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Main description:
Deliver the best patient care before, during, and after surgery with straightforward information to guide you through each step. Student-friendly features including chapter outlines and summaries, review questions, technique boxes, and a full-color design make even complex material easier to understand. Revised to match the latest AST Core Curriculum guidelines, this new edition covers the topics and procedures from a variety of surgical disciplines you'll use in practice. Plus, new and revised chapters on technology, postoperative recovery, energy sources, and much more keep you at the cutting edge of the field.
Contents:
Part I: Surgical Technology Principles
1. The Surgical Technologist
2. Communication and Teamwork
3. Law, Documentation and Professional Ethics
4. The Healthcare Facility
- Perioperative Environment
- Facility Departments and Functions
- Healthcare Administration
5. NEW! Disaster Preparedness and Response
6. The Patient
7. Diagnostic and Assessment Procedures
8. Environmental Hazards
9. Microbes and the Process of Infection
10. The Principles and Practice of Aseptic Technique
11. Decontamination, Sterilization, and Disinfection
12. Surgical Instruments
13. Perioperative Pharmacology
14. Anesthesia and Physiological Monitoring
15. Post Anesthesia Recovery
16. Death and Dying
17. Physics and Information Technology
18. Energy Sources in Surgery
19. Moving, Handling, and Positioning the Surgical Patient
20. Surgical Skin Prep and Draping
21. Case Planning and Intraoperative Roles
22. Management of the Surgical Wound
Part II: Surgical Technology Practice
23. General Surgery
- Abdominal Wall
- Gastrointestinal
- Surgery of the Biliary System, Liver, Pancreas, and Spleen
- Breast Surgery
24. Minimally Invasive Endoscopic and Robotic-Assisted Surgery
25. Gynecological and Obstetrical Surgery
- Gynecological Surgery
- Obstetrical Surgery
26.Genitourinary Surgery
27. Ophthalmic Surgery
28. Surgery of the Ear, Nose, Pharynx, and Larynx
- The Ear
- Surgery of the Nasal Cavity, Oropharynx, and Larynx
- The Neck
29. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
30. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
31. Orthopedic Surgery
32. Peripheral Vascular Surgery
33. Thoracic and Pulmonary Surgery
34. Cardiac Surgery
35. Pediatric Surgery
36. Neurosurgery
37. NEW! Trauma Surgery
Glossary Index
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