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Prepare to deliver the best patient care before, during, and after surgery with this approachable guide to surgical skills and operating room procedures. In addition to covering all the content in the AST Core Curriculum, this one-of-a-kind text offers a unique mentoring approach and engaging learning features that make even complex skills and techniques easy to understand.

• Comprehensive coverage addresses all areas of the AST Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology.
• Reader-friendly writing style and organization builds content from fundamental concepts, aseptic technique, and the role and function of the surgical technologist, to the specialty surgical procedure chapters.
• Consistent chapter format breaks down surgical procedures in an easy-to-understand way that helps you understand the key elements of more than 200 procedures.
• Approximately 1,150 full-color illustrations and clinical photos bring concepts and procedures to life.
• Robust practice opportunities include review questions and case studies at the end of each chapter, along with additional review questions and surgical practice videos on the Evolve companion website.
• Learning features, including learning objectives, key terms, references and bibliographies, key concepts, and Important to Know boxes, keep you on track and organized as you move through the chapters.

• Pathology appendix summarizes the most commonly seen pathological processes and organizes them by body system.

• UPDATED! Content correlates with the AST Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology, 7th Edition.
• UPDATED! Expanded coverage includes the latest advances in robotics and minimally invasive procedures.
• UPDATED! Vivid artwork includes additional photos to help bring key concepts to life.

• Written by surgical technologists, for surgical technologists.

  Inhalt

  Part I: Surgical Technology Principles

  1. Surgical Technology: The Profession and the Professional
  2. Health Care Facility Structure and Environment
  3. Communication and Teamwork
  4. Medicolegal Aspects of Surgical Technology
  5. Death, Dying and the Psychosocial Needs of the Patient
  6. Diagnostic and Assessment Procedures
  7. Environmental Hazards
  8. Energy Sources in Surgery
  9. Disaster Preparedness and Response
  10. Microbes and the Process of Infection
  11. Decontamination, Sterilization, and Disinfection
  12. Surgical Instruments
  13. Sterile Technique and Infection Control
  14. Surgical Skills I: Planning a Case, Opening, and Start of Surgery
  15. Surgical Skills II: Intraoperative and Immediate Postoperative Period
  16. Moving, Handling, and Positioning the Surgical Patient
  17. Surgical Skin Preparation and Draping
  18. Perioperative Pharmacology
  19. Anesthesia, Physiological Monitoring, and Postanesthesia Recovery

  Part II: Surgical Technology Practice

  20. General Surgery
  21. Minimally Invasive Surgery
  22. Robotic-Assisted Surgery
  23. Gynecological and Obstetrical Surgery
  24. Genitourinary Surgery
  25. Surgery of the Ear, Nose, Pharynx, and Larynx
  26. Ophthalmic Surgery
  27. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  28. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  29. Orthopedic Surgery
  30. Neurosurgery
  31. Vascular and Microvascular Surgery
  32. Thoracic and Pulmonary Surgery
  33. Cardiac Surgery
  34. Pediatric Surgery
  35. Emergency Trauma Surgery

  Appendix
  A. Common Pathology by System
  B. Drugs and Substances Associated with Surgery
  C. Math Review Glossary