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.
- Easy to read, logical to follow
- Summary boxes and evidence boxes throughout to complement the text
- Superbly presented with line drawings, high quality radiographic images and colour photographs to help in exams and in the clinical setting.
- Aligned with undergraduate and postgraduate surgical curricula
- New chapters on professional and ethical responsibilities, global surgery, patient safety and clinical human factors
- Comprehensive information on global surgical practice
- Full online and eBook version available as part of Student Consult
Table of Contents
1 Professional and ethical responsibilities
2 Patient safety and clinical human factors
3 Evidence-based surgery
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
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
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
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