Surgical technology for the surgical technologist: a positive care approach
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Clifton Park, New York : Delmar Cengage Learning, ©2014.
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Overview: Welcome to the leading text in surgical technology - the most up-to-date, the most trusted, and the most comprehensive. Surgical Technology For The Surgical Technologist: A Positive Care Approach, Fourth Edition is your trusted source for comprehensive foundational surgical technology information. This streamlined new edition gets right to the essential topics such as equipment and supplies, operative preparation, practical and technical considerations, and postoperative considerations. With updated real-life scenarios, medical artwork, live surgery images, and numerous tools to support learning, this text is the ultimate resource for helping you anticipate the patient's and surgeon's needs before, during, and after a surgical procedure. Full coverage of essential procedures, this text provides you with the information needed to successfully apply the guidelines found in the Sixth Edition Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology, published by the Association of Surgical Technologists.

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Overview: Welcome to the leading text in surgical technology - the most up-to-date, the most trusted, and the most comprehensive. Surgical Technology For The Surgical Technologist: A Positive Care Approach, Fourth Edition is your trusted source for comprehensive foundational surgical technology information. This streamlined new edition gets right to the essential topics such as equipment and supplies, operative preparation, practical and technical considerations, and postoperative considerations. With updated real-life scenarios, medical artwork, live surgery images, and numerous tools to support learning, this text is the ultimate resource for helping you anticipate the patient's and surgeon's needs before, during, and after a surgical procedure. Full coverage of essential procedures, this text provides you with the information needed to successfully apply the guidelines found in the Sixth Edition Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology, published by the Association of Surgical Technologists.
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Frey, K. B., & Ross, T. (2014). Surgical technology for the surgical technologist: a positive care approach. Fourth edition. Clifton Park, New York, Delmar Cengage Learning.

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
5050 |a List of tables -- List of techniques -- Preface -- Contributors -- Reviewers of proof chapters -- Reviewers -- Technical reviewers -- How to use this book -- Section 1: Introduction To Surgical Technology: -- Orientation To Surgical Technology: -- History of surgery -- Surgery today -- Surgical specialties -- History of surgical technology -- Field of surgical technology: -- Working conditions -- Personal characteristics -- Problem-solving skills -- Surgical team members -- Three phases of surgical case management -- Nonsterile surgical team members -- Sterile surgical team members: -- Preoperative case management -- Intraoperative case management -- Postoperative case management -- Surgical technology education and certification -- Surgical technologist as a professional: -- Professionalism -- Professional organization: -- Surgical technologist's lifestyle -- Roles and competencies -- Job descriptions for the surgical technologist -- Career development and opportunities -- Clinical ladder program -- Employability skills: -- Resume preparation -- Communication skills and teamwork: -- Communication -- Teamwork -- Surgical conscience -- Health care facilities organization and management -- Hospital organization: -- Hospital departments and interdepartmental communication -- Financial considerations and reimbursement -- Professional management: -- Professional organizations -- Credentialing organizations -- Related professional organizations -- Legal Concepts, Risk Management, And Ethical Issues: -- Legal issues: -- Definitions of general legal terms -- Definitions of legal doctrines and traditional principles -- Torts -- Intentional torts -- Unintentional torts: -- Consent for surgery: a basic right -- Informed consent: -- Documentation -- Sentinel event/incident reports -- Advance directives -- AHA patient care partnership -- Risk management and liability: -- Medical errors -- Safe Medical Device Act -- Managing patient and employee injuries -- Malpractice insurance -- Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) -- Ethical and moral issues: -- Moral principles -- Elements of ethical decision making -- Professional codes of conduct -- Scope of practice: -- Credentialing -- Accreditation and core curriculum -- Surgical Patient: -- Surgical technologist and the surgical patient -- Physical, psychological, and social, and spiritual needs of the surgical patient -- Understanding the surgical patient as a human being: -- Causes of surgical intervention -- Patient responses to illness and hospitalization -- Death and dying -- Prioritizing needs: Maslow's hierarchy -- Sample application of Maslow's hierarchy: -- Cultural and religious influences -- Sample application: using religious and cultural information in the operating room -- Special Populations: -- Introduction -- Pediatric patients: -- Monitoring the pediatric patient -- Shock -- Fluids and electrolytes -- Infection -- Metabolic an nutritional response -- Trauma -- General principles of pediatric emergency treatment -- Patients with obesity: -- Review of surgical considerations -- Specific considerations of bariatric surgery -- Patients with diabetes: -- Complications associated with diabetes -- Care of the patient with diabetes in surgery -- Pregnant patients: -- Considerations when caring for pregnant patients -- Anesthesia -- Intraoperative considerations for the surgical technologist -- Immunocompromised patients: -- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Physically challenged or sensory impaired patients -- Isolation patients -- Geriatric patients -- Substance abuse patients -- Trauma patients -- Golden Hour and trauma system -- Kinematics: -- Blunt trauma -- Penetrating trauma -- Trauma scoring -- Considerations for the surgical technologist: -- Preservation of evidence -- Hypothermia -- Infection -- Preparation of the case: -- Post-traumatic stress disorder patient -- Physical Environment And Safety Standards: -- Physical design of the surgery department -- Areas of the operating room: -- Instrument room -- Utility and decontamination room -- Physical components of the operative suite: -- Equipment -- Standard operating room furniture -- Surfaces in the operating room -- Cabinets and doors -- Doors -- Ventilation system -- Substerile area -- Direct support services: -- Preoperative or "same-day" check-in unit -- Preoperative holding area -- Postanesthesia care unit -- Laboratory department -- Radiology department -- Pathology department -- Environmental services -- Central sterile supply and processing -- Hazards and regulatory agencies -- Safety considerations: -- Surgical lights -- Noise in the operating room -- Ergonomics and safety considerations -- Fire hazards and safety -- Other safety guidelines -- Fire safety guidelines -- Electrical hazards: -- Electrical current -- Preventing electrical burns -- Static electricity -- Ionizing radiation: -- Protection of the surgical patient -- Protection of the surgical technologist -- Biological hazards and safety considerations: -- Standard precautions -- Causes of injury leading to exposure in the operative environment -- Strategies for exposure prevention -- Hazardous waste disposal -- Management of exposure: -- Treatment -- Risk assessment -- Prophylaxis for HIV -- Laser and electrosurgical plume -- Latex allergy -- Chemical hazards and safety considerations: -- Waste anesthetic gases -- Polymethyl methacrylate -- Formalin -- Ethylene oxide -- Glutaraldehyde -- Section 2: Principles And Practice Of Surgical Technology: -- Biomedical Science: -- Introduction -- Computers: -- Hardware -- Software -- Word processing -- Internet basics: -- Accessing the internet -- Importing images from the internet -- Surgical applications: -- Scheduling surgical patients -- Surgeon's preference card -- Patient charts -- Surgical records -- Sterile processing -- Electricity: -- Basic principles of electricity -- Monopolar electrosurgical units -- Bipolar electrosurgical units -- Accessories to electrosurgery -- Advantages of electrosurgery -- Hazards to the patient and surgical team -- Surgical applications: -- X-ray machine -- Endoscopes -- Robotics -- Lasers -- Four interactions with tissue -- Laser parts -- CO2 laser -- Nd:YAG laser -- Holmium: YAG laser -- Krypton laser -- Excimer laser -- Argon laser -- Laser in endoscopy -- Surgical robots: -- Terminology -- da Vinci robotic system -- Advantages of remote manipulation -- Manipulators -- Voice-activated control system, hearing and vision -- Decontamination and sterilization of robotic: -- Components.
