Sara Busch provides coverage of the veterinary nurse/technician's role in small animal surgery. Topics covered include asepsis, operating room protocol, instrumentation, sterile technique, suture materials, suturing techniques and pre- and post-operativecare of animals.

Preoperative considerations: Preoperative patient -- Scrubbed personnel -- Operating room and asepsis -- Surgical supplies and equipment -- Intraoperative considerations: Interoperative patient -- Surgical assisting -- Specific procedures -- Postoperative considerations: postoperative patient -- Surgery room -- Instrument cleaning and sterilization -- Client education for postoperative care -- High-volume spay/neuter clinics: Spay/neuter clinics-the patients, facilities, need, and process.