Category: General Surgery

Hamilton Bailey: A Surgeon’s Life (Greenwich Medical Media) 1st Edition

Hamilton Bailey: A Surgeon’s Life (Greenwich Medical Media) 1st Edition

A ‘warts and all’ biography of one of the pioneers of surgical teaching in the UK, whose name lives on through Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of Surgery, a book still widely used by today’s trainees. This biography not only covers the highlights of Bailey’s surgical career but also sheds light on a complex and often disturbed character, whose life was touched by tragedy. It is illustrated throughout with fascinating archive images.Key features* An easy-to-read and fascinating account of one of the pioneers of modern surgery* The result of meticulous research by the author–contains much previously unpublished material* Illustrated throughout with fascinating archive images ReadershipAll those interested in the history of medicine, especially surgeons, both practicing and retired.

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Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science

A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine.

Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one’s own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is — complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.

Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won’t go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives.

At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor.

Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

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Abernathy’s Surgical Secrets

Abernathy’s Surgical Secrets

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Abernathy’s Surgical Secrets, 7th Edition, features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, and an easy-to-read style – making reference and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

  • The proven Secrets® format gives you the most return for your time – concise, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective.

  • Covers the full range of essential topics in general surgery for in-training or practicing professionals.

  • Written by global experts and thought leaders in surgery.

  • Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.
  • Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime.
  • Fully updated throughout, with clear illustrations, figures, and flow diagrams that expedite study and review.

  • Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Current Surgical Therapy

Elsevier Current Surgical Therapy

An essential resource for written, oral, and recertifying board study, as well as an excellent reference for everyday clinical practice, Current Surgical Therapy, 14th Edition, provides trusted, authoritative advice on today’s best treatment and management options for general surgery. Residents and practitioners alike appreciate the concise, highly formatted approach to each topic, as well as the practical, hands-on advice on selecting and implementing current surgical approaches from today’s preeminent general surgeons. This highly regarded text remains the only surgical reference of its kind, offering a complete array of topics and delivering just the key facts.

  • Covers virtually every problem that a general surgeon may encounter, synthesizing vast amounts of information into concise, digestible chapters.  
  • Provides thoroughly updated information throughout, including focused revisions to the most in-demand topics. 
  • Presents each topic using the same easy-to-follow format: disease presentation, pathophysiology, diagnostics, and surgical therapy. 
  • Includes eight all-new surgical videos covering enteral stents in the treatment of colonic obstruction; multiple management approaches to spigelian, obturator, and lumbar hernias; spontaneous and secondary pneumothorax, and acute mesenteric ischemia. 
  • Features more than 2,000 illustrations―line drawings, graphs, algorithms, clinical/operative photographs, micrographs, and radiological images―including hundreds new to this edition. 
  • Integrates minimally invasive surgical techniques, basic science, and critical care aspects of surgical practice throughout. 
  • Discusses which approach to take, how to avoid or minimize complications, and what outcomes to expect. 
  • Provides a quick, efficient review prior to surgery and when preparing for surgical boards and ABSITEs. 
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices. 

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Basic surgical techniques

Basic surgical techniques

The 5th Edition of this text gives clear, concise guidance on all aspects of acquiring surgical skills to ensure operative success. The full range of surgical procedures is comprehensively reviewed in a clear “how-to-do-it” style. Thoroughly updated and modernized throughout, this latest edition includes new information on laparoscopic procedures and minimal access surgery. Each chapter is now introduced with a summary box, outlining the key issues that are covered. The book also includes nearly 100 completely new illustrations.

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Review of Surgery for ABSITE and Boards 3rd Edition

Review of Surgery for ABSITE and Boards 3rd Edition

Now thoroughly up to date with new topics, new questions, and new contributors, Review of Surgery for ABSITE and Boards, 3rd Edition, fully prepares you for success on surgery exams. Ideal for surgery residents studying for their yearly in-service ABSITE exam or recent graduates preparing for the ABS qualifying exam, this comprehensive review tool contains nearly 1,000 high-quality questions that follow the new ABSITE and board style. Content has been tested for a number of years on Harbor-UCLA and UC Irvine surgical residents and has proven to significantly improve exam scores.

