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 Appendix
