Core Topics in General and Emergency Surgery, 7th Edition

Prelims
1 Evaluation of surgical literature
2 Peri-operative care and enhanced recovery
3 Quality improvement in emergency surgery
4 Patient assessment and surgical risk
5 Perioperative intensive care management of the surgical patient
6 Surgical nutrition
7 Abdominal hernias
8 Neck surgery for the general surgeon
9 Human factors and patient safety in surgery
10 Principles of organ donation and transplantation
11 The acute abdomen: early assessment and investigation
12 Perforations of the upper gastrointestinal tract
13 Acute non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding
14 Pancreaticobiliary emergencies
15 Acute conditions of the small bowel and appendix
16 Colonic emergencies
17 Anorectal emergencies
18 Paediatric surgical emergencies
19 Management of trauma for the general surgeon
20 Abdominal sepsis and abdominal compartment syndrome
21 Operating on the obese patient and complications of bariatric surgery
22 Introduction of new technologies into Surgical practice

Hugh M. Paterson, BMedSci MBChB MD FRCS(Ed), Clinical Senior Lecturer Coloproctology, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon,Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK and Chris Deans, MBChB Hons, MD Distinction, FRCS GenSurg, Consultant General & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and Part-time Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland