1st Edition

Making Sense of Your Surgical Attachment A Hands-On Guide

168 Pages
by CRC Press

176 Pages
by CRC Press

Your surgical attachment is fast approaching and you have a number of questions that need answering to help you make the most of your experience... Making Sense of Your Surgical Attachment will answer them for you. Everything you need to know about the operating theatre and the use of surgical instruments is packed into this one handy guide: * The names and functions of surgical instruments... Read more
Foreword
Introduction from the Editor
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Perioperative care
2 Anaesthesia and the anaesthetic room
3 The operating theatre
4 Scrubbing up
5 Surgical instruments
6 The art of suturing and assisting
7 Electrosurgery
8 Minimal access surgery
9 Health, safety and surgeons
10 You as a trainee
Index

Biography

The authors all undertook their medical and surgical training at the University of Nottingham Medical School, and were final year students at the time of writing. They held the following positions with the University of Nottingham's Surgical Society SCRUBS:



Author and Editor: Paul Sutton, Junior Doctor at Derby City Hospital and 2005/6 President of SCRUBS


Authors:

Polly Drew, 2006/7 President of SCRUBS

Rebecca Lee, 2006/7 Vice-President of SCRUBS

Michele Chimenti, Clinical Co-ordinator on the 2006/7 SCRUBS committee

David Lee, Clinical Co-ordinator on the 2006/7 SCRUBS committee


Editorial Advisor: Michael Larvin, Professor of Surgery at Nottingham University and responsible for the Surgeons in Training Education Programme (STEP) at the Royal College of Surgeons of England