Patient Safety in Plastic Surgery

Protect Your Patients With This Definitive Reference on Patient Safety!
Patient safety is an overriding concern in all surgery. In plastic surgery, where many of the procedures are elective,
patient safety and avoiding complications becomes a first priority. Well trained, skilled plastic surgeons can
distinguish themselves from less qualified physicians by stressing their training, commitment to excellence, and most
of all뾲heir emphasis on patient safety.

All of the Information You Need In One Valuable Resource
Until now, information about patient safety was scattered in the literature. There was no one resource to turn to for
comprehensive information on the full range of topics encountered in a surgical practice. This book solves that problem
by covering all of the important patient safety topics in one valuable resource.

The full spectrum of patient safety issues is comprehensively discussed with special emphasis on the clinical issues
pertinent to plastic surgery. This book is authoritative, timely, practical, and user friendly with advice that will
directly impact your practice. It provides essential information that is critical to patient care and covers the topics
deemed most important and most troubling to plastic surgeons when surveyed about patient safety. Problems covered are
regularly encountered ?not rare ?events. Solutions, guidelines, protocols, and helpful tips and tricks are scattered
throughout.

Comprehensive Coverage
Coverage is comprehensive and begins with chapters devoted to the primary safety concerns most often identified by
plastic surgeons, such as DVTs, surgical site infections, sleep apnea, and anesthesia safety. Beyond these obvious
problems, are major safety issues that often fall off the radar. These are critical to patient comfort and safety, but
they do not always receive the attention they merit. Chapters on hypothermia, nausea and vomiting, proper patient
positioning, and screening and management of medical co-morbidities related to safety discuss these safety issues.
Other important chapters focus on the darker side of safety, such as the identification and avoidance of patients who
are poor psychological candidates for surgery or the legal aspects of safety.

Renowned Authors!
Dr. V. Leroy Young, is a well known plastic surgeon and Dr. Richard Botney is a noted anesthesiologist. Both are
authorities on patient safety. They offer readers the advantage of their combined experience along with that of a multi-
disciplinary group of experts on the different topics covered.

Key Features:

Practical advice to safeguard your patients
Tables, protocols, and guidelines for day-to-day practice
Written by experts in the field
Comprehensive coverage of important patient safety topics
Available February 2009. Hardcover. Approximately 350 pages