5050 |a Preventing Perioperative Disease Transmission: -- Pathogens and infection: -- Human-microbe relationships -- Pathogens associated with surgical site infection: -- Bacteria -- Tuberculosis -- Viruses -- Emerging infectious diseases -- Prions -- Parasites -- Fungi -- Methods of transmission: -- Precautions -- Sources of surgical site infections -- Factors that increase risk of surgical site infection -- Introduction -- Basic terminology -- Classification of patient care items -- AST recommended standards of practice applicable to decontamination and sterilization -- Disinfection principles and disinfecting agents: -- Disinfectant efficiency -- High-level disinfectant compounds -- Intermediate-level disinfectant compounds -- Environmental decontamination: -- Environmental services -- Surgical instrument decontamination process -- Sterilization principles and processes: -- Instrument preparation and wrapping -- Stream sterilization -- Hydrogen peroxide gas plasma -- Liquid chemical sterilization processes -- Ionizing radiation -- Alternative sterilization methods -- Administrative controls of sterilization processes -- Event-related sterility -- Surgical conscience -- Principle 1: Sterile field is created for each surgical procedure -- Principle 2: Sterile team members must be appropriately attired prior to entering the sterile field -- Principle 3: Movement in and around the sterile field must not compromise the sterile field: -- Sterile to sterile -- Nonsterile to nonsterile -- Hemostasis, Emergency Situations, And All-Hazards Preparation: -- Hemostasis and blood replacement: -- Factors affecting hemostasis -- Mechanical methods -- Tourniquets -- Thermal hemostasis -- Pharmacological agents -- Blood loss -- Blood replacement -- Hemolytic transfusion reactions -- Indications of emergency situations -- Objectives and priorities in emergency situations -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: -- Cardiac arrest in the surgical setting -- Malignant hyperthermia -- Disseminated intravascular coagulation -- Anaphylactic reactions -- All-hazards preparation: -- Natural disasters -- Man-made disasters -- Personal disaster planning -- Local/community/regional response -- Federal emergency response -- Health care facility emergency response -- Medical office EAP -- Immediate response to an all-hazards event -- Surgical Pharmacology And Anesthesia: -- Pharmacology: -- Drug sources -- Drug properties: -- Pharmacodynamics -- Medication action: -- Agonists -- Synergistic agents -- Additive agents -- Antagonists -- Therapeutic action -- Mediation effects -- Pharmacokinetics: -- Absorption -- Distribution -- Biotransformation -- Excretion -- Routes of administration -- Drug standards -- Drug forms -- Legal drug classifications: -- Controlled substances -- Prescribed medications -- Over-the-counter medications -- Alternative medications -- Medication information: -- Names -- Classifications -- Actions -- Indications -- Dosage -- Medication calculations: -- Concentration -- Dose -- Application -- Calculating medication dosages: -- Concentration -- Cumulative dose and conversion -- Percentages -- Conversion of temperature -- Units of measure: -- Metric system -- Metric, household, and apothecary systems of measurement -- Abbreviations related to medication administration -- Drug-handling techniques -- Medication identification -- Medications in the operating room -- Medications for use with specific surgical specialties: -- Obstetric and gynecologic surgery -- Orthopedic surgery -- Cardiovascular surgery -- Neurosurgery -- Ophthalmic surgery -- Hemostasis and blood replacement: -- Factors affecting hemostasis -- Control of bleeding during surgery -- Chemical methods of hemostasis -- Bone wax -- Absorbable gelation sponge -- Microfibrillar collagen -- Oxidized cellulose -- Silver nitrate -- Epinephrine -- Thrombin -- Blood loss -- Blood components -- Handling of blood replacement components -- Autotransfusion -- Methods and techniques of anesthetic administration -- General anesthesia: -- Depth of general anesthesia -- Phases of general anesthesia -- Advantages of general anesthesia -- Risks and complications