References

Every course here is written against a named anchor text — one standard work whose terminology and topic boundaries the course follows — and checked against a secondary witness written independently of it. Where the two disagree, the course follows the anchor and says so at the entry where the disagreement lands. These are the texts for Tech in Surgery Prep.

Anchor

OpenStax. Medical-Surgical Nursing (2024), chapters 25-27 (preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care), and Fundamentals of Nursing (2024), chapters 9-11 and 31. Rice University.

CC BY 4.0 openstax.org/

Anchor

OpenStax. Clinical Nursing Skills, Pharmacology for Nurses, Maternal-Newborn Nursing, Anatomy and Physiology 2e and Microbiology (selected sections). Rice University.

CC BY 4.0 openstax.org/

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Ernstmeyer, K., and E. Christman, eds. Open RN Nursing Skills (chapters 4 and 20) and Nursing Pharmacology, 2nd ed. Chippewa Valley Technical College.

CC BY 4.0 wtcs.pressbooks.pub/

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CDC/HICPAC. Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities (2008, updated) and 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions.

www.cdc.gov/infection-control/hcp/

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OSHA. 29 CFR 1910.1030, Bloodborne Pathogens, and the Hospitals eTool: Surgical Suite and Laser/Electrosurgery Plume pages.

www.osha.gov/etools/hospitals/surgical-suite

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FDA Preventing Surgical Fires Initiative. Practical Advice for Preventing Surgical Fires (2012).

www.fda.gov/

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Electrosurgery safety reviews: Complications of electrosurgery: mechanisms and prevention strategies (Facts Views Vis ObGyn, 2024) and Electrosurgical units: how they work and how to use them safely (Community Eye Health, 2015).

CC BY

Witness

World Health Organization. Guidelines for Safe Surgery 2009 and Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2nd ed. (2018).

www.who.int/

Witness

AHRQ Patient Safety Network primers on retained surgical items, wrong-site surgery and handoffs.

psnet.ahrq.gov/

Witness

American College of Surgeons, Common Surgical Instruments module and Preference Card Optimization Campaign: Terminology Guide; and instrument references from STERIS, TeachMeSurgery and others, restated only.

Naming the anchor is not a claim of endorsement by its publisher, and the course is not affiliated with any of the works above. Openly licensed texts carry their licence beside them; the rest are cited, not reproduced.