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Perioperative Care

Use this guide to find information resources about perioperative care including books, reports and journal articles.

Last updated: 17/09/2024

Key Resources

British Anaesthetic and Recovery Nurses Association (no date) Clinical Practice. 
Guideline for perioperative care for people with diabetes mellitus undergoing elective and emergency surgery. London: CPOC.
NHS England (2023) National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs)

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2020) Perioperative care in adults. NICE guideline [NG180].

Please check that guidance is applicable for your country. NICE guidance is officially England and Wales only.

Royal College of Anaesthetists: Guidance and resources
We would like to thank the RCN Perioperative member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

Books

The Royal Marsden manual online
  • Chapter 16 covers Perioperative care.
Book cover Al-Shaikh B and Stacey S (2024) Essentials of equipment in anaesthesia, critical care and peri-operative medicine. 6th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.
Book cover Craig A and Hatfield A (2021) The complete recovery room book. 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book cover Freedman R, Herbert L, O'Donnell A, Ross N, Wilson D Iain and Allman K G (2022) Oxford handbook of anaesthesia. 5th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Image of The checklist manifesto book cover Gawande A (2011) The checklist manifesto: how to get things right. London: Profile Books.
Image of oxford handbook of perioperative practice Hughes S J (2023) Oxford handbook of perioperative practice. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ljungqvist O, Francis N K, Urman R D (eds.) (2020) Enhanced recovery after surgery: a complete guide to optimizing outcomes. Cham: Springer.
MacKenzie C R, Cornell R N, Memtsoudis S G (eds.) (2020) Perioperative care of the orthopedic patient. 2nd edn. Cham: Springer.
Image of PudnerÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥™s Nursing the Surgical Patient book Peate I and Jay M (eds.)(2021) Pudner’s Nursing the Surgical Patient. 4th ed. London: Elsevier.
Image of Perioperative quality improvement book cover Peden C J, Fleisher L A and Englesbe M (2023) Perioperative quality improvement. Philadelphia: Elsevier.
Book cover Odom-Forren J (2024) Drain's perianesthesia nursing: a critical care approach. 8th edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Book cover Rodger D, Henshaw K, Rawling P and Miller S (eds.) (2022) Fundamentals of operating department practice. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Journals

Journal Cover Journals of interest for perioperative care. Use these links to see details of availability.
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