Main description:

Principles and Practice of Surgery is the surgical companion textbook to the international medical bestseller Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine. It is a comprehensive textbook for both the surgical student and trainee, guiding the reader through key core surgical topics which are encountered throughout an integrated medical curriculum as well as in subsequent clinical practice. Although sharing the same format and style as Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine, this text is complete in itself, thus enabling the student to appreciate both the medical and surgical implications of diseases encountered in surgical wards.

Contents:

Section 1 Principles of perioperative care.

1 Metabolic response to injury, fluid and electrolyte balance and shock

2 Transfusion of blood components and plasma product

3 Nutritional support in surgical patients

4 Infections and antibiotics

5 Ethics, pre-operative considerations, anaesthesia and analgesia

6 Principles of the surgical management of cancer

7 Trauma and multiple injury

8 Practical procedures and patient investigation

9 Post-operative care and complications

10 Day surgery

Section 2 Gastrointestinal surgery.

11 The abdominal wall and hernia

12 The acute abdomen and intestinal obstruction

13 The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum

14 The liver and biliary tract

15 The pancreas and spleen

16 The small and large intestine

17 The anorectum

Section 3 Surgical specialties.

18 Plastic and reconstructive surgery

19 The breast

20 Endocrine surgery

21 Vascular and endovascular surgery

22 Cardiothoracic surgery

23 Urological surgery

24 Neurosurgery

25 Transplantation surgery

26 Ear, nose and throat surgery

27 Orthopaedic surgery