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Surgical Technology

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Flashcards for Differentiating Surgical Instruments

Quiz yourself in any setting with these handy flash cards. 219 cards illustrate the instruments and staplers most commonly used for general, laparoscopic, robotics, and OB/GYN surgeries. Plus, 20 bonus cards cover even more specialties.

Surgical Mayo Setups

Newly revised with more than 130 Mayo-stand and back-table set-ups, this handy pocket reference is smartly organized with tabs according to surgical specialty, which helps you find the right set-up quickly and easily.

Operating Room Skills

Helps students develop the essential skills needed to perform safely and competently in the operating room. The unique format follows the role of the surgical technologist, in conjunction with a patient's movement through surgery.

The Fundamentals of Surgical Instruments: A Practical Guide to Their Recognition, Use, and Care

Provides useful information that is essential for operating department practitioners, nurses, scrub practitioners, surgeons under training, surgical technologists, junior doctors and medical students. Descriptions of how and where the instruments are used will also aid in the knowledge required for their application.

Surgical Instrumentation

Packed with hundreds of crisp, full-color instrument photos organized logically by surgery type, this book depicts common instruments alone, in collections, and disassembled with close-up views of key parts, making it easy for you to tell a scalpel from a lancet and create the ideal instrument sets for the surgery at hand.

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.

Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist

Delivers the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of over 200 essential surgical procedures. It also includes essential topics such as equipment and supplies, operative preparation, practical and technical considerations, and postoperative considerations.

Practical Pharmacology for the Surgical Technologist

Focuses specifically on the needs of surgical technologists, complies with all requirements from the Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology, 6th Edition. Handy features throughout the chapters highlight must-know, core curriculum content, while critical thinking and review questions give you practice thinking on your feet.

Medical Reference Books

Magill's Medical Guide (8th ed)

Covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, biology, and issues in an easy-to-use A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

Human Diseases and Conditions

The full-color, four-volume set provides 450 topics covering both common and uncommon infectious diseases, various types of cancer, physical and psychological conditions, tropical diseases, sports injuries, and important public health issues.

The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health

Provides more than 1,230 alphabetically arranged entries covering topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, contemporary health care issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment.

Merck Manuals

Merck Manual

Free resource - comprehensive medical information source covering thousands of topics in all fields of medicine. They are offered as a free public service to health care professionals and the general public.