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"Principles and Techniques for the Aspiring Surgeon is an easy-to-read, handbook-style guide to learning the core principles and techniques required to establish strong foundational surgical skills. This book will help readers learn key maneuvers like one-handed, two-handed, and instrument tying, suturing, surgical scrubbing, gowning, gloving, prepping, draping, and instrument selection. In addition, this book provides information on the underlying principles underpinning these techniques and instruments to help readers identify the correct tool and technique for the correct job and deploy it efficiently. The book uses a hierarchical task analysis to break down each technical maneuver into small, easily understood and performed steps. With diagrams at each step, readers will never be confused or lost when learning these key maneuvers again."