Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION TO BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION
- 1 BMET as a career
- 2 Patient safety
- 3 In the workplace
- 4 Electrodes, sensors, signals, and noise
- 5 The heart
- 6 Cardiac assist devices
- 7 Blood pressure
- 8 Respiration and respiratory therapy
- 9 The brain and its activity
- 10 The intensive care unit
- 11 The operating room
- 12 Imaging
- 13 Clinical laboratory equipment
- 14 Intravenous pumps and other pumps
- 15 Miscellaneous devices and topics
- Index
11 - The operating room
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- INTRODUCTION TO BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION
- 1 BMET as a career
- 2 Patient safety
- 3 In the workplace
- 4 Electrodes, sensors, signals, and noise
- 5 The heart
- 6 Cardiac assist devices
- 7 Blood pressure
- 8 Respiration and respiratory therapy
- 9 The brain and its activity
- 10 The intensive care unit
- 11 The operating room
- 12 Imaging
- 13 Clinical laboratory equipment
- 14 Intravenous pumps and other pumps
- 15 Miscellaneous devices and topics
- Index
Summary
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1 list and describe the characteristics of surgical lights
2 list and describe the two functions of an anesthesiologist or CRNA (monitor patient and deliver medications)
3 list and describe the four functions of anesthesia
4 list and describe the staff in an OR
5 list and describe the items that must be worn in the OR
6 list and describe the four types of surgical procedures
7 list and describe the many surgical specialties
8 list and describe the two common methods of equipment sterilization
9 list and describe the stress related to the operating room environment
10 list and describe where patients go immediately after surgery
11 list and describe the function of the following pieces of OR equipment: depth-of-anesthesia monitors, operating microscopes, robots, smoke evacuators, patient warmers, blood and fluid warmers, operating room tables
12 list and describe laparoscopic surgery and the devices used in it
13 list and describe the functions and parts of an electrosurgical unit
14 define the term LASER and describe some common medical LASERs
Introduction
The operating room (OR) in a hospital is a unique environment that contains a great deal of equipment as well as many protocols and rules that impact a BMET. Many types of surgery are performed here. Operating rooms may be located in a hospital, in a free-standing surgery center, or in a doctor's office. BMETs must have a solid and accurate understanding of the operating room in order to perform their job effectively.
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- Introduction to Biomedical InstrumentationThe Technology of Patient Care, pp. 155 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009