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The 14th edition of Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery has been updated to reflect new concepts in perioperative nursing practice and increased sophistication and complexity of surgical procedures.

This revised edition highlights current techniques and innovations in surgery. Hundreds of illustrations, including many new photographs and drawings, help familiarize the reader with new procedures, methods, and equipment. Classic illustrations, particularly of surgical anatomy, have geen preserved. New to this edition, clinical chapters now include Ambulatory Surgical Considerations, Risk Reduction Strategies, and Rapid Response Team applications. Best Practices have been updated, and retitled Evidence for Practice.

You'll also have access to the Evolve web site, which provides you with content updates, surgical instrumentation photos, printable surgical pharmacology tables, printable patient and family education materials, and web links to surgical procedure videos.

This course consists of four quizzes, each worth 22 contact hours (a total of 88 contact hours when you've completed them all).

In Section A (Unit I: Foundations for Practice, including Chapters 1-9): Concepts Basic to Perioperative Nursing; Patient Safety and Risk Management; Infection Prevention and Control in the Perioperative Setting; Anesthesia; Positioning the Patient for Surgery; Sutures, Needles, and Instruments; Surgical Modalities; Wound Healing, Dressings, and Drains; and Postoperative Patient Care and Pain Management.

In Section B (Unit II: Surgical Interventions, including Chapters 10-16): Gastrointestinal Surgery; Surgery of the Liver, Biliary Tract, Pancreas, and Spleen; Repair of Hernias; Gynecologic and Obstetric Surgery; Genitourinary Surgery; Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery; and Breast Surgery.

In Section C (Unit II, continued, including Chapters 17-23): Ophthalmic Surgery; Otorhinolaryngologic Surgery; Orthopedic Surgery; Neurosurgery; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; Thoracic Surgery; and Vascular Surgery.

In Section D (Unit II, continued, Chapter 24): Cardiac Surgery; (and Unit III: Special Considerations, Chapters 25-30): Pediatric Surgery; Geriatric Surgery; Trauma Surgery; Interventional Radiology; Integrated Health Practices: Complementary and Alternative Therapies; and Workplace Issues and Staff Safety.