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Essential Practice of Surgery Basic Science and Clinical Evidence

This is a condensed version of the critically acclaimed "Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence."
Essential Practice of Surgery provides a state-of-the-art, evidence-based approach to surgery for surgeons and residents. The book is divided into eight comprehensive sections, providing the succinct coverage of critical topics: Care of the Surgical Patient; Gastrointestinal & Abdominal Disease; Endocrine Surgery; Vascular Surgery; Cardiothoracic Surgery; Transplantation; Cancer; and Associated Disciplines. More than 250 illustrations and 340 tables, including 62 evidence-based tables, complement the text.

Reviews
"...a fresh approach... the book emphasizes the basic science underlying the practice of surgery and the evidence supporting clinical decisions. The text is clearly written and the chapters are well-illustrated. There is also a unique feature: several hundred evidence-based tables. These tables allow the reader to reach conclusions on the basis of data." New England Journal of Medicine

"Is it different from the existing textbooks of surgery? Did the different from the existing textbooks of surgery? Did the authors achieve their principal goal of providing an evidence-based approach to surgical decision making? Would I recommend it to the surgical residents in my program?...the answer to all these questions is yes. The ambitious undertaking of creating an evidence-based textbook of surgery has largely succeeded and I heartily recommend it." Journal of the American Medical Association