associated with general anesthesia -- Cricoid pressure -- Laryngospasm and bronchospasm -- Malignant hyperthermia -- Pseudocholinesterase deficiency syndrome -- Allergic reaction -- Shock -- Cardiac dysrhythmias -- Cardiac arrest -- Anesthetic agents: -- Inhalation agents -- Oxygen -- Nitrous oxide -- Volatile agents -- Intravenous agents: -- Induction agents -- Dissociative agents -- Opiate/opioids -- Narcotic antagonists: -- Benzodiazepines -- Neuromuscular blockage -- Other agents commonly used during anesthesia administration: -- Antimuscarinic agents -- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs -- Gastric acid management -- Lubricants -- Antiemetics -- Solutions used in the operating room setting -- Adjuncts to general anesthesia: -- Induced hypothermia -- Induced hypotension -- Neuroleptanalgesia and neuroleptanesthesia -- Nerve conduction blockade: -- Nerve conduction blocking agents -- Amino ester group -- Adjunctive agents to nerve conduction blockade -- Topical anesthesia -- Local anesthesia: -- Monitored anesthesia care -- Regional anesthesia: -- Nerve plexus block -- Bier block -- Spinal block -- Epidural anesthesia -- Nontraditional anesthesia options -- Anesthesia equipment: -- Anesthesia machine -- Airway delivery/maintenance devices -- Hypothermia and hyperthermia devices -- Monitoring devices: -- Electrocardiogram -- Blood pressure monitor -- Arterial and venous catheterization -- Temperature monitors -- Pulse oximeter -- Bispectral index (BIS) monitor -- SARA -- Stethoscope -- Doppler -- Peripheral nerve stimulator -- Arterial blood gases -- Vital signs: -- Temperature -- Pulse -- Respiration -- Blood pressure -- Team member roles during anesthesia administration -- Preoperative visits -- Preoperative routine-all types of anesthesia: -- Team member duties during general anesthesia -- Team member duties during spinal anesthesia -- Postanesthesia care -- Instrumentation, Equipment, And Supplies: -- Instrumentation -- Classifications: -- Cutting/dissecting -- Grasping/holding -- Clamping/occluding -- Retracting/viewing -- Probing -- Dilating -- Suturing -- Suctioning -- Microinstrumentation -- Instrument care and handling -- Types of instrument sets -- Laparotomy set: -- Instrument list/count sheet -- Specialty equipment: -- Endoscopes -- Powered instruments -- Microscopes -- Video monitor, recorders, and cameras -- Fiber-optic headlamps and light sources -- Pulse lavage irrigator -- Phaco-emulsifier and irrigation/aspiration units -- Cryotherapy units -- Insufflators -- Nerve stimulators -- Accessory equipment: -- Suction systems -- Lights -- Pneumatic tourniquets -- Sequential compression devices -- Supplies: -- Drapes -- Sterile packs -- Sponges and dressings -- Catheters, tubes, and drains: -- Catheters -- Tubes -- Drains -- Irrigators and syringes.
5050 |a Wound Healing, Sutures, Needles, And Stapling Devices: -- Introduction -- Types of wounds: -- Surgical wounds -- Traumatic wounds -- Chronic wounds -- Inflammatory process -- Types of wound healing -- First intention (primary union) -- Phases of wound healing by first intention -- Second intention (granulation) -- Third intention (delayed primary closure) -- Factors influencing wound healing -- Postoperative wound care: -- Wound drains -- Dressings -- Sutures -- Packaging of suture -- Ligatures: -- Ligating methods -- Suture for the procedure -- Needles: -- Needle eyes -- Needle points -- Needle bodies -- Nonsuture needles -- Layer closure: -- Peritoneum -- Fascia -- Muscle -- Subcutaneous -- Subcuticular -- Skin -- Suturing techniques: -- Continuous suturing techniques -- Interrupted suturing techniques -- Traction sutures -- Secondary suture line -- Retention -- Endoscopic suturing -- Alternative skin closure methods and tissue adhesives -- Accessory devices: -- Bridges and bolsters -- Buttons and lead shots -- Umbilical tape -- Wessel loops -- Suture anchors -- Adhesive skin closure tapes -- Stapling devices -- Types of staplers: -- Linear staplers -- Ligating clips -- Linear dissecting stapler -- Intraluminal staplers -- Meshes or fabrics -- Surgical Case Management: -- Introduction -- Anticipation -- Preoperative patient