British Anaesthetic and Recovery Nurses Association (no date) Clinical Practice. 

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Guideline for perioperative care for people with diabetes mellitus undergoing elective and emergency surgery. London: CPOC.

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NHS England (2023) National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs)

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National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2020) Perioperative care in adults. NICE guideline [NG180].

Please check that guidance is applicable for your country. NICE guidance is officially England and Wales only.

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Royal College of Anaesthetists: Guidance and resources

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We would like to thank the RCN Perioperative member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

The Royal Marsden manual online

• Chapter 16 covers Perioperative care.
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Al-Shaikh B and Stacey S (2024) Essentials of equipment in anaesthesia, critical care and peri-operative medicine. 6th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

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Craig A and Hatfield A (2021) The complete recovery room book. 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Freedman R, Herbert L, O'Donnell A, Ross N, Wilson D Iain and Allman K G (2022) Oxford handbook of anaesthesia. 5th edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Gawande A (2011) The checklist manifesto: how to get things right. London: Profile Books.

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Hughes S J (2023) Oxford handbook of perioperative practice. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Ljungqvist O, Francis N K, Urman R D (eds.) (2020) Enhanced recovery after surgery: a complete guide to optimizing outcomes. Cham: Springer.

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MacKenzie C R, Cornell R N, Memtsoudis S G (eds.) (2020) Perioperative care of the orthopedic patient. 2nd edn. Cham: Springer.

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Peate I and Jay M (eds.)(2021) Pudner’s Nursing the Surgical Patient. 4th ed. London: Elsevier.

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Peden C J, Fleisher L A and Englesbe M (2023) Perioperative quality improvement. Philadelphia: Elsevier.

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Odom-Forren J (2024) Drain's perianesthesia nursing: a critical care approach. 8th edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

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Rodger D, Henshaw K, Rawling P and Miller S (eds.) (2022) Fundamentals of operating department practice. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Use these links to see details of books the RCN libraries hold on each topic.

• Perioperative care
• Preoperative assessment
• Recovery room and post-anaesthetic care

Use these links to see details of journal articles on each topic.

• Perioperative care
• Post operative care
• Preoperative assessment
• Surgical wards
• Theatre nursing

Journals of interest for perioperative care. Use these links to see details of availability.

• AORN
• Journal of Perioperative Practice
• Open access journal:
  Perioperative Medicine