Offers a close-up look at the tips of over 600 cutting, clamping, grasping, retracting, and other surgical instruments to help readers clearly distinguish among them. Includes more than 1200 colour photos of actual individual surgical instruments. Spiral bound.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Very Beneficial:
I really like this book. It is helping me prepare for my Surgical Tech classes. I wanted to get familiar with the instruments before I took the classes. So to me, this book is very beneficial = )
Good review of surgical instruments:
I bought this book since I am new in the OR as a newly grad RN.I like how the book gives uses and other name for the instruments.
best visual aid:
I bought a few books that deal w/ this subject when I got a new job as an OR nurse. this book is the best at allowing a person to study instrument recognition without having to have the actual instrument to refer to. I was able to go to work, scrub in, and w/ very few exceptions, know exactly what I was looking at.
Not much on the differentiation, but a good catalogue:
The title led me to believe the book would go into depth regarding the subtleties in differentiating between instruments which are very much alike. Instead, the book acts as a good text for the surgical tech student who is still working on getting the basics under his belt. Instruments aren't really differentiated in the book so much as listed with pictures according to specialty. It's good as a general reference, but not for any detailed study.
