Principles & Practice of Surgery
Principles & Practice of Surgery is a popular, disease-based textbook of clinical surgery written for students and junior trainees. It is the surgical companion text to the renowned Davidson's Principles & Practice of Medicine and is written by a new, primarily Edinburgh-based team of authors. A comprehensive, highly readable resource, it includes chapters on practical procedures and medico-legal problems and enables the reader to fully appreciate both the medical and surgical implications of diseases encountered on surgical wards.
Features
* A 'traditional' system-based approach
* A core text for surgical students
* Includes chapters on practical procedures and medico-legal problems
* A medium-length book which appeals to students
What's New
* A completely new team of editors, along with a large number of new contributors, offer a current, up-to-date approach to the subject.
* Stronger links to the companion text, Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine, give students a seamless method for cross-referencing relevant facts and ideas in general practice and surgery .
* More pediatric issues are highlighted throughout, making this edition a more complete and clinically useful volume.
| Author: |
O.J. Garden, A. W. Bradbury, J. L. R. Forsythe |
| ISBN: |
0443064938 / 9780443101571 |
| Publisher: |
Churchill Livingstone |
| Binding: |
Softcover |
| Year Published: |
March 2002 |
| Contents: |
I. Principles of Surgical Care
2.Metabolic response to surgery
3.Principles of fluid and electrolyte balance
4.Shock
5.Transfusion of blood and blood products
6.Nutritional support in surgical patients
7.Infections and antibiotics
8.Medico-legal issues and consent
9.Principles of surgery for cancer
10.Trauma and multiple injury
II. The Operation
1.Pre-operative assessment and preparation
2.Anesthesia and the operation
3.Practical procedures and patient investigation
4.Post-operative care and complications
5.Day case surgery
III. Upper GI Surgery
1.Abdomen, abdominal wall and hernia
2.Acute abdomen and intestinal obstruction
3.Esophagus
4.Gastroduodenal disorders
IV. Hepatobiliary Surgery
1.Liver and biliary tract
2.Pancreas
3.Spleen
V. Lower GI Surgery
1.Appendix and intestinal surgery
2.Anorectal conditions
VI. Surgical Specialties
1.Plastic and reconstructive surgery
2.Breast
3.Endocrine
4.Vascular surgery
5.Cardiothoracic surgery
6.Urology
7.Neurosurgery
8.Organ transplantation
9. ENT |
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