Preoperative assessment / Melanie Oakley and Joanne Bratchell
Perioperative care / Diane Gilmour
Day surgery / Melanie Oakley
Perioperative stress and anxiety in the surgical patient / Melanie Oakley and Rosie Pudner
Wound healing in the surgical patient / Rosie Pudner
Nutrition and the surgical patient / Helen Ord and Melanie Baker
Altered body image and the surgical patient / Adele Atkinson and Rosie Pudner
Concepts of pain and the surgical patient / Sharon Kitcatt
Discharge planning following surgery / Rosie Castle and Teresa Rooney-Kaymakci
Patients requiring neurosurgery / Christine Eberhardie
Patients requiring ophthalmic surgery / Brigid Knight, Suzanne Hart
Patients requiring surgery to the ear, nose, and throat / Julie Wain
Patients requiring thyroid surgery / Rosie Pudner
Care of the patient requiring cardiac interventions and surgery / Christine Spiers, Kevin Barrett
Care of patients requiring vascular surgery / Emma Gardner
Patients requiring upper gastrointestinal surgery / Melanie Seymour ; with a contribution by Nuala Davison
Patients requiring colorectal surgery / Stephanie Woodward
Patients requiring surgery on the renal and urinary tract / Janice Minter
Patients requiring surgery on the male reproductive system / Aoife Donoghue
Patients requiring gynaecological surgery / Jacky Cotton
Patients requiring breast surgery / Elisabeth Grimsey
Care of patients requiring vascular surgery / Shelagh Murray Hall
Patients requiring orthopaedic surgery / Nicola L. Whiteing
Patients requiring plastic surgery / Adele Atkinson, Mary Smith.
Nursing the surgical patient. ISBN 9780702030628. Published by Baillière Tindall in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.