Surgical technology : principles and practice / Joanna R. Fuller

CONTENTS

THE SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIST AND OPERATING ROOM NURSE
The technologist and nurse a a team
Education, certification, and job opportunities
E.tc


SURGICAL CONSCIENCE AND ETHICS
Areas affected by surgical conscience
Ethics
Situations that undermine surgical conscience

OPERATING ROOM ORGANIZATION
Personnel
Design of the operating room

PRINCIPLES OF MICROBIOLOGY, STERILIZATION, AND DISINFECTION
Bacterial structure and physiology
Disease transmission
E.tc


ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE
Personnel attire and hygiene
Basic rules of asepsis
E.tc


PREOPERATIVE PREPARATION AND CARE OF THE PATIENT
Psychological considerations
Special paediatric concerns
E.tc

ANESTHESIA
Conduction anaesthesia
General anaesthesia
E.tc

POSITIONING THE SURGICAL PATIENT
The operating table
Basic guidelines for moving the Anesthetized patient
E.tc
PREPARATION OF THE SURGICAL SITE
Resident and transient flora
The shave prep
E.tc


SURGICAL PHARMACOLOGY
weights and measures
Accepting medications in surgery
E.tc

ACCESSORY SUPPLIES


LASES TECHNOLOGY AND USE
Types of lasers
How the laser works
E.tc


WOUND CLOSURE
Mechanisms of wound healing
Classification of wound healing
E.tc


INSTRUMENTATION
Types of instruments
Parts of an instrument
E.tc

SURGERY ROUTINES
Preparation for a case
Table set-up
E.tc


GENERAL SURGERY
surgical anatomy
Laparotomy
E.tc

OBSTETRICAL AND GYNEOLOGICAL SURGERY
surgical anatomy
Abdominal hysterectomy
E.tc

UROGENITAL SURGERY
surgical anatomy
Simple nephrectomy
E.tc

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
surgical anatomy
Fractures
Orthopaedic exposure
E.tc

CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY
surgical anatomy
Bronchoscopy
Etc.

PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SURGERY
surgical anatomy
Arteriography
E.tc


NEUROSURGERY
surgical anatomy
Diagnostic procedures
E.tc

EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT AND MOUTH SURGERY
surgical anatomy
Excision of pterygium
E.tc

PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Surgical anatomy
Skin grafting
Etc

THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF SURGERY
legal limits of surgical technology
legal responsibilities of the technologist
E.tc

Includes index