Main description:

Oxford Specialist Handbooks are portable, succinct, and above all reliable guides to difficult and challenging areas of surgical practice. The second edition of Vascular Surgery has been fully revised and updated to meet the needs of the vascular surgery trainee. Providing practical advice on all commonly encountered peripheral vascular problems.

It focuses on surgical detail, but also carries background information on presentation and details on preoperative investigation and postoperative management. It gives relevant information for use when seeking patient consent. Each operation carries the latest OPCS code, increasingly important in recording surgical activity.

Contents:

1. Arterial and venous disease ; 2. Arterial history and examination ; 3. Venous history and examination ; 4. Investigation of arterial and venous disease ; 5. non-operative treatment of arterial and venous infection ; 6. Management of complex leg ulcers and infection ; 7. Perioperative management of ischaemic heart disease ; 8. Anaesthesia for vascular surgery ; 9. Managing coagulation and bleeding ; 10. Infection prophylaxis and treatment ; 11. Graft material in bypass grafting ; 12. Techniques of vascular surgery ; 13. Aortic surgery ; 14. Infrainguinal revascularisation ; 15. Lower limb amputation ; 16. Vascular surgery of head and arm ; 17. Surgical revascularisation of kidneys ; 18. Revascularisation of the gut ; 19. Extra-anatomic bypass grafts ; 20. Vascular Trauma ; 21. Venous surgery ; 22. The future of vascular surgery