Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery and Emergencies in Clinical Surgery Pack

by McLatchie, Greg; Borley, Neil; Chikwe, Joanna; Callaghan, Christopher; Bradley, Andrew; Watson, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780199546565
• ISBN10: 0199546568
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Thoroughly revised with a wide range of new topics, presentations, and a new layout to aid quick references, the new edition of this best-selling Oxford Handbook serves as an accessible pocket reference for junior surgical trainees, medical students, nurses, and paramedics. This handbook covers the assessment and preparation of the patient, anaesthesia and critical care, inflammation, wound healing and infection, and the key components of general surgical practice, as well as chapters on other surgical specialties, including plastic, paediatric, and orthopaedic surgery. There are step by step descriptions of common operative surgical techniques, practical hints and procedures, and information on signs, symptoms, and rarities. Emergency presentations are clearly identified for rapid reference and investigations and management plans are set out in a clear and easy way to follow. Surgically relevant antomy and physiology is provided for each area, quick reference symbols ensure that that reader is guide to key facts and there is an increased focus on evidence-based practice throughout. A cut above the rest, this is the essential guide to clinical surgery and the surgical specialties.

Author Biography

Mr Neil Borley trained at Guy's Hospital Medical School, Cambridge, Canterbury and Oxford. He is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon with an interest in the education and training of undergraduate and postgraduate students of basic sciences and surgery. He is also an examiner in surgery.
Mr Christopher Callaghan qualified in medicine from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and did his basic surgical training in Cambridge, UK. After completing his PhD in transplantation immunology at the University of Cambridge he was appointed as a Specialist Registrar in General Surgery in East Anglia and as a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge. He has interests in transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery.

Table of Contents

Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery Third Edition

Good surgical practice

Principles of surgery

Surgical pathology

Practical hints and procedures

Head and neck

Breast surgery

Upper gastrointestinal surgery

Liver, pancreatic and biliary surgery

Abdominal wall

Urology

Colorectal surgery

Paediatric surgery

Trauma

Orthopaedics and trauma

Plastic surgery

Cardiothoracic surgery

Peripheral vascular disease

Transplantation

Surgery in tropical diseases

Eponymous signs, syndromes and rarities

Emergencies in Clinical Surgery

Introduction

Preparing the patient for surgery

Trauma emergencies

The acute abdomen

Ward emergencies

Abdominal wall hernias

Oesophagus and stomach

Liver and biliary tree

Pancreas and spleen

Small and large bowel

The anus and anal canal

Breast and endocrine surgery

Vascular surgery

Paediatric surgery

Urology

Orthopaedic surgery

Neurosurgery

Cardiothoracic surgery

Miscellaneous conditions

Procedures

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