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Small Animal Surgical Nursing
- 4th Edition - January 28, 2021
- Author: Marianne Tear
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 5 9 1 3 - 7
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 5 1 6 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 6 4 8 5 - 8
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Master the veterinary technician's role and skills in surgical assisting! Small Animal Surgical Nursing, 4th Edition helps you learn the protocols and techniques you need to work together with the veterinarian as a smoothly functioning surgical team. Clear guidelines are provided in areas such as surgical instruments and procedures, anesthesia, patient monitoring, preoperative and postoperative care of the animals, pain management, and client education. This edition is updated throughout and includes timed instrument identification exercises on the Evolve website. Written by well-known educator Marianne Tear, this comprehensive resource ensures that you are highly competent in performing all of the vet tech’s surgical responsibilities.
- Coverage of small animal surgical nursing provides a full review of the role and responsibilities of the veterinary technician in the surgical setting, including sterilization, protocols, gowning, gloving, anesthesia, wound management, and care of the animals before and after surgery.
- Focus on exceptional clinical skills and practice tips draws from the author’s real-world experiences of what is most commonly encountered in the clinical setting.
- Nearly 500 full-color illustrations and photographs show surgical equipment, instruments, sterile techniques, suturing techniques, and wound management.
- Attention to detail ensures understanding of the skills covered in required veterinary technician surgical nursing courses.
- Learning Objectives and Key Terms at the beginning of each chapter identify the material that should be mastered in the upcoming chapter.
- Key Points and Review Questions at the end of each chapter facilitate study and reinforce understanding.
- Quick Reference for Common IV Infusions and Analgesic Protocols appendix helps students learn to work quickly and efficiently.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- List of Tables
- List of Illustrations
- 1. Preoperative room considerations
- Layout of the surgery suite
- Equipment cleaning
- Perioperative equipment
- Setting up the surgery suite
- Conclusion
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 2. Instruments
- Surgical instruments
- Surgical “power tools”
- Surgical needles
- Suture material
- Conclusion
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 3. Anesthetic machine
- Anesthetic machine
- Oxygen flow rates
- Conclusion
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 4. Preoperative patient considerations
- History taking
- Physical examination
- Consent form
- Preanesthetic diagnostic tests
- Preoperative medications
- Anticholinergics
- Antibiotics
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 5. Patient preparation
- Intravenous catheters
- Endotracheal intubation
- Patient preparation
- Surgical site preparation
- Site preparation and positioning
- Techniques for maintaining body temperature
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 6. Patient monitoring
- Role of the veterinary technician anesthetist
- Monitoring
- Pulse and blood pressure
- Special surgical case considerations
- Anesthesia monitoring devices
- Electrocardiograph
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 7. Asepsis
- Asepsis
- Duties of the circulating assistant
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 8. Operating room personnel
- Nutrition and hygiene
- Proper attire in surgical area
- Surgical hand scrub and hand rub
- Responsibilities
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 9. Surgical assisting—duties during surgery
- Instrument handling and passing
- Tissue handling
- Equipment count
- Draping—basic principles
- Drug administration
- Suture-related responsibilities
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 10. Surgical procedures
- Introduction
- Responsibilities of the surgical technician
- Abdominal procedures
- Specific abdominal procedures
- Reproductive procedures
- Pyometra
- Cystotomy
- Ear procedures
- Ophthalmic procedures
- Orthopedic procedures
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 11. The postoperative patient
- Recovery from anesthesia and extubation
- Postoperative monitoring
- Complications related to anesthesia
- Complications related to surgery
- Dehiscence
- Infection
- Postoperative nursing care
- Wound closure
- Intravenous catheter maintenance
- Urinary catheter maintenance
- Nutritional support
- Postoperative analgesia
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 12. The technician’s role in pain management
- Understanding pain
- The technician’s role in pain management
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 13. Client education for postoperative care
- Discharge instructions
- General postanesthesia instructions
- General postoperative instructions
- Postoperative instructions for common procedures
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- 14. Postoperative cleaning
- Cleaning of the surgery room
- Disinfectants
- Instrument cleaning
- Pack wrapping
- Sterilization
- Specialty instrument cleaning
- Rotating and restocking supplies
- Key points
- Review questions
- Bibliography
- Answer key
- Appendix A: Quick reference for common intravenous infusions and analgesic protocols
- Glossary
- Index
- No. of pages: 312
- Language: English
- Edition: 4
- Published: January 28, 2021
- Imprint: Mosby
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323759137
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323751629
- eBook ISBN: 9780323764858
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Marianne Tear
Affiliations and expertise
Program Director
Veterinary Technology
Baker College of Clinton Township
Clinton Township, Michigan