Surgical Technology Handbook: Aseptic Technique, Instrumentation, and Procedure Setup Across Every Surgical Specialty

By Brian Paul

The operating room rewards preparation. Every case begins long before the first incision - with a sterile field built correctly, a back table set in a sequence you can trust, and instrumentation you can name, pass, and account for without hesitation. Surgical Technology Handbook is built around that reality: one structured reference that carries you from scrub, gown, and glove through specialty-by-specialty case setup, intraoperative practice, and the closing count.

Written for the classroom, the skills lab, and the sub-sterile corridor, it organizes the full scope of surgical technology into chapters you can work through in sequence or open to the service you are scrubbing tomorrow.

Inside this handbookAseptic and sterile technique - principles of asepsis, surgical hand antisepsis, gowning and gloving, creating and maintaining the sterile field, and correcting breaks in techniqueSterilization and instrument processing - steam, ethylene oxide, hydrogen peroxide gas plasma and peracetic acid methods; biological and chemical indicators; decontamination, inspection, assembly, and packagingSurgical instrumentation - cutting, grasping, clamping, retracting, and suturing instruments by class and by name, with handling, passing, and care conventionsCase setup and management - preference cards, back table and Mayo stand organization, draping sequences, surgical counts, specimen handling, and medications on the sterile fieldEvery surgical specialty - general and gastrointestinal, obstetric and gynecologic, genitourinary, orthopedic, neurosurgical, cardiothoracic, vascular, otorhinolaryngologic, oral and maxillofacial, ophthalmic, plastic and reconstructive, and pediatric procedures, each with positioning, prep, draping, and the instrumentation the case actually requiresPerioperative patient care - positioning and pressure-point protection, skin preparation, hemostasis, wound classification and healing, drains, dressings, and specimen integritySafety in the surgical environment - room layout and traffic patterns, electrosurgery and laser safety, tourniquet use, surgical fire risk, radiation precautions, and standard precautionsEmergency and advanced situations - malignant hyperthermia, intraoperative hemorrhage, cardiac arrest in the room, and the technologist's role on robotic and endoscopic platformsProfessional practice - the surgical team and its roles, sterile conscience, documentation, ethical and legal responsibility, and preparation for the certifying examination

Built for the way surgical technologists actually learn

Each chapter opens with clear objectives, moves through practice in the order it happens in the room, and closes with the checkpoints that separate a smooth case from a delayed one. Terminology is introduced the way it is used at the field: instrument names, patient positions, prep boundaries, and count protocols stated plainly and used consistently throughout.

Whether you are working through an accredited surgical technology program, preparing for a certifying examination, orienting to a new service line, or returning to the operating room after time away, this handbook gives you one place to build and confirm the knowledge the role demands.

A note on scope: this reference deliberately contains no drug dosing. Dosing changes, varies by institution, and belongs in your own formulary. What does not change is the clinical reasoning, and that is what this book teaches. This book is an independent publication and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any medical board, certification body, or institution

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHRLZKKJ
• ISBN13: 9798171755560
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"