Surgical technology principles and practice
A guide that delivers the best patient care before, during, and after surgery. It covers the topics and procedures from a variety of surgical disciplines you'll use in practice. It features chapters on technology, postoperative recovery, energy sources, and more.
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St Louis, Missouri.
Elsevier
2013
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| Edition: | 6th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The surgical technologist
- Communication and teamwork
- Law, documentation, and professional ethics
- The health care facility
- Disaster preparedness and response
- The patient
- Diagnostic and assessment procedures
- Environmental hazards
- Microbes and the process of infection
- The principles and practice of aseptic technique
- Decontamination, sterilization, and disinfection
- Surgical instruments
- Perioperative pharmacology
- Anesthesia and physiological monitoring
- Postanesthesia recovery
- Death and dying
- Physics and informationn technology
- Energy sources in surgery
- Moving, handling, and positioning the surgical patient
- Surgical skin prep and draping
- Case planning and intraoperative routines
- Management of the surgical wound
- General surgery
- Minimally invasive endoscopic and robotic-assisted surgery
- Gynecological and obstetrical surgery
- Genitourinary surgery
- Opthalmic surgery
- Surgery of the ear, nose, pharynx, and larynx
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery
- Orthopedic surgery
- Peripheral vascular surgery
- Thoracic and pulmonary surgery
- Cardiac surgery
- Pediatric surgery
- Neurosurgery
- Emergency trauma surgery.