Workbook for Surgical Technology - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 7th Edition

• Correlates chapter-by-chapter to the text so you can use the Workbook seamlessly as you use the text and gain extra opportunities for practice to help ensure comprehension.
• Robust practice opportunities include labeling activities and terminology review, fill in the blank, short-answer, and multiple-choice questions to help reinforce the learning outcomes, key terminology, and important concepts through active engagement and assessment of content mastery.
• Case studies feature related questions and present realistic clinical situations or scenarios that challenge you to expand your critical thinking skills and apply what you learn.
• Perforated pages allow you to remove some or all competency sheets for use in clinical evaluation settings.

• EXPANDED! More than 70 skills performance checklists allow you to assess your own skills, helping prepare you for the certification examination.
• NEW! Exercises cover new content on dynamic topics, including professionalism, equipment and technology, robotics and lasers, and advances in orthopedic, cardiovascular, and neurological surgeries, ensures that you are exposed to the most current information and evidence-based practice.
• IMPROVED! More types of practice questions, encompassing recall, comprehension, and application, help better assess your comprehension.
• EXPANDED! Additional labeling exercises provide more practice to improve your comprehension, especially regarding positioning, draping, and instruments.

PART I: SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY PRINCIPLES 1. The Surgical Technologist 2. Communication and Teamwork 3. Law, Documentation, and Professional Ethics 4. The Health Care Facility 5. The Patient   6. Diagnostic and Assessment Procedures   7. Environmental Hazards   8. Microbes and the Process of Infection   9. The Principles and Practice of Aseptic Technique   10. Decontamination, Sterilization, and Disinfection  11. Surgical Instruments   12. Perioperative Pharmacology   13. Anesthesia and Physiological Monitoring   14. Postanesthesia Recovery   15. Death and Dying   16. Physics and Information Technology   17. Energy Sources in Surgery   18. Moving, Handling, and Positioning the Surgical Patient   19. Surgical Skin Preparation and Draping   20. Case Planning and Intraoperative Procedures   21. Management of the Surgical Wound  

PART II: SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY PRACTICE 22. Minimally Invasive Endoscopic and Robotic-Assisted Surgery  23. General Surgery  24. Gynecological and Obstetrical Surgery   25. Genitourinary Surgery  26. Ophthalmic Surgery   27. Surgery of the Ear, Nose, Pharynx, and Larynx   28. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery   29. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery   30. Orthopedic Surgery   31. Peripheral Vascular Surgery   32. Thoracic and Pulmonary Surgery   33. Cardiac Surgery   34. Pediatric Surgery   35. Neurosurgery   36. Emergency Trauma Surgery   37. Disaster Preparedness and Response