Since the SOBECC´s foundation  in 1991, our successive directorates had always kept the firm intention to extend the performance of the entity, in order to spread the best practices of Perioperative Nursing from north to south of Brazil. It was with this objective that appeared the idea to elaborate and to register recommendations for the professionals of the Operative Block, as it happens  in - Association Operation Room Nurses -(AORN), that  possess written and standardized processes regarding the activities of the Nursing in the Surgical Center, the Pos-Anesthetic Recovery and the  Materials and Sterilization Center

The challenge however, was to write procedures that reflected the reality of Brazil, which was surpassed with great success due to the contribution of the SOBECC partners  and to the devotion of a  very experienced reporters team in the practices  and the Perioperative Nursing education. Thus, in 2000 was born, the first Brazilian reference in this area: the SOBECC Recommended Practices. However, since then it was clearly understood that it would not only be enough to describe procedures, but also to bring up to date them at least to each two years, due to the speed that health services incorporate new services and technologies. Therefore, with this commitment, had come subsequent editions of the SOBECC Recommended Practices that now culminates with the launching of this fourth edition, totally revised and extended by a group of specialists, masters and doctors who follows carefully the national and international scientific production in the area of Nursing in Surgical Center, Recovery Pos-Anesthetic and Center of Materials and Sterilization.

More than being a victory of a great objective, the fourth edition of this manual consolidates the SOBECC role as diffusing the best practices in the Operative Block and, the most important, helping to construct an uniformity in a safer and most human care assistance, as well as the health care articles manipulation whenever will be the patient admitted in a hospital for the accomplishment of an anesthetic-surgical procedure. After all, this is the goal of our work. We hope you will take a good advantage of this publication and make you use it as your ' bedside book ' in the Operative Block.

Check here, the index of the RECOMMENDED PRACTICES - 4th edition

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COORDINATORS
João Francisco Possari, Janete Akamine e Aparecida de Cassia Giani Peniche

SURGICAL CENTER
Maria Lucia Fernandez Suriano, Tânia Regina Zeni Diniz, Rosilene Geraldo Yamamura e Renata Barco de Oliveira

MATERIAL AND STERILIZATION CENTER
Marcia Hitomi Takeiti, Márcia Cristina Oliveira Pereira e Lígia Garrido Calicchio

POS-ANESTHETIC RECOVERY
Ana Lucia Siqueira Costa, Ernane de Sousa Almeida e Rita de Cássia Burgos de Oliveira Leite

TECHNICAL REVISORIES
Aparecida de Cassia Giani Peniche, Estela Regina Ferraz Bianchi e Arlete Silva

• Page 69: Types of packs and matchding sterilization processes
  • Type pack - Surgical paper degree - where reads Ionizing Radiation NO the correct is YES
  • Type pack - Tyvek - - where reads humid heat YES the correct is NO (check herebelow):

  

• Page 194: item for physical area , where reads page 179 the correct is 118, as per below:

  2. Physical Area

  According to the Health Authorities (Brazil, 2002), "SRPA" belongs to the physical facility of the Surgical Center Unit (SC) and, so, has the same architectural caractheristics described in table of page 118.

Previous Practices:

• 1st edition, elaborated in the management 1999-2001
• 2nd edition, elaborated in 2003 and launched during the 6th Congress
• 3rd edition, elaborated in 2005 and launched during the 7th Congress