Showing posts with label Peri-operative. Show all posts
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Monday, 17 September 2012

Peri-operative risks


In peri-operative care, which one of the following interventions reduces the risk of wound infections by 80%, the risk of requiring secondary surgery by 70% and therisk of pulmonary complications by 80%.

a) Screening for and treating MRSA colonisation
b) Avoiding inadvertent peri-operative hypothermia
c) Stopping smoking eight weeks pre-operatively
d) Intraoperative goal directed therapy
e) Preoperative safety briefing