routines: -- Preoperative education -- Patient possessions -- Enemas -- Nail polish -- Sedation -- Preoperative hygiene -- Preoperative hair removal -- Diet -- Makeup and dress -- Attire: -- OR attire -- Protective attire -- Sterile attire -- Preparing the operating room -- Operating room setup -- Gathering instrumentation and supplies -- Creating and maintaining the sterile field: -- Opening sterile supplies -- Scrubbing and donning sterile attire -- Self-drying and gowning -- Closed gloving -- Turning the gown -- Preparation of the sterile field -- Organizing the sterile instruments and supplies -- Sharps -- Instruments -- Organizing the mayo stand -- Patient transport to OR -- Thermoregulatory devices -- Transfer and positioning -- Vital signs: -- Temperature -- Pulse -- Respiration -- Blood pressure -- Urethral catheterization: -- Open gloving -- Indications for urethral catheterization -- Considerations for urethral catheterization -- Urethral catheterization supplies -- Positioning the surgical patient: -- Supine position -- Trendelenburg position -- Reverse Trendelenburg position -- Fowler's position and sitting position -- Lithotomy position -- Prone position -- Kraske (jackknife) position -- Lateral position -- Kidney position -- Sim's position -- Patient skin preparation: -- Single use -- Abdominal and thoracoabdominal preparations -- Chest and breast -- Eyes, ears, face, and nose -- Extremities -- Perineal and vaginal preps -- Assisting a team member -- Draping the surgical patient: -- Problem solving -- Draping the abdomen -- Draping the perineum -- Draping an extremity -- Draping for craniotomy -- Positioning of the sterile team members and the furniture -- Marking the skin incision -- General principles: -- Safety -- Intraoperative communication: -- Verbal communication -- Nonverbal communication -- Passing the instruments (and other supplies) -- Maintaining order within the sterile field -- Additional supplies -- Intraoperative counts: -- Sponges -- Sharps management -- Instruments -- Medication handling -- Specimen care -- Replacement of contaminated glove or gown -- Dressing application -- Progression of the surgical procedure -- Preservation of the sterile field: -- Drape removal -- Gown and glove removal -- Immediate postoperative patient care -- Breakdown of the setup -- Section 3: Surgical Procedures: -- Diagnostic Procedures: -- Sources of patient data: -- History and physical examination -- Diagnostic imaging -- Laboratory reports -- Electrodiagnostic studies -- Pulmonary diagnosis -- Endoscopy -- Plethysmorgraphy and phleborheography -- General Surgery: -- Introduction -- Instrumentation, routine equipment, and supplies: -- Instrumentation -- Incisions -- Hernias: -- Hernia repair -- Surgery of the alimentary canal -- Esophageal pathology -- Laparoscopic nissen fundoplication: -- Pathological conditions of the stomach -- Gastrostomy -- Total gastrectomy -- Bowel pathology: -- Principles of bowel resection and anastomosis -- Appendectomy -- Stomas -- Anorectal pathology -- Select pathology of the liver and biliary tract -- Liver resection: -- Surgical treatment of gallbladder disease -- Conservative treatment for cholelithiasis -- Cholecystectomy and cholangiography -- Surgery of the pancreas and spleen: -- Cancer of the pancreas -- Pancreatectomy: -- Pancreaticoduodenectomy -- Breast surgery: -- Breast and axilla: pathology and diagnosis -- Surgery of the thyroid and parathyroid: -- Thyroidectomy -- Obstetric And Gynecologic Surgery: -- Introduction to obstetric and gynecologic surgery -- Instrumentation, equipment, and supplies in obstetric and gynecologic surgery: -- Instrumentation -- Equipment -- Supplies -- Patient positioning, draping, and/or setup -- Surgical procedures: obstetrics: -- Labor -- Normal role of surgical technologist in delivery -- Episiotomy and Perineal lacerations -- Incompetent cervix -- Surgical procedures: gynecologic procedures: -- Abdominal incisions for gynecologic surgery -- Diagnostic procedures -- Surgical procedures of the external genitalia and structures -- Cervical surgical procedures -- Ovarian, fallopian tubes and uterine surgical procedures.
