Clinical Issues Podcasts:

Volume 108, Issue 5, p557-564

Key words: walking, patient mobility, fall risk assessment.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aorn.12395]

"This Back to Basics article addresses patient assessment concerns, identifies a variety of evidence‐based interventions that can prevent or mitigate perioperative patient temperature changes, and provides basic steps for perioperative RNs to follow to help prevent perioperative hypothermia in their patients."

Spruce

Volume 108, Issue 5

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aorn.12389]

The aim of this Continuing Education article is to "provide the learner with information about the effects of surgical smoke and airborne bacteria on surgical team members, patients, and OR air quality and about the available air cleaning technologies for reducing OR air contamination."

Barnes, Volume 108, Issue 5

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aorn.12391]

In this episode, Laurie Saletnik, Editor-in-Chief of AORN Journal, discusses highlights of the November 2018 issue of AORN Journal (Volume 108, Issue 5).

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18780369/2018/108/5]

This article provides an overview of the updated guideline for sterile technique.

Volume 108, Issue 4, pP10-12

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aorn.12409]

Clinical Issues: Volume 108, Issue 4, p449-458

Key words: phacoemulsification, sterilization, instrument processing, steam sterilization, hand pieces.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aorn.12370]

Clinical Issues: Volume 108, Issue 4, p449-458

Key words: immediate‐use steam sterilization, terminal steam sterilization, sterility assurance level, gravity‐displacement cycle, dynamic air‐removal cycle.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aorn.12370]

Clinical Issues: Volume 108, Issue 4, p449-458

Key words: surgical instrument processing, cadavers, sterilization, embalming, formaldehyde.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aorn.12370]

Performing abdominal preoperative patient skin antisepsis on a patient undergoing stoma reversal. Volume 108, Issue 4, p449-458.

"This article focuses on key points of the guideline that address preparation of items for high‐level disinfection, use of high‐level disinfectants, health care personnel safety, and documentation. "

Volume 108, Issue 4, p399-410

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aorn.12373]