by O. James Garden, CBE BSc MB ChB MD DSc(Hon) FRCS(Glas) FRCS(Ed), FRCP(Ed) FRSE FRACS(Hon) FRCSCan(Hon) FACS(Hon), FRCS(Hon) FCSHK(Hon) FRCSI(Hon), Rowan W. Parks, MB BCh BAO MD FRCSI FRCS(Ed) FFST(Ed) and Stephen J. Wigmore, BSc MBBS MD FRCS(Ed) FRCP(Ed) FRSE
This comprehensive textbook is the surgical companion to the international bestseller, Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine. It provides an overview of core surgical topics encountered in an integrated medical curriculum and, later, in the clinical setting. The book takes a succinct and practical approach to the understanding of surgical disease and care of the surgical patient. It offers comprehensive coverage of the key surgical specialties and includes emerging issues around patient safety and the critical importance of clinical human factors in surgical practice. Fully updated to reflect changes in understanding and evidence-based practice, this is a text that keeps the student up to date and that no trainee surgeon should be without.
SECTION 1 Professional capabilities in surgical practice 1. Professional and ethical responsibilities 2. Patient safety and clinical human factors 3. Evidence-based surgery
SECTION 2 Principles of perioperative care 4. Management of shock, fluid management and blood transfusion 5. Nutritional support in surgical patients 6. Infections and antibiotics 7. Preoperative considerations, anaesthesia and analgesia 8. Principles of the surgical management of cancer 9. Trauma and multiple injury 10. Practical procedures and patient investigation 11. Postoperative care and complications
SECTION 3 Gastrointestinal surgery 12. The abdominal wall and hernia 13. The acute abdomen 14. The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum 15. The liver and biliary tract 16. The pancreas and spleen 17. The small and large intestine 18. The anorectum
SECTION 4 Surgical specialties 19. Plastic surgery, including common skin and subcutaneous lesions 20. Breast surgery 21. Endocrine surgery 22. Vascular and endovascular surgery 23. Cardiothoracic surgery 24. Urological surgery 25. Neurosurgery 26. Transplantation surgery 27. Ear, nose and throat surgery 28. Orthopaedic surgery 29. Global surgery and anaesthesia
O. James Garden, CBE BSc MB ChB MD DSc(Hon) FRCS(Glas) FRCS(Ed), FRCP(Ed) FRSE FRACS(Hon) FRCSCan(Hon) FACS(Hon), FRCS(Hon) FCSHK(Hon) FRCSI(Hon), Professor Emeritus, Clinical Surgery, Director, Edinburgh Surgery Online, University of Edinburgh, UK, Rowan W. Parks, MB BCh BAO MD FRCSI FRCS(Ed) FFST(Ed), Professor of Surgical Sciences, Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic SurgeonRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK and Stephen J. Wigmore, BSc MBBS MD FRCS(Ed) FRCP(Ed) FRSE, Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK
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