  • Covers a full range of topics aligned with the SCORE (Surgical Council on Residency Education) Curriculum Outline for General Surgery Residents.
  • Accurately reflects the content of standardized tests, with correct answers and detailed explanations (including why the incorrect answers are incorrect) based on information found in major reference works in the field of surgery.
  • Provides a new overview of key concepts with at-a-glance facts at the beginning of each chapter.
  • Covers newer topics such as gynecology, urology, anesthesia, oncology, and tumor biology, reflecting the format of the current exam.
  • Offers online testing that allows you to test yourself and quickly score your responses.
  • Includes new high-yield illustrations by a surgical resident and medical illustrator.
  • Features new assistant editors and chapter authors, including surgical educators and residents with a strong track record of outstanding ABSITE performance.
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Single Surgical Procedures in Obstetrics and Gynaecology-01: Vulva-A Colour Atlas of Surgeries of the Vulva: A.C.A.of Surgeries of The Vulva (Sspo&G Book 1) 1st Edition

Single Surgical Procedures in Obstetrics and Gynaecology-01: Vulva-A Colour Atlas of Surgeries of the Vulva: A.C.A.of Surgeries of The Vulva (Sspo&G Book 1) 1st Edition

This book, A Colour Atlas of Surgeries of the Vulva, is one of the titles in the series of Single Surgical Procedures in Obstetrics and Gynaecology on all gynaecological and obstetrical surgical procedures related to the female genital organs. This book presents varied surgical techniques of the benign pathologies of the vulva. The vulva presents complex clinical pathologies as it is composed of the hair-bearing skin and the inner lined mucosa. The skin and mucosa bearing the complex glandular tissues also contribute to the vulval pathology. All the commonly done obstetrical and gynaecological procedures are illustrated in a step-by-step procedural process. The book will be very useful for the resident gynaecologic surgeons on their surgical procedures as they prepare themselves for a career in gynaecological surgeries.

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Practical Applications of Intravenous Fluids in Surgical Patients

Practical Applications of Intravenous Fluids in Surgical Patients 

This book focuses on practical applications of intravenous fluids in surgical patients. Fluid therapy is one of the most basic interventions spanning across all medical and surgical disciplines. The health care field today is in critical need of skilled professionals to care for patients who require intravenous fluids for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Intravenous fluids are a cornerstone in the treatment of any patient. This book consists of 16 chapters, which include normal water balance, distribution of body fluid, pharmacology of crystalloids, pharmacology of colloids, pharmacology of hydroxyethyl starch, fluid replacement therapy, perioperative fluid therapy in infants and children, fluids therapy in trauma resuscitation, fluid therapy in fever, fluids in intestinal obstruction, fluid management in neurosurgical patients, fluid therapy in traumatic brain injury, fluid management in the ventilated patient, and calculation of fluids. The following chapters describe the administration of fluid therapy for different surgical conditions. Presented in an easy to read format, this highly useful guide includes numerous self-explanatory figures, tables and illustrations to enhance learning.

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Essential Surgery: Problems, Diagnosis and Management 6th Edition

Essential Surgery: Problems, Diagnosis and Management 6th Edition

Essential Surgery is well-established as one of the leading textbooks of surgery for medical students, core surgical trainees and those in professions allied to medicine. Covering general surgery, trauma, orthopaedics, vascular surgery, urology, paediatric surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery and ENT, it also incorporates appropriate levels of basic science throughout. The book is ideal to accompany clinical courses, as well as being a practical manual for readers at more advanced levels requiring a revision aid for exams. Its main aim is to stimulate the reader to a greater enjoyment and understanding of the practice of surgery.

  • The uniformity of the writing style and the clarity of elucidation will encourage continued reading, while the emphasis on the principles of surgery will enable a real understanding of the subject matter.

  • The book incorporates a problem-solving approach wherever possible, emphasising how diagnoses are made and why particular treatments are used.

  • The pathophysiological basis of surgical diseases is discussed in relation to their management, acting as a bridge between basic medical sciences and clinical problems.

  • The book’s extensive use of original illustrations, colour photographs, radiology images, boxes and tables emphasises important concepts and will promote easy revision of topics.

  • The principles of operative surgery and pre-, peri- and postoperative care are explained together with outlines of common operations, enabling students and trainee surgeons to properly understand procedures and to participate intelligently in the operating department.
  • A major and comprehensive revision of the text has taken full account of the progressive evolution of surgery and includes new scientific and clinical concepts that have advanced medical understanding.

  • Ensuring the book’s contents are aligned to the curriculum of the UK Intercollegiate MRCS examination has resulted in the addition of new topics including an emphasis on peri-operative care optimisation, enhanced recovery programmes, antibiotic use and resistance, updated cancer staging, minimally invasive surgery, and the evolving role of interventional radiology.

  • Additional essential governance and management topics are covered, including patient safety, surgical ethics, communication, consent, clinical audit and principles of research.

  • The broad experience of surgical teaching and training of two new editors and many new contributors, all with sub-specialist expertise, have brought a contemporary perspective on the book’s contents and its presentation.

  • New national and international guidelines for managing common disorders have been incorporated where appropriate, including major haemorrhage management pathways and trauma.

  • There are new dedicated chapters on major trauma management and elective orthopaedics.

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