Essential Surgical Practice

Essential Surgical Practice: Higher Surgical Training in General Surgery is an indispensable source of reference for the surgical trainee. This fifth volume is fully updated and caters for the needs of the senior trainee surgeon undertaking higher surgical training in general surgery, providing detailed information on those specialties which the general surgeon is required to have a working knowledge of, with a special emphasis on trauma and vascular surgery. Significant changes in surgical training have occurred over the past decade and Essential Surgical Practice reflects this by dividing the chapters into three distinct parts: general patient care; trauma; general surgical care. The text is structured to be highly patient-oriented in line with current thought and practice, with a firm underpinning of pathophysiology. Essential Surgical Practice: Higher Surgical Training in General Surgery will be an indispensable source of reference for all surgical trainees and can be used with confidence in association with local studies and distance learning courses. The content is consistent with the scope and level of information required for international postgraduate examinations. Features Includes over 500 detailed color illustrations the surgical procedures Fully updated to provide a unique all-encompassing text for the higher surgical trainee Reflects current practice and the FRCS syllabus Highlights key points throughout the chapters to provide quick reference to the reader Designed for surgical trainees worldwide Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri MD(Hon), FRCSEd., FRCSEng, Director of the Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Universities of Dundee and St Andrews, Scotland, UK Professor George B Hanna PhD FRCS, Professor of Surgical Sciences, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK Praise for the Previous Edition "I have little doubt it will remain a popular reference book, and rightly so. The text is comprehensive yet succinct, and is laid out in a style that permits relatively easy and focused reading." —British Journal of Surgery Table of Contents Part 1: General section Surgical biology and pathology; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Surgical craft approaches and technologies; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Risk assessment and prognostic indices in surgery; Omar Faiz Care of the patient in the perioperative period; Helgi Johannsson and Vafa Mansoubi Patient-reported outcomes to evaluate surgery; Jane M Blazeby Intensive and high dependency care; Nicolas Price, Arup Chakraborty, and Martin Stotz Anaemia, hypovolaemia and oedema; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Cardiovascular pathophysiology; P George, J George and Allan D Struthers Pulmonary insufficiency; Elizabeth Starren, William Oldfield and Onn Min Kon Renal insufficiency; N Duncan and RW Corbett Surgical infections and infestations; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Surgical nutrition; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Interventional radiology in general surgery; Mohamad S Hamady Trauma and the injured patient; Leslie Kobayashi, Raul Coimbra and David Hoyt Head injuries, pathophysiology and management; Sam Eljamel Part 2: Specialist general surgery Disorders of the skin and soft tissues; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Disorders of the breast; Alistair M. Thompson and John A. Dewar Disorders of the thyroid gland; David Smith Disorders of the parathyroid gland; David Smith Disorders of the adrenal glands; David Smith Disorders of the abdominal wall, peritoneal cavity and retroperitoneum; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Disorders of the oesophagus; George B Hanna and Sir Alfred Cuschieri Disorders of the stomach and duodenum; Sir Alfred Cuschieri and George B Hanna Disorders of the liver; Francesco M. Polignano, John F. Dillon, Ian A. Zealley, Aaron J. Quyn, Aileen Smith and Sir Alfred Cuschieri　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Disorders of the biliary tract; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Disorders of the spleen and lymph nodes; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Disorders of the pancreas; Sir Alfred Cuschieri and AR Moosa Bariatric surgery; Ahmed R Ahmed and Carel le Roux Disorders of the small intestine and vermiform appendix; Sir Alfred Cuschieri Disorders of the colon and rectum; Paris Tekkis, Panayiotis Georgiou, Edward Fitzgerald and Emile Tan Disorders of the anal canal; Ken Campbell