- Comprehensive coverage in every major surgical specialty meets and goes beyond the AST Core Curriculum standards. - Over 700 full-color illustrations and photos help you familiarize yourself with surgical anatomy, instrumentation, procedures, and methods. - The Surgical Technologist Preference Card outlines the materials a surgical technologist should have ready or available for a procedure within each surgical specialty. It serves as a checklist or guideline overview of how to prepare for procedures in the surgical specialty. - Surgical Pharmacology tables summarize the drugs most commonly used for specific surgical procedures, including generic/trade names, purpose/description, and pharmacokinetics. - Special feature boxes include Surgical Technologist Considerations, Geriatric Considerations, Risk Reduction Strategies, Research Highlights, Rapid Response Team, Surgical Pharmacology, Ambulatory Surgery Considerations, Evidence for Practice, Patient Safety, and History, which all highlight important information. - Learning features in each chapter include learning objectives, chapter outline, a summary, review questions, critical thinking questions, and references