RT Book, Section
A1 Henry, Desmond B.
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 6721150
T1 Chapter 112. Perioperative Care
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6721150
RD 2024/04/23
AB The  term  perioperative  care  refers  to  all  the  clinical  activities  that  take  place  around  a  surgical  intervention,  from  the  preoperative  assessment  to  the  postoperative  discharge.1-3  In  modern  institutions,  perioperative  care  is  performed  in  a  defined  physical  area  that  usually  accommodates  scheduling,  admission,  preoperative  preparation,  the  procedure  itself  (the  operating  room  or  a  procedural  suite),  recovery  from  the  procedure  (phase  I  and  II),  and  discharge.  Support  services—including  sterile  processing,  materials  management,  the  pharmacy,  the  laboratory,  pathology,  diagnostic  imaging—are  frequently  adjacent.  The  success  and  subsequent  demand  for  new  procedures  such  as  cardiac  catheterization  or  endoscopy,  which  are  not  strictly  surgical  but  require  expertise  and  equipment  similar  to  surgery,  have  created  a  need  to  duplicate  existing  perioperative  resources  in  other  areas.  The  same  principles  that  are  detailed  here  for  surgical  procedures  apply  to  these  procedural  areas.