Operating room skills
Subtitle: fundamentals for the surgical technologist
By: Nancy N. Dankanich
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780135093788
Subjects: Operating Room Nursing; Methods; Operating Rooms; Clinical Competence; Standards; Education; Operating Room Technicians; Operative Surgical Procedures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Don operating room attire; title: Perform basic hand hygiene; title: Don and doff personal protective equipment; title: Open sterile supplies; title: Perform surgical hand scrub; title: Gown and glove self : closed-gloving method; title: Drape Mayo stand and prepare back table; title: Perform counts : prevent retained surgical items; title: Prepare medications and solutions; title: Select mayo stand instruments; title: Prepare patient for operating room entry; title: Participate in preanesthesia skills; title: Facilitate electrosurgery and demonstrate surgical fire awareness; title: Gown and glove another team member; title: Perform open-gloving technique; title: Perform urinary catheterization and skin preparation; title: Apply surgical drapes; title: Perform postdraping and preincision preparation; title: Identify, prepare, and pass instruments; title: Prepare, load, and pass suture for right- and left-handed surgeons; title: Maintain aseptic technique; title: Prepare dressings and drains, and facilitate postanesthesia care; title: Dismantle the sterile field and disrobe; title: Facilitate room turnover and confidentiality; title: Facilitate minimally invasive surgery : laparoscopic and robot-assisted.