The Basics: tubes, drains, avoiding errors, etc.
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Principles of surgery : everything you need to know but were frightened to ask! by
Call Number: WO 500 A569p 2008ISBN: 9781903378571Publication Date: 2008Pre-operative investigations -- Management of concomitant medical conditions -- Preparation for theatre -- Pathways and protocols -- Theatre design and function -- Anaesthesia -- Principles of surgery -- Basic surgical techniques -- Recovery and immediate postoperative care -- Postoperative ward care -- Postoperative complications -- Late complications, discharge and follow-up. -
Differentiating surgical instruments by Call Number: ONLINE OnlyISBN: 0803612249Publication Date: 2005Provides the names, characteristics, and purposes of hundreds of instruments used in general and specialty surgeries. The ability to differentiate instruments quickly and accurately can be a deciding factor in the success-or failure-of a procedure, yet there has been no book that presents, in one volume, the instruments students must memorize until now. Differentiating Surgical Instruments offers a close-up look at the tips of over 700 cutting, clamping, grasping, retracting, and other surgical instruments to help students clearly and effectively distinguish among them. -
ABC of tubes, drains, lines, and frames by
Call Number: Countway Medicine WO 39 A1335 2008ISBN: 9781405160148Publication Date: 2008The complex abdomen / Tracy R. Bilski, Brian Rowlands, and Adam Brooks -- Surgical airways / Andrew Taylor -- The chest / Ben Davies -- Lines / Adam Wolverson -- Pain / Trudy Towell and Jonathan Mole -- Feeding / Gabriel Rodrigues, , Joy Fiel, and Dlieep Lobo -- Surgical wounds / Alastair Simpson and Adam Brooks -- Surgical drains / Sherif Awad, Alastair Simpson, and Adam Brooks -- Hepatobiliary / Ian Beckingham ... [et al.] -- Stomas / Iain Anderson and Amanda Smith -- Urology / Gurminder Mann -- Central nervous system / Jerard Ross, Dawn Williams, and Neil Buxton -- Frames, pins and plaster / Ian Pallister. -
Avoiding common surgical errors by
Call Number: WO 500.3 A961 2006ISBN: 0781747422Publication Date: 2006This pocket book lists 186 errors commonly made by attendings, residents, interns, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants when working with surgical patients on the ward or in the operating room, emergency room, or intensive care unit. The book can easily be read immediately before the start of a rotation or used for quick reference on call.
OR Operations
Basic Surgical Techniques
Countway Medicine| WO 500.3 K59b 2002
Chapters range from "Handling Yourself" to "Handlling threads, ducts and cavities, bleeding, drains and infections.
OR Etiquette and Culture
Operating Room Etiquette
What to wear, how to fix your hair, things you shouldn't touch
Univeristy of Pennsylvania
The Scalpel's Edge: the culture of surgeons.
Pearl Katz
Countway WO21 K155s
An insightful and analytical look at the culture of surgeons written by a medical anthropologist. Topics include: the heroic postuer of surgeons, surgeon decision making, operating room rituals, communication with patients and colleagues, and more...
Casting and Splinting
Technical Skills Program
Wound Care
video from New England Journal of Medicine
Dynamic Wound Closure
WoundEducators.com
Videos on Wound Closure, Splinting, Suturing, Eye Exam, and more
Scroll down to view a listing of available videos
Video Instruction Procedures from the Emergency Medicine Residency program at UCSF
Scrubbing In
Day of Surgery Overview - a series of videos for Surgery Clerkship students from Tulane University Medical School
| Day of Surgery Overview |
| Knot Tying Procedure |
| Scrubbing 101 |
| Self- Gowning Technique |
| Suturing and Knot Tying Techniques |
| Suturing Technique |
Free short videos from the educational division of Brookside Associates
Scrubbing In Procedures
| Closed Cuff Gloving | |
| Eye Protection | |
| Gown Adjustment | |
| Hand Drying | |
| Removing Gown | |
| Shoe Covers | |
| Solo Surgical Gowning | |
| Surgical Cap | |
| Surgical Mask | |
| Surgical Scrub | |
| Turning | |
| Two-Person Gowning |
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Scrubbing 101 Tulane Medical CenterCreated for clerkship students
Procedural Skills
Video from New England Journal of Medicine
Video New England Journal of Medicine
Access Surgery
Access Surgery
Simulators
Extraocular Movement Simulator
University of California, Davis
This
interactive simulator allows disabling of eye muscles and cranial
nerves to see changes in eye motion with various pathologies.
Painless
Interactive
patient simulation in which you are in charge of caring for a post-op
cancer patient administering, adjusting and monitoring his medication.
