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Prevention, recognition, and management of nursing complications in the intraoperative and postoperative surgical patient.

Wadlund DL

Surgical Specialists, 1351 Julieanna Drive, West Chester, PA 19380, USA. dlw522@aol.com

A review of the literature focusing on postoperative complications reveals that the best available tools to the medical and surgical teams are recognition and prevention. This article highlights the more common postsurgical adverse events and discusses methods for preventing and treating these occurrences.

Published 15 May 2006 in Nurs Clin North Am, 41(2): 151-71, v.
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