This new edition of this classic perioperative text has addressed

changing roles, needs, and evolving technologies while

maintaining the fundamental focus that still remains valid―the

care of the surgical patient. Th is edition of the text identifi es the

knowledge and skill needs of the caregiver and strives to incorporate

components of patient care from preoperative, intraoperative,

and postoperative practice areas. A systems approach is introduced

to help organize patient care to minimize the risk for human error.

Completely redesigned in an attractive new format, this popular manual provides students andpractitioners with a comprehensive guide to human anatomy and a dissection guide recognizedthroughout the world. For the new edition, the dissection guide has been separated from thetext and remodeled to make it more distinctive and easier to read, and the text itself has beengreatly expanded, with new sections on embryology, organogenesis, congenital malformationsof clinical significance, and the new imaging and diagnostic techniques such as CT scanning.