Berry and Kohn's Operating Room Technique

SECTION ONE: CORRELATION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE. Introduction for the Learner. Foundations of Perioperative Patient Care. Accountability and Professional Issues. Legal and Ethical Issues. SECTION TWO: THE PERIOPERATIVE HEALTH CARE TEAM: The Perioperative Patient Care Team. Administration of Perioperative Patient Care Services. SECTION THREE: THE PATIENT AS A UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL: The Patient: The Reason for Your Existence. Perioperative Paediatrics. Perioperative Geriatrics. SECTION FOURTHE PERIOPERATIVE ENVIRONMENT: Physical Facilities. Ambulatory Surgical Services. Care of the Perioperative Environment. Potential Sources of Injury. SECTION FIVE: SURGICAL ASEPSIS: Microbiologic Considerations. Principles of Asepsis and Sterile Technique. Attire, Surgical Scrub, Gowning, and Gloving. Disinfection. Sterilization. SECTION SIX: INSTRUMENTATION AND EQUIPMENT: Surgical Instrumentation. Specialised Surgical Equipment. SECTION SEVEN: PREOPERATIVE PATIENT CARE: Preoperative Care of the Patient. Diagnostic Procedures. Surgical Oncology. SECTION EIGHT: ANESTHESIA CONSIDERATIONS: General Anaesthesia: Techniques and Agents. Local and Regional Anaesthesia. Physiologic Maintenance and Monitoring of the Perioperative Patient. SECTION NINE: INTRAOPERATIVE PATIENT CARE: Co-ordinated Roles of Scrub Person and Circulator. Positioning the Patient. Skin Preparation and Draping of the Surgical Site. SECTION TEN: SURGICAL SITE MANAGEMENT: Hemostasis and Wound Closure. Wound Healing. SECTION ELEVEN: POSTOPERATIVE PATIENT CARE: Postoperative Patient Care. Potential Perioperative Complications. SECTION TWELVE: SURGICAL SPECIALTIES: General Surgery. Gynaecologic and Obstetric Surgery. Urologic Surgery. Orthopaedic Surgery. Ophthalmic Surgery. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery. Neurosurgery. Thoracic Surgery. Cardiac Surgery. Peripheral Vascular Surgery. Organ Procurement and Transplantation.