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• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Preface
• Preface
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Section 1. Professional capabilities in surgical practice
• 1. Professional and ethical responsibilities
• Introduction
• Principles of Medical Ethics
• Summary
• 2. Patient safety and clinical human factors
• Introduction
• History of Patient Safety in Surgery
• Methods to detect harm
• Clinical Human Factors
• Nontechnical Skills
• Practical tools to enhance surgical safety
• Conclusion
• 3. Evidence-based surgery
• Introduction
• Formulating a clinical question
• Finding the evidence
• Critical appraisal
• BIAS
• Research in practice
• Summary
• Section 2. Principles of perioperative care
• 4. Management of shock, fluid management and blood transfusion
• Fluid and electrolyte balance
• Shock
• Blood transfusion
• 5. Nutritional support in surgical patients
• Introduction
• Assessment of nutritional status
• Assessment of nutritional requirements
• Causes of inadequate intake
• Methods of providing nutritional support
• Refeeding Syndrome
• Monitoring of nutritional support
• 6. Infections and antibiotics
• Introduction
• Infection prevention and control in surgery
• Antimicrobial stewardship in surgery
• Approach to a patient with a possible or probable infection
• Infection syndromes encountered in surgical practice
• 7. Preoperative considerations, anaesthesia and analgesia
• Preoperative considerations
• Perioperative implications of chronic disease
• Day surgery
• Anaesthesia and the Operation
• Postoperative analgesia
• 8. Principles of the surgical management of cancer
• The biology of cancer
• The management of patients with cancer
• 9. Trauma and multiple injury
• Introduction
• Mechanisms of injury
• Injury severity and scoring systems
• Trauma systems, centres and teams
• Shock
• Resuscitation
• Imaging
• Critical Decision Making
• Surgery for trauma
• 10. Practical procedures and patient investigation
• Introduction
• General principles of practical procedures
• Common practical procedures
• 11. Postoperative care and complications
• Introduction
• Immediate postoperative care
• Complications of anaesthesia and surgery
• Section 3. Gastrointestinal surgery
• 12. The abdominal wall and hernia
• Umbilicus
• Disorders of the rectus muscle
• Abdominal hernia
• 13. The acute abdomen
• Introduction
• Aetiology
• Pathophysiology of abdominal pain
• Pathogenesis
• Clinical assessment
• Peritonitis
• Acute appendicitis
• Nonspecific abdominal pain
• Gynaecologic causes of the acute abdomen
• 14. The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
• Surgical anatomy
• Surgical physiology
• History and symptoms
• Examination
• Investigations
• Diagnosis and management: oesophagus
• Tumours of the oesophagus
• Diagnosis and management: gastroduodenal
• Management of uncomplicated peptic ulcer disease
• Gastric neoplasia
• Miscellaneous disorders of the stomach
• Miscellaneous conditions of the duodenum
• 15. The liver and biliary tract
• The liver
• The gallbladder and bile ducts
• 16. The pancreas and spleen
• The pancreas
• The spleen
• 17. The small and large intestine
• Introduction
• Surgical anatomy and physiology
• Clinical assessment of the small and large intestine
• Principles of operative intestinal surgery
• Disorders of the appendix
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Disorders of the small intestine
• Small and large bowel obstruction
• Nonneoplastic disorders of the large intestine
• Intestinal stoma and fistula
• Polyps and Polyposis Syndromes of the Large Intestine
• Malignant tumours of the large intestine
• 18. The anorectum
• Introduction
• Applied Surgical Anatomy
• Miscellaneous Benign Perianal Lumps
• Anal Cancer
• Rectal Prolapse
• Anal Incontinence
• Pruritus Ani
• Pilonidal Disease
• Section 4. Surgical specialties
• 19. Plastic surgery, including common skin and subcutaneous lesions
• Introduction
• Structure and Function of the Skin
• Wounds
• Burns
• Skin and Soft Tissue Lesions
• 20. Breast surgery
• Anatomy and physiology of the breast
• Assessment of the patient with breast symptoms
• Radiologic assessment
• Benign breast conditions
• Breast cancer
• Male breast cancer
• Breast cancer in pregnancy
• Breast reconstruction
• Follow-up
• Breast screening
• Psychological aspects
• Recurrent breast cancer (Fig. 20.39)
• Metastatic breast cancer (Fig. 20.40)
• 21. Endocrine surgery
• Introduction
• Thyroid gland
• Parathyroid glands
• Pituitary gland
• Adrenal gland
• Functioning adrenal cortical adenomas
• Other surgical endocrine syndromes
• 22. Vascular and endovascular surgery
• Introduction
• Pathophysiology of Arterial Disease
• Chronic Lower-Limb Arterial Disease
• Arterial Disease of the Upper Limb
• Mesenteric Artery Disease
• Acute Limb Ischaemia
• Venous Disease
• Venous Thromboembolism
• Other Forms of Venous Thrombosis
• Lymphoedema
• Vascular Access for Haemodialysis
• 23. Cardiothoracic surgery
• Introduction
• Symptoms of cardiothoracic disease
• Cardiac surgery
• Thoracic surgery
• 24. Urological surgery
• Assessment
• Upper urinary tract (kidney and ureter)
• Infections of the kidney
• Lower urinary tract (bladder, prostate and urethra)
• Disorders of micturition: incontinence
• External genitalia
• 25. Neurosurgery
• Introduction
• Surgical anatomy and physiology
• Blood supply
• Intracranial pressure
• Investigations
• Cerebrovascular disease
• Neurotrauma
• Intracranial infections
• Intracranial tumours
• Spinal dysraphism
• Hydrocephalus
• Malformations of the skull
• Functional neurosurgery
• Vertebral column
• Peripheral nerve lesions
• 26. Transplantation surgery
• Introduction
• Transplant immunology
• Organ donation
• Renal transplantation
• Pancreas transplantation
• Pancreatic islet transplantation
• Heart and lung transplantation
• 27. Ear, nose and throat surgery
• Ear
• Nose
• Paranasal sinuses
• Nasopharynx
• Oral cavity
• Oropharynx
• Hypopharynx
• Larynx
• Neck
• 28. Orthopaedic surgery
• Introduction
• History
• Examination
• Description of deformity
• Investigations
• Osteoarthritis: degenerative disease of the joints
• Inflammatory disorders
• Bone and joint infection
• Orthopaedic procedures
• Paediatric orthopaedic surgery
• Metabolic bone diseases
• Musculoskeletal tumours
• The upper limb
• The lower limb
• Trauma and fractures
• 29. Global surgery and anaesthesia
• Defining Global Surgery
• The Importance of Surgery and Anaesthesia in Global Health and Universal Health Coverage
• Measuring Global Surgery and Anaesthesia
• Quality Improvement and Implementation
• National Surgical, Obstetric and Anaesthetic Planning
• Ethics in Global Surgery and Anaesthesia
• Appendix. Laboratory reference ranges
• Index