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 inpractice. Plus, new and revised chapters on technology, postoperative recovery, energy sources, and much more keep you at the cutting edge of the field. INDICE: 1. The Surgical Technologist2. The Patient in Surgery3. Death and Dying 4. Law and Ethics 5. Introduction to the Health Facility 6. Communication and Teamwork7. Microbes and The Process of Infection8. Decontamination, Disinfection, and Sterilization9. Aseptic Technique10. Transporting, Transferring,and Positioning11. Surgical Skin Preparation and Draping12. Anesthsia, Anesthetics, and Physiological Monitoring13. Postoperative Recovery and Patient Discharge 14. Perioperative Pharmacology15. Environmental Hazards16. Case Planningand Intraoperative Routines 17. The Surgical Wound18. Biomechanics and Computer Technology 19. Energy Sources in Surgery 20. Diagnostic and Assessment Procedures21. Minimally Invasive, Endoscopic, and Robotic Assisted Surgery22. Surgical Instruments23. General Surgery24. Gynecological and Obstetrical Surgery25. Genitourinary Surgery26. Ophthalmic Surgery27. Surgery of the Ear, Nose, Pharynx and Larynx 28. OralMaxillofacial Trauma Surgery 29. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery30. Orthopedic Surgery31. Peripheral Vascular Surgery32. Thoracicand Pulmonary Surgery 33. Cardiac Surgery 34. Pediatric Surgery35. Neurosurgery
- ISBN: 978-1-4160-6035-2
- Editorial: Saunders
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 1152
- Fecha Publicación: 15/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés