Main description:

The previous edition won first Prize (Surgery category) at the BMA Awards 2005. The judges' comment: 'A comprehensive and attractively presented 4-colour textbook of surgery aimed primarily at medical students but also of use to junior doctors and surgical technicians. The book has two key features: firstly, it provides students with coverage of every aspect of surgery; secondly, it has been designed and written to be the 'surgical companion' to Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine. This new edition will also offer an online version to all purchasers of the book - the first surgical textbook in the UK to make an electronic version available.' .

Contents:

SECTION 1 - GENERAL ISSUES 1. Surgery -- what it is and what a surgeon does 2. Legal and ethical issues, and organisation of surgical services 3. Accident and emergency 4. Investigation of the surgical patient 5. The operation 6. Anaesthesia and pain control 7. Perioperative management and postoperative complications 8. Wound healing and management 9. Surgical infection 10. The seriously ill and injured patient 11. Practical procedures 12. Principles of surgical oncology 13. Organ transplantation SECTION 2 - REGIONAL SURGERY 14. The neck and upper aerodigestive tract 15. Ear and nose 16. Chest and lungs 17. Cardiac surgery 18. Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum 19. Liver and biliary tree 20. The spleen 21. The pancreas 22. Acute abdominal conditions 23. Small-bowel disease and intestinal obstruction 24. Large bowel, including appendix 25. Anal and related disorders 26. Hernia 27. Breast disease 28. Arterial surgery 29. Venous and lymphatic disorders SECTION 3 - SURGICAL SPECIALTIES 30. Neurosurgery 31. Surgery of the endocrine glands 32. Urology 33. Principles of orthopaedics 34. Principles of management of fractures, joint injuries and peripheral nerve injuries 35. Principles of paediatric surgery 36. Ophthalmology in clinical surgery 37. Principles of plastic surgery 38. Skin disorders 39. Surgery in the tropics Index