Vascular Surgery

By Macvittie, Beth Ann MacVittie, Beth Ann MacVittie RN MS CNOR

This excellent text presents all the essential background information for a thorough understanding of the nurse's role in each procedure of vascular surgery. Standards of patient care are discussed within the nursing process framework, providing relevantinformation such as health history, physical exam, diagnostic tests, preoperative nursing care, anesthesia, patient teaching, and postoperative management. The heart of the text focuses on more than a dozen surgical procedures, accompanied by full-colour illustrations clearly illustrating key steps of each procedure.

- Contains comprehensive coverage of the nurse's role in vascular surgery to provide valuable information for perioperative nurses in all roles and at all levels of expertise.
- Provides an overview of the surgical team, instruments and equipment, anatomy and physiology, and perioperative nursing care information that applies to all procedures.
- Describes more than a dozen detailed vascular surgery procedures.
- Includes full-color illustrations of key procedural steps to assist nurses in preparing for vascular surgeries.
- Addresses pre-, intra-, and postoperative care for each intervention so nurses can better understand and respond to patient needs at all stages.
- Includes special boxes containing RNFA considerations for each surgical procedure.
- Highlights patient teaching to stress the importance of self-care and assist nurses in identifying teaching topics for specific interventions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815170319
• ISBN13: 9780815170310
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and under
• Grade Range: Preschool to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Vascular Surgery

An excellent, well written informative book on vascular surgeries in the O.R. MacVittie has done her homework and shares her many years of nursing experience with the reader. Great for the experienced operating room nurse or scrub tech as well as the beginners!