Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice - Hardcover

Kotcher Fuller, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1416060359 ISBN 13: 9781416060352

Publisher: Saunders, 2009

Synopsis

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.

• Vibrant, full-color design with bullets, numbering, and technique boxes makes it easier to read and understand important information.
• Easy-to-follow organization helps you build up your knowledge from chapter to chapter.
• Procedures broken down into surgical goals, pathology, technique, and discussion allow you to learn each surgical procedure step-by-step.

• New Skills DVD provides instructors with the tools to demonstrate the skills their students must master and provides a tool for students to work independently to enhance their knowledge and understanding of each skill.
• Death and Dying chapter details the proper techniques for handling sensitive issues in the operating room.
• Biomedical and Computer Technology chapter includes vital content on technology you’ll use and see in the field with discussions of the latest technological advances.
• Postoperative Recovery chapter helps you understand patient care after a surgical procedure.
• Updated information on energy sources, minimally invasive surgery, diagnostic endoscopy, and robotics follows the AST Core Curriculum and ensures you have the most up-to-date and accurate knowledge for the operating room.
• Content reflects the revised AST Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology guidelines.
• Complete index listings of medical prefixes, suffixes, and root words offer a quick and convenient guide to reinforce your medical vocabulary.
• Chapter outlines, bulleted chapter summaries, and chapter review questions strengthen your understanding of key content.

About this title

Book Description:

Complete, full-color coverage of techniques, instrumentation, and procedures

About the Author:

Joanna Kotcher holds a Master’s Degree in Global Health, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a BA in International Studies. She has coordinated emergency response in conflict environments for the past 18 years in such locations as Kosovo, Central Asia (Tajikistan), Afghanistan, Darfur, Gaza and the OPT, Somaliland, Syria, and Iraq. As a Medical/Surgical Coordinator Ms. Kotcher has coordinated and managed medical teams in the start-up and full implementation stages of projects that assist populations in need of emergency medical and surgical care during armed conflict. She has also coordinated post-conflict actions during the period immediately following “official cessation of armed conflict. Working in insecure environments, Ms. Kotcher has extensive experience in the design and implementation of medical/surgical actions, team building and support, implementation of standards and guidelines, medical and nursing staff training, and team mentoring. She continues to study and learn while working in the field and maintaining membership with notable professional organizations in the combined disciplines of humanitarian studies and medical/surgical assistance.

About this edition

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1416060359
• ISBN 13: 9781416060352
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1152