Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery/50th Anniversary Edition [Hardcover]

Margaret Huth Meeker (Author), Jane C. Rothrock (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0801679249 | ISBN-13: 978-0801679247 | Publication Date: January 1995 | Edition: 10th

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, this "bible" for operating room nurses continues to provide periperative nursing knowledge and skills through its comprehensive, up-to-date content, thorough descriptions of surgical procedures, and pertinent quality illustrations. Patient education and trauma surgery are covered in new chapters.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

The standard in perioperative nursing care -- updated for the utmost in relevant, complete, contemporary instruction --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Margaret H. Meeker, RN, BSN, CNOR; Jane C. Rothrock, RN, DSNc, CNOR --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1248 pages
• Publisher: Mosby-Year Book; 10th edition (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801679249
• ISBN-13: 978-0801679247
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,926,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for O.R. Techs and Perioperative Nurses, February 15, 2000

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Jeff Courson (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery, 11e (Hardcover)

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.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as older edition, January 27, 2008

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P. Keville (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery, 13e (Hardcover)

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.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars really a perfect pic, February 7, 2006

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me "when it rains it pours" (snowing in LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery (Hardcover)

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