5050 |a Ophthalmic Surgery: -- Introduction to ophthalmic surgery -- Instruments, routine equipment, and supplies: -- Instruments -- Routine equipment -- Special equipment -- Routine supplies -- Surgical intervention: -- Practical considerations -- Procedural considerations -- Cataract extraction -- Otorhinolaryngologic surgery: -- Introduction to otorhinolaryngologic surgery -- Ear procedures: -- Diagnostic procedures/tests for the ear -- Routine instruments, equipment, and supplies -- Practical considerations -- Nasal procedures: -- Nasal diagnostic procedures/tests -- Routine instruments, equipment, and supplies -- Practical considerations -- Submucous resection (SMR) -- SMR/septoplasty: -- Intranasal antrostomy -- Caldwell-luc -- Oral cavity and throat procedures: -- Diagnostic procedures/tests for the oral cavity and throat -- Routine instruments, equipment, and supplies -- Practical considerations -- Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery: -- Introduction to oral and maxillofacial surgery -- Diagnostic tests -- Tooth extraction/odontectomy: -- Routine instruments, equipment, and supplies -- Maxillofacial procedures: general considerations: -- General considerations -- Repair of mandibular/maxillary fractures -- Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery: -- Introduction -- Diagnostic procedures and tests -- Instrumentation, routine equipment, and supplies: -- Instrumentation -- Equipment -- Skin graft procedures: -- Skin grafts -- Scar revision -- Head and face procedures -- Hand procedures -- Breast procedures -- Abdominal procedures -- Genitourinary Surgery: -- Introduction -- Diagnostic procedures and tests: -- History and physical -- Laboratory findings -- Radiologic findings -- Biopsy -- Endoscopy -- Instrumentation, routine equipment, and supplies: -- Instrumentation -- Equipment -- Supplies -- Incisional options -- Kidney, ureter, and bladder surgical procedures: -- Nephrectomy -- GU endoscopy -- Cystectomy/iideal conduit -- Procedures for stress incontinence -- Affecting women: -- Suburethral sling (pubovaginal sling) -- Prostate surgery: -- Percutaneous implantation of radioactive seeds in the prostate gland -- Testicular surgery -- Penile surgical procedures -- Orthopedic Surgery: -- Bone and bone tissue: -- Bone tissue -- Types of bones -- Types of joints -- Ball-and-socket joints -- Condyloid joints -- Gliding joints -- Hinge joints -- Pivot joints -- Saddle joints -- Mineral storage -- Factors that affect bone growth -- Pathology -- Diagnostic procedures and tests -- Instrumentation, routine equipment, and supplies: -- Instrumentation -- Routine equipment -- Routine supplies -- Orthopedic surgical procedures: -- Shoulder procedures -- Procedures of the radius -- Hip procedures -- Femoral procedures -- Knee procedures -- Ankle and foot -- Cardiothoracic Surgery: -- Introduction -- Diagnostic procedures and tests -- Instrumentation, routine equipment, and supplies: -- Instrumentation -- Equipment -- Supplies -- Thoracic surgical procedures -- Introduction -- Diagnostic procedures and tests -- Routine instrumentation, equipment, and supplies: -- Instrumentation -- Equipment -- Supplies -- Anatomy and physiology of the heart: -- Location of the heart -- Coverings of the heart -- Heart wall -- Heart chambers -- Heart valves -- Blood flow through the heart -- Blood supply for the heart -- Cardiac conduction -- Techniques of cardiopulmonary bypass -- Adult cardiac surgical procedures: -- Mitral valve replacement -- Introduction: -- Preoperative preparation -- Ventricular septal defect -- Peripheral Vascular Surgery: -- Peripheral vascular surgical anatomy: -- Blood vessels -- Arterial system -- Venous system -- Peripheral vascular surgery -- Diagnostic procedures and tests -- Instrumentation, supplies, and equipment: -- Instrumentation -- Supplies -- Equipment -- Peripheral vascular surgical procedures -- Neurosurgery: -- Introduction to neurological surgery -- Instruments, routine equipment, and supplies: -- Instruments -- Routine equipment -- Routine supplies -- Surgical intervention: -- Cranial procedures -- Postoperative considerations -- Spinal procedures: -- Practical considerations -- Procedural considerations -- Peripheral nerve procedures: -- Practical considerations -- Procedural considerations -- Appendix A: Anatomy plates -- Appendix B: Common prefixes and suffixes -- Appendix C: Measurements -- Glossary -- Index.
520 |a Overview: Welcome to the leading text in surgical technology - the most up-to-date, the most trusted, and the most comprehensive. Surgical Technology For The Surgical Technologist: A Positive Care Approach, Fourth Edition is your trusted source for comprehensive foundational surgical technology information. This streamlined new edition gets right to the essential topics such as equipment and supplies, operative preparation, practical and technical considerations, and postoperative considerations. With updated real-life scenarios, medical artwork, live surgery images, and numerous tools to support learning, this text is the ultimate resource for helping you anticipate the patient's and surgeon's needs before, during, and after a surgical procedure. Full coverage of essential procedures, this text provides you with the information needed to successfully apply the guidelines found in the Sixth Edition Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology, published by the Association of Surgical Technologists.
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