Main description:

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

Contents:

SECTION 1 PRINCIPLES OF PERIOPERATIVE CARE

Metabolic response to injury, fluid and electrolyte balance and shock
Transfusion of blood components and plasma products
Nutritional support in surgical patients
Infections and antibiotics
Ethics, pre-operative considerations, anaesthesia and analgesia
Principles of the surgical management of cancer
Trauma and multiple injury
Practical procedures and patient investigation
Post-operative care and complications
Evidence-based practice and professional development
SECTION 2 GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY

The abdominal wall and hernia
The acute abdomen and intestinal obstruction
The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
The liver and biliary tract
The pancreas and spleen
The small and large intestine
The anorectum
SECTION 3 SURGICAL SPECIALTIES

Plastic and reconstructive surgery
The breast
Endocrine surgery
Vascular and endovascular surgery
Cardiothoracic surgery
Urological surgery
Neurosurgery
Transplantation surgery
Ear, nose and throat surgery
Orthopaedic surgery

Appendix Laboratory reference ranges