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Differentiating Surgical Instruments
By
Colleen J. Rutherford, RN, MS, CNOR, Concord Hospital, Concord, New Hampshire.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8036-1224-2
ISBN-10: 0-8036-1224-9
183 pp.
1,458 ill.
Soft cover, spiral binding.
©2005
Available now.
$57.95
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An Instructor's Resource Disk • Image Ancillary with all images from the text • Computerized Test Bank, including image identifications.
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Take a close-up look at the tips of over 700 cutting, clamping, grasping, retracting, and other surgical instruments to help students clearly and effectively distinguish among them.
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- More than 1,450 full-color photographs of actual individual surgical instruments clearly show full views as well as their tips or other distinctive features
- Over 700 instruments and tips, are associated with official names, common nicknames, and descriptions of instrument features, categories, and uses to make recognition easy:
- Common types of clamping, grasping, cutting, and retracting instruments
- Instruments for specialized procedures (such as bowel, thyroid or breast surgery)
- Cutting loops, and the parts that make up cytoscopes and resectoscopes
- Orthopedic drills and saw blades
- Instruments used in microscopic and endoscopic surgery
- Each section includes review questions and critical thinking scenarios
- Detachable bookmark
- Also applicable for those who sit for the Certified OR Nurse (CNOR) and Certified RN First Assistant (CRNFA) exams
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"Surgical technology instructors have been in great need of a text like this one." -- Susan W. Boggs, RN, BSN, CNOR, Surgical Technology Program, Piedmont Technical College, Greenwood, South Carolina
"I wish Differentiating Surgical Instruments was available when I was a student, its concepts and planning has created the most user friendly surgical instrument book I have seen. As a Surgical Technology Program Director I look forward to my future student benefiting from this book in the classroom and as training tool in central sterile supply for years to come. Differentiating Surgical Instruments has set the bar for future Surgical Instrumentation textbooks." -- Kevin R. Craycraft, CST, Surgical Technology Program, Central Kentucky Technical College, Lexington, Kentucky
"The book is very well thought out. It includes everything necessary to make this the instrument book of the future." -- Judith Schatte, RN, CNOR, CRNFA, Brevard Community College, Cocoa, FL
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Introduction
1. General Instruments
2. OB-GYN Instruments
3. Urology Instruments
4. Orthopedic Instruments
5. Neurosurgical Instruments
6. Ear, Nose, and Throat Instruments
7. Ophthalmologic Instruments
8. Cardiothoracic and Vascular Instruments
9. Dental, Plastic, and Maxillofacial Instruments
Appendix: Answers to Surgical Sessions Quizzes
Index
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