Essential Surgery
Problems, Diagnosis and Management: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
- 4th Edition - September 19, 2007
- Latest edition
- Author: H. George Burkitt
- Editors: Clive R. G. Quick, Philip J. Deakin
- Language: English
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Description
Description
Essential Surgery is a comprehensive and highly illustrated textbook for clinical students as well as a practical manual for junior doctors and those preparing for postgraduate qualifications in surgery. The unique feature of the book is its problem-orientated nature as distinct to the traditional disease-based structure.
Key features
Key features
- Explains the pathophysiological basis of surgical diseases and of their management to help bridge the gap between the basic medical sciences and clinical problems.
- Adopts a problem-solving rather than a disease-orientated approach to diagnosis and treatment, reflecting current teaching trends which emphasise the full understanding of how a diagnosis is made and why a particular treatment is used.
- Includes information about epidemiology, disease prevention and the provision of health care, and tries to relate the community aspects of surgical problems to aetiology, disease prevention and primary care.
- Contains outlines of common surgical operations, to enable students and junior doctors to explain operations to patients and to allow them to participate intelligently in the operating department, as well as giving them an understanding of how to prevent complications.
- Includes a major section on accident surgery related to the general surgeon.
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section 1 – Disease processes and diagnostic techniques
1. Surgery and the mechanisms of surgical disease
DISEASE PROCESSES
2. Managing physiological change in the surgical patient.
3. Immunology inflammation and infection
4. Shock and resuscitation
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
5. Imaging and interventional techniques in surgery
6. Screening for adult disease
Section 2 – Perioperative Care
7. Preoperative assessment
8. Medical problems
9. Blood transfusion
10. Diagnosis and management of common postoperative problems
11. Principles of operative surgery
12. Complications of surgery and trauma and their prevention.
13. Principles of cancer management
14. Principles of transplantation surgery
Section 3 – Principles of Accident Surgery
15. Major injuries
16. Head and maxillofacial injuries
17. Soft tissue injuries and burns
Section 4 – Symptoms diagnosis and management
ABDOMEN – GENERAL PRINCIPLES
18. Non-acute abdominal pain and other abdominal symptoms and signs
19. The acute abdomen and gastrointestinal haemorrhage
UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL AND HEPATOBILIARY
20. Gallstone diseases and related disorders
21. Peptic ulceration and related disorders
22. Disorders of the oesophagus
23. Tumours of the stomach and small intestine
24. Tumours of the pancreas and hepatobiliary system
25. Pancreatitis
COLOPROCTOLOGY
26. Appendicitis
27. Colorectal polyps and carcinoma
28. Chronic inflammatory bowel disorders
29. Disorders of large bowel motility, structure and perfusion.
30. Anal and perianal disorders
THORACIC SURGERY EXCLUDING CARDIAC
31. Thoracic surgery
GROIN AND MALE GENITALIA
32. Hernias and other groin problems
33. Disorders of the male genitalia
URINARY TRACT
34. Symptoms and signs and investigations of urinary tract disorders
35. Disorders of the prostate
36. Tumours of the kidney and urinary tract
37. Stone disease of the urinary trace
38. Urinary tract infections
39. Congenital disorders and diseases secondarily involving the urinary tract
CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
40. Pathophysiology, clinical features and diagnosis of vascular disease affecting the limbs
41. Managing lower limb arterial insufficiency, the diabetic foot and major amputations
42. Aneurysms and other peripheral arterial diseases
43. Venous disorders of the lower limb
44. Cardiac surgery
THE BREAST
45. Disorders of the breast
THE SKIN
46. Disorders of the skin
THE HEAD AND NECK
47. Lumps in the head and neck and salivary calculi
48. Disorders of the mouth
49. Disorders of the thyroid and parathyroid glands
NEONATAL AND PAEDIATRIC SURGERY
50. Acute surgical problems in children
51. Non-acute abdominal and urological problems in children
Index
1. Surgery and the mechanisms of surgical disease
DISEASE PROCESSES
2. Managing physiological change in the surgical patient.
3. Immunology inflammation and infection
