Published: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2014
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xxxvi, 1271 pages : illustrations, chiefly color ; 29 cm.
Contents:
“…List of tables -- List of techniques -- Preface -- Contributors -- Reviewers of proof chapters -- Reviewers -- Technical reviewers -- How to use this book -- Section 1: Introduction To Surgical Technology: -- Orientation To Surgical Technology: -- History of surgery -- Surgery today -- Surgical specialties -- History of surgical technology -- Field of surgical technology: -- Working conditions -- Personal characteristics -- Problem-solving skills -- Surgical team members -- Three phases of surgical case management -- Nonsterile surgical team members -- Sterile surgical team members: -- Preoperative case management -- Intraoperative case management -- Postoperative case management -- Surgical technology education and certification -- Surgical technologist as a professional: -- Professionalism -- Professional organization: -- Surgical technologist's lifestyle -- Roles and competencies -- Job descriptions for the surgical technologist -- Career development and opportunities -- Clinical ladder program -- Employability skills: -- Resume preparation -- Communication skills and teamwork: -- Communication -- Teamwork -- Surgical conscience -- Health care facilities organization and management -- Hospital organization: -- Hospital departments and interdepartmental communication -- Financial considerations and reimbursement -- Professional management: -- Professional organizations -- Credentialing organizations -- Related professional organizations -- Legal Concepts, Risk Management, And Ethical Issues: -- Legal issues: -- Definitions of general legal terms -- Definitions of legal doctrines and traditional principles -- Torts -- Intentional torts -- Unintentional torts: -- Consent for surgery: a basic right -- Informed consent: -- Documentation -- Sentinel event/incident reports -- Advance directives -- AHA patient care partnership -- Risk management and liability: -- Medical errors -- Safe Medical Device Act -- Managing patient and employee injuries -- Malpractice insurance -- Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) -- Ethical and moral issues: -- Moral principles -- Elements of ethical decision making -- Professional codes of conduct -- Scope of practice: -- Credentialing -- Accreditation and core curriculum -- Surgical Patient: -- Surgical technologist and the surgical patient -- Physical, psychological, and
social, and spiritual needs of the surgical patient -- Understanding the surgical patient as a
human being: -- Causes of surgical intervention -- Patient responses to illness and hospitalization -- Death and dying -- Prioritizing needs: Maslow's hierarchy -- Sample application of Maslow's hierarchy: -- Cultural and religious influences -- Sample application: using religious and cultural information in the operating room -- Special Populations: -- Introduction -- Pediatric patients: -- Monitoring the pediatric patient -- Shock -- Fluids and electrolytes -- Infection -- Metabolic an nutritional response -- Trauma -- General principles of pediatric emergency treatment -- Patients with obesity: -- Review of surgical considerations -- Specific considerations of bariatric surgery -- Patients with diabetes: -- Complications associated with diabetes -- Care of the patient with diabetes in surgery -- Pregnant patients: -- Considerations when caring for pregnant patients -- Anesthesia -- Intraoperative considerations for the surgical technologist -- Immunocompromised patients: -- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome -- Physically challenged or sensory impaired patients -- Isolation patients -- Geriatric patients -- Substance abuse patients -- Trauma patients -- Golden Hour and trauma system -- Kinematics: -- Blunt trauma -- Penetrating trauma -- Trauma scoring -- Considerations for the surgical technologist: -- Preservation of evidence -- Hypothermia -- Infection -- Preparation of the case: -- Post-traumatic stress disorder patient -- Physical Environment And Safety Standards: -- Physical design of the surgery department -- Areas of the operating room: -- Instrument room -- Utility and decontamination room -- Physical components of the operative suite: -- Equipment -- Standard operating room furniture -- Surfaces in the operating room -- Cabinets and doors -- Doors -- Ventilation system -- Substerile area -- Direct support services: -- Preoperative or "same-day" check-in unit -- Preoperative holding area -- Postanesthesia care unit -- Laboratory department -- Radiology department -- Pathology department -- Environmental services -- Central sterile supply and processing -- Hazards and regulatory agencies -- Safety considerations: -- Surgical lights -- Noise in the operating room -- Ergonomics and safety considerations -- Fire hazards and safety -- Other safety guidelines -- Fire safety guidelines -- Electrical hazards: -- Electrical current -- Preventing electrical burns -- Static electricity -- Ionizing radiation: -- Protection of the surgical patient -- Protection of the surgical technologist -- Biological hazards and safety considerations: -- Standard precautions -- Causes of injury leading to exposure in the operative environment -- Strategies for exposure prevention -- Hazardous waste disposal -- Management of exposure: -- Treatment -- Risk assessment -- Prophylaxis for HIV -- Laser and electrosurgical plume -- Latex allergy -- Chemical hazards and safety considerations: -- Waste anesthetic gases -- Polymethyl methacrylate -- Formalin -- Ethylene oxide -- Glutaraldehyde -- Section 2: Principles And Practice Of Surgical Technology: -- Biomedical Science: -- Introduction -- Computers: -- Hardware -- Software -- Word processing -- Internet basics: -- Accessing the internet -- Importing images from the internet -- Surgical applications: -- Scheduling surgical patients -- Surgeon's preference card -- Patient charts -- Surgical records -- Sterile processing -- Electricity: -- Basic principles of electricity -- Monopolar electrosurgical units -- Bipolar electrosurgical units -- Accessories to electrosurgery -- Advantages of electrosurgery -- Hazards to the patient and surgical team -- Surgical applications: -- X-ray machine -- Endoscopes -- Robotics -- Lasers -- Four interactions with tissue -- Laser parts -- CO2 laser -- Nd:YAG laser -- Holmium: YAG laser -- Krypton laser -- Excimer laser -- Argon laser -- Laser in endoscopy -- Surgical robots: -- Terminology -- da Vinci robotic system -- Advantages of remote manipulation -- Manipulators -- Voice-activated control system, hearing and vision -- Decontamination and sterilization of robotic: -- Components.…”
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