Contents:

SECTION 1: Concepts and Attitude

1. Surgical Deportment and Opinion: I Think, Therefore I Am

2. Join the Race or be Left Behind - "Staying Abreast"

3. Panic and the Surgeon: "To Fuse or Defuse"

4. Self-doubt, Self-audit, Self-reliance - Optimizing Competence: Confidence Ratio

5. Conceptualization and Visualization of an Operation: Preparation for Surgery

6. Art of Assistance in Surgery: "Standing beside You"

7. The Art of Selecting a Suitable Incision in Surgery and Art of Retraction

8. Approach to a Lady as a Surgical Patient

9. Approach to a Child as a Surgical Patient

10. Pain - Friend or Foe

11. Progress in Minimal Access Surgery

12.Tissue Handling: "Gently does it"

SECTION 2: Surgeon and His Tools

13. Catheters and Cannulas

14. Electrocautery - Arts and Principles: A Fundamental Concept

15. Hypodermic Needles - Intramuscular and Intravenous

16. Needles - Solid Needles

17. Stumps

18. Sutures and Suturing Techniques

19. Drains and Tubes

20. Dressings

21. Knots and Knotting Techniques

22. Painting, Draping, and Positioning in Surgery

23. Vascular Anastomosis

24. How to Send a Sample for Biopsy?

25. Sample Collection in Microbiology

26. Use of Ultrasound in the Operation Theater: Vascular and Non-vascular Uses

27. Surgeon and Surgical Instruments

SECTION 3: Young Surgeon as the First Responder

28. Anesthetist as the First Responder

29. Orthopedic Trauma

30. Superficial Injuries and Burns

31. Trauma and the Vascular Surgeon

32. Primary Management of Ocular Trauma in Polytrauma

33. Roadside Trauma in a Pregnant Patient: The Obstetrician's Role

SECTION 4: Ward Procedure Skills

34. Central Venous Line Insertion

35. Nasogastric Tube and Insertion Technique

36. Abdominal Paracentesis and Thoracocentesis

37. Epistaxis

38. Fine-needle Aspiration Cytology

39. Intra-articular Aspiration, Injection, and Soft Tissue Injection

40. Liver Biopsy

41. Lumbar Puncture

42. Urinary Catheterization: How to do it Safely