4. Shock and resuscitation
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
5. Imaging and interventional techniques in surgery
6. Screening for adult disease
Section 2 – Perioperative Care
7. Preoperative assessment
8. Medical problems
9. Blood transfusion
10. Diagnosis and management of common postoperative problems
11. Principles of operative surgery
12. Complications of surgery and trauma and their prevention.
13. Principles of cancer management
14. Principles of transplantation surgery
Section 3 – Principles of Accident Surgery
15. Major injuries
16. Head and maxillofacial injuries
17. Soft tissue injuries and burns
Section 4 – Symptoms diagnosis and management
ABDOMEN – GENERAL PRINCIPLES
18. Non-acute abdominal pain and other abdominal symptoms and signs
19. The acute abdomen and gastrointestinal haemorrhage
UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL AND HEPATOBILIARY
20. Gallstone diseases and related disorders
21. Peptic ulceration and related disorders
22. Disorders of the oesophagus
23. Tumours of the stomach and small intestine
24. Tumours of the pancreas and hepatobiliary system
25. Pancreatitis
COLOPROCTOLOGY
26. Appendicitis
27. Colorectal polyps and carcinoma
28. Chronic inflammatory bowel disorders
29. Disorders of large bowel motility, structure and perfusion.
30. Anal and perianal disorders
THORACIC SURGERY EXCLUDING CARDIAC
31. Thoracic surgery
GROIN AND MALE GENITALIA
32. Hernias and other groin problems
33. Disorders of the male genitalia
URINARY TRACT
34. Symptoms and signs and investigations of urinary tract disorders
35. Disorders of the prostate
36. Tumours of the kidney and urinary tract
37. Stone disease of the urinary trace
38. Urinary tract infections
39. Congenital disorders and diseases secondarily involving the urinary tract
CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
40. Pathophysiology, clinical features and diagnosis of vascular disease affecting the limbs
41. Managing lower limb arterial insufficiency, the diabetic foot and major amputations
42. Aneurysms and other peripheral arterial diseases
43. Venous disorders of the lower limb
44. Cardiac surgery
THE BREAST
45. Disorders of the breast
THE SKIN
46. Disorders of the skin
THE HEAD AND NECK
47. Lumps in the head and neck and salivary calculi
48. Disorders of the mouth
49. Disorders of the thyroid and parathyroid glands
NEONATAL AND PAEDIATRIC SURGERY
50. Acute surgical problems in children
51. Non-acute abdominal and urological problems in children
Index
Review quotes
Review quotes
Awarded First Prize British Medical Association Book Awards 2008
"This is the best undergraduate surgical textbook I have seen for a long time. It may contain less detail than some of the classic texts but it is well-balanced for the current medical course. This is a book to be read and studied rather than a synopsis or aide mémoire to surgery to be carried in the pocket. There is of course a market for both but I would see this as being the more useful especially as the purchase price includes web access to the book. This is the book I will now be recommending to my students!"
"The forth edition has been revised extensively. There is an execellent new chapter on screening...The book is divided into four major sections, the largest of which describes the symptoms, diagnosis and management of surgical problems in a traditional disease-based approach. The individual chapters are consistently well written and superbly illustrated."
British Journal of Surgery 2009; 95; 535
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 4
- Latest edition
- Published: September 20, 2007
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
CQ
Clive R. G. Quick
Clive R. G. Quick is a Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon, Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon; Associate Lecturer in Surgery, University of Cambridge; Former Examiner in Basic Sciences and Clinical Surgery for FRCS and MRCS(England).
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon, Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon; Associate Lecturer in Surgery, University of Cambridge; Former Examiner in Basic Sciences and Clinical Surgery for FRCS and MRCS(England), UKPD
Philip J. Deakin
Philip J. Deakin is a General Medical Practitioner, Sheffield, UK
Affiliations and expertise
General Medical Practitioner, Sheffield, UKAbout the author
About the author
HB
H. George Burkitt
Affiliations and expertise
General Medical Practitioner and Medical Author, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia