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Principles and Practice
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Fifth Edition
By
Joanna Fuller, BA, BSN, RN, RGN, MPH, Emergency Medical Coordinator, Medical Emergency Relief International, UK-Global
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
1. The Surgical Technologist
2. The Patient in Surgery
3. Death and Dying
4. Law and Ethics
5. Introduction
to the Health Facility
6. Communication and Teamwork
7. Microbes and The Process of Infection
8. Decontamination,
Disinfection, and Sterilization
9. Aseptic Technique
10. Transporting, Transferring, and Positioning
11. Surgical
Skin Preparation and Draping
12. Anesthsia, Anesthetics, and Physiological Monitoring
13. Postoperative Recovery and Patient
Discharge
14. Perioperative Pharmacology
15. Environmental Hazards
16. Case Planning and Intraoperative Routines
17. The Surgical Wound
18. Biomechanics and Computer Technology
19. Energy Sources in Surgery
20. Diagnostic
and Assessment Procedures
21. Minimally Invasive, Endoscopic, and Robotic Assisted Surgery
22. Surgical Instruments
23.
General Surgery
24. Gynecological and Obstetrical Surgery
25. Genitourinary Surgery
26. Ophthalmic Surgery
27.
Surgery of the Ear, Nose, Pharynx and Larynx
28. OralMaxillofacial Trauma Surgery
29. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
30.
Orthopedic Surgery
31. Peripheral Vascular Surgery
32. Thoracic and Pulmonary Surgery
33. Cardiac Surgery
34.
Pediatric Surgery
35. Neurosurgery
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Hardbound, 1152 pages, publication date: OCT-2009
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-6035-2
ISBN-10: 1-4160-6035-9
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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