Main description:

Clinical Surgery: A Practical Guide is a handbook for all trainees in surgery, providing an invaluable and expert guide to all aspects of clinical surgery that the trainee will encounter during their day to day work. General chapters on clinical examination, pre-operative, peri-operative and post-operative care are accompanied by expert guidance on how to deal with specific surgical problems, such as respiratory failure, wound healing, MRSA infection, tropical surgery and acute ischaemia. Further chapters provide invaluable information on topics including nutrition, anaesthsia, sutures and surgical incisions. The special problems associated with the surgical management of elderly patients are discussed, and the reader is introduced to the principles of surgical oncology and laparoscopic surgery.

With its concise and easy-to read layout, Clinical Surgery: A Practical Guide is written by a team of expert surgeons, some of whom are also examiners for the Royal College of Surgeons. It is an invaluable on-the-job guide for Foundation level doctors on surgical rotation, as well as for those studying for the MRCS, FRCS and equivalent examinations.

Contents:

Preoperative care. Perioperative care. Postoperative care. Cardiovascular monitoring. Shock, blood transfusion and coagulation. Management of acute kidney injury in surgical patients. Respiratory failure and acid-base balance. Wound healing and the metabolic response to surgery. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis. Management of intestinal fistulae and enteral and parenteral nutrition. Management of surgical jaundice. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Management of severely injured patients. Management of abdominal trauma. Management of acute abdomen. Chronic critical limb ischaemia and the diabetic foot. Laparoscopic surgery. Management of surgery in obese patients. Management of surgery in elderly patients. Day surgery. Antimicrobial prophylaxis, meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile-associated infection. Viral hepatitis and HIV infection in surgical practice. Medical therapy for surgical patients. Principles of surgical oncology. Sutures, surgical incisions and surgical anastomoses. Principles of anaesthesia. Surgical considerations in hydatid disease. Surgical considerations in schistosomiasis and filariasis. Surgical considerations in tuberculosis. Surgical considerations in typhoid.