Instrumentation for the Operating Room: A Photographic Manual [Paperback]

Shirley M. Brooks Tighe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1994 | ISBN-10: 0801677823 | ISBN-13: 978-0801677823 | Edition: 4th

A full-color photographic manual, INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE OPERATING ROOM familiarizes perioperative and operating room personnel with today's surgicalinstruments for all major surgical procedures. Reflecting the advances of modern technology, this text features the most current instrumentation andequipment available, including new instruments for endoscopic surgery, neurosurgery, ophthalmic surgery,orthopedic surgery, and oral, maxilla, and facial surgery. All images are new and photographed digitally to illustrate the necessary detail of instruments and improve image clarity. Operating room personnel as well as students in perioperative nursing and surgical technology programs benefit from this valuable reference.

* Includes completely new images in full color. * Features all images shot in digital photography to enhance the clarity and detail of the surgical instruments. * Includes close-up shots of instrument tips to highlight the distinguishing characteristics of otherwise similar-appearing surgical tools. * Provides photographs of new surgical instruments, including microsurgical instruments in neuro, cardiovascular, and orthopedic surgery, to address the latest in surgical instrument advances. * Organizes instruments by surgical procedure within each surgical specialty for easy access to information. * Contains photographs of surgical instrument sets, along with accessory and specialized instruments, to provide the broadest variety of instruments without redundancy.

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Shirley M. Brooks Tighe, RN, BA, AD --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Mosby-Year Book; 4th edition (February 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801677823
• ISBN-13: 978-0801677823
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,056,836 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and detailed, June 9, 2000

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madsenmel (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instrumentation for the Operating Room: A Photographic Manual (Instrumentation for the Operating Rooom, 5th ed) (Spiral-bound)

This manual is excellent for beginners, due to its thoroughness and wonderful, close-up detailed photos of the tips of the instruments, where most of the differentiation occurs. Also features photos of similar instruments side-by-side, so size differences are more obvious. The only detraction was that some of the names used to identify the instruments were not familiar to me (I only know a Kocher by that name, which is not even given as an alternate name in this book). However, this is a minor, infrequently occurring problem. Overall, the most helpful manual I've found.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not very helpul in recognizing instruments., February 22, 2003

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This review is from: Instrumentation for the Operating Room: A Photographic Manual (Instrumentation for the Operating Rooom, 5th ed) (Spiral-bound)

Instrumentation for the Operating Room Photographic Instrumentation manual. Although this manual is very well organized in instrument sets and procedures, the photographs are are unclear in instrument detail. These images should be on a white background and in sharper detail as this is crucial in identifying instruments.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for initial learning of instruments..., April 9, 2003

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Jim Bettis (Fairview Park, Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instrumentation for the Operating Room: A Photographic Manual (Instrumentation for the Operating Rooom, 5th ed) (Spiral-bound)

As a student of Surgical Technology, I need to know all the instruments to hand to the surgeon and assistant. The book is good, but has one shortfall; the pictures are somewhat vague. I mean, that many instruments look alike. The photographs could've been taken to show the curve of many instruments or a macro lens could've been utilized. Still, it's the best book out that I know of to help you learn the instruments.