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Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery, 13e

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This book is the gold standard for O.R. Techs and Perioperative nurses, and the U.S. Navy uses it to train their personnel. This book is invaluable for the knowledge and technique it imparts for those of us who work in the O.R., and explains the steps and procedures for hundreds of surgical cases.

This newer version of Alexander's Patient in Surgery is not as useful as the older versions as they took out the list of surgical instruments set up lst for scrub techs to use as a guide line. This book shows a select group of instruments but the old versions had an actual list of everything you might need for that procedure.
I'm very disappointed with this change. Thank goodness I still have the older version to resort back to.

This book really helped me though out my preceptorship in the operating room. I was thrown in to this unit as a nursing student. the facility had never taken on senior nursing students in a long term segment (7 weeks) and didn't have any idea what to teach me or what to do with me. My preceptor handed me this book and by the end i was able to circulate and scrub on minor cases with complete confidence in what i was doing. it is concise in some areas, and detailed where it needs to be, gives great explinations and rationals. the only problem i found was the different tools. The west coast and the east coast have different names for the instruments, and the ones named in the book are more consistant with the names in the west. but other than that. love love loved it

Many years ago I bougt this book. Now I have a new version. This book is very helpful to me. I would recomend it for everybody who work in operating room.

I own this book from school. It is a must for any student of surgery or nursing. It contains information vital to the understanding of the patient and the process of surgery and recovery.

I so appreciated this book after finding out the book that was chosen for our program was so LAME (Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist). I ordered this book on my own while attending this program and will never regret it. I found so much helpful information that went along with the class that I had a headstart on the other students. This again, is the perfect book for Surgical Technologists in training.

For every case am presented with, I use this book to prepare my 20-page OR report. Am learning a lot from it. Because of it my grades are high.

If your going to get one book to learn all about surgery from 1st cut to close and everything in between then this is it.
Very helpful for case studies. Gives accurate account of procedures as well as positions, prep and sutures with many illustrations and pictures.
Highly reccomend this for Surgical Techs or OR staff.
Bought mine used and it was in perfect condition.

I had to get this book for my Intro to Periop RN course, but it's a great text over all. It's easy to read & it's info directly relates to the AORN Standards text. It's broken down in a way that is easy to understand & retain; so I only need to use the AORN Standards text as a reference book. The only thing I think the new edition should have is an Appendix or supplimentary lab book that has more & better pictures of all the surgical instruments (the few pages in the text just weren't enough for me).

Great book. If it wasn't necessary for my class, I'd still have bought it.