Unit I: Overview of Perioperative Safety
1. Essential Components for a Patient Safety Strategy
2. Initiatives to Improve Patient Safety
3. Use of MEDMARX Data for the Support and Development of Perioperative Medication Policy
4. Competence, Nursing Practice, and Safe Patient Care
Unit II: Patient Safety
5. Perioperative Safe Medication Use: A Focused Review
6. Fire Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Perioperative Fires Can Occur Everywhere
7. Bloodless Surgery and Patient Safety Issues
8. Perioperative Patient Safety and Procedural Sedation
9. Incidence of Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Surgical Patient Population and Prophylactic Measures to Reduce Occurrence
10. Preventative Measures for Wrong Site, Wrong Person and Wrong Procedure Errors in the Perioperative Setting
11. To Count or Not to Count: A Surgical Misadventure
12. Anesthesia and Perioperative Safety
13. Preventing Surgical Site Infections
14. Prevention of Positioning Injuries
15. Normothermia Management: Prevention of Harm from Perioperative Hypothermia
16. Electrosurgery
Unit III: Workplace Safety
17. Workplace Safety Current Issues & Trends
18. Hazards from Surgical Smoke: Decreasing Your Risk
19. Bloodborne Pathogens
20. Laser Risks and Preventive Measures for Staff
21. Preventing Back Injuries: Patient Transfer and Mobility
22. Latex Allergy
23. Minimizing Radiation Exposure
24. Infectious Disease Exposure
25. Dealing with Disruptive Behavior in the Perioperative Setting
Unit IV: Looking Ahead
26. Safety in the Perioperative Setting: Vendor Support
27. Using Human Factors to Balance Your Operating Room
