Essential Surgery
Problems, Diagnosis and Management
- 7th Edition - July 11, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Clive R. G. Quick, Suzanne Biers, Tan Arulampalam, Philip J. Deakin
- Language: English
Essential Surgery is a highly respected, internationally popular textbook that is comprehensive, fully updated and a pleasure to read.The seventh edition provides comprehensive… Read more
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Description
Description
Essential Surgery is a highly respected, internationally popular textbook that is comprehensive, fully updated and a pleasure to read.
The seventh edition provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, from the attributes a surgeon needs, to how to interpret a patient’s story, as well as problem-orientated information about diseases and their management, including emergencies. It covers the full range of surgery, including general and gastro-intestinal surgery, trauma, orthopaedics, vascular surgery, urology, paediatric surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery and ENT emergencies.
With a logical layout, clear writing style and extensive use of illustrations, this book is ideal for clinical students, surgical trainees in their first few years, as well as for those in professions allied to medicine.
The seventh edition provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, from the attributes a surgeon needs, to how to interpret a patient’s story, as well as problem-orientated information about diseases and their management, including emergencies. It covers the full range of surgery, including general and gastro-intestinal surgery, trauma, orthopaedics, vascular surgery, urology, paediatric surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery and ENT emergencies.
With a logical layout, clear writing style and extensive use of illustrations, this book is ideal for clinical students, surgical trainees in their first few years, as well as for those in professions allied to medicine.
Key features
Key features
- Fully updated for its seventh edition – provides the latest evidence and detailed information
- Covers topics not typically covered in other surgical textbooks including managing soft tissue and orthopaedic trauma, plus sections on plastic surgery, neurosurgery, blood transfusion and applied microbiology
- Incorporates a problem-solving approach wherever possible – explains how diagnoses are made and why particular treatments are used
- Emphasis on the principles of surgery and perioperative care – provides a real understanding of the field
- Clear, logical layout and hundreds of illustrations – easy to read and understand
- Written by experts in their field, and closely edited for easy comprehension
- Covers the syllabus of the MRCS examination and is also suitable as a refresher for higher surgical trainees preparing for the FRCS and other higher surgical exams
- Text boxes and tables reinforce important contents and support revision
- An enhanced eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customise your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Readership
Readership
Surgical trainees
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section A: Principles of Surgical Care
1. Mechanisms of surgical disease and surgery in practice
Disease processes
2. Managing physiological change in the surgical patient
3. Immunity, inflammation and infection
4. Shock and resuscitation
Diagnostic techniques
5. Imaging and interventional techniques in radiology and surgery
6. Screening for adult disease
Section B: Perioperative Care
7. Preoperative assessment and postoperative management
8. Medical problems
9. Blood transfusion
10. Principles and techniques of operative surgery including principles of neurosurgery
11. Elective orthopaedics
12. Complications of surgery
13. Principles of cancer management
14. Principles of transplantation surgery
Section C: Principles of Accident Surgery
15. Major trauma
16. Head and maxillofacial injuries
17. Soft tissue injuries and burns
Section D: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Management
Abdomen, general principles
18. Nonacute abdominal pain and other abdominal symptoms and signs
19. The acute abdomen and acute 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; the spleen
25. Pancreatitis
Coloproctology
26. Appendicitis
27. Colorectal polyps and carcinoma
28. Chronic inflammatory disorders of the bowel
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
Urology
34. Symptoms, signs and investigation of urinary tract disorders
35. Disorders of the prostate
36. Disorders of the kidney, ureter and bladder
37. Stone disease of the urinary tract
38. Urinary tract infections
Cardiovascular disorders
39. Pathophysiology, clinical features and diagnosis of vascular disease affecting the limbs
40. Managing lower limb arterial insufficiency, the diabetic foot and major amputations
41. Aneurysms and other peripheral arterial disorders
42. Venous disorders of the lower limb
43. Cardiac surgery
Disorders of the breast and skin
44. Disorders of the breast
45. Disorders of the skin
Disorders of the head and neck
46. Lumps in the head and neck and salivary calculi
47. Disorders of the mouth
48. Disorders of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands
Neonatal and paediatric surgery
49. Acute surgical problems in children
50. Nonacute abdominal and urological problems in children
1. Mechanisms of surgical disease and surgery in practice
Disease processes
2. Managing physiological change in the surgical patient
3. Immunity, inflammation and infection
4. Shock and resuscitation
Diagnostic techniques
5. Imaging and interventional techniques in radiology and surgery
6. Screening for adult disease
Section B: Perioperative Care
7. Preoperative assessment and postoperative management
8. Medical problems
9. Blood transfusion
10. Principles and techniques of operative surgery including principles of neurosurgery
11. Elective orthopaedics
12. Complications of surgery
13. Principles of cancer management
14. Principles of transplantation surgery
Section C: Principles of Accident Surgery
15. Major trauma
16. Head and maxillofacial injuries
17. Soft tissue injuries and burns
Section D: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Management
Abdomen, general principles
18. Nonacute abdominal pain and other abdominal symptoms and signs
19. The acute abdomen and acute 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; the spleen
25. Pancreatitis
Coloproctology
26. Appendicitis
27. Colorectal polyps and carcinoma
28. Chronic inflammatory disorders of the bowel
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
Urology
34. Symptoms, signs and investigation of urinary tract disorders
35. Disorders of the prostate
36. Disorders of the kidney, ureter and bladder
37. Stone disease of the urinary tract
38. Urinary tract infections
Cardiovascular disorders
39. Pathophysiology, clinical features and diagnosis of vascular disease affecting the limbs
40. Managing lower limb arterial insufficiency, the diabetic foot and major amputations
41. Aneurysms and other peripheral arterial disorders
42. Venous disorders of the lower limb
43. Cardiac surgery
Disorders of the breast and skin
44. Disorders of the breast
45. Disorders of the skin
Disorders of the head and neck
46. Lumps in the head and neck and salivary calculi
47. Disorders of the mouth
48. Disorders of the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands
Neonatal and paediatric surgery
49. Acute surgical problems in children
50. Nonacute abdominal and urological problems in children
Review quotes
Review quotes
Review of the previous edition:
"This is a great resource for understanding the care of surgical patients. It is beneficial for all levels of education, from medical students learning surgery for the first time to clinicians reviewing surgery or looking for teaching points for their students." --Dakota T Thompson, MD (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics) Doody's Review Score: 96- 4 Stars!
"This is a great resource for understanding the care of surgical patients. It is beneficial for all levels of education, from medical students learning surgery for the first time to clinicians reviewing surgery or looking for teaching points for their students." --Dakota T Thompson, MD (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics) Doody's Review Score: 96- 4 Stars!
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 7
- Latest edition
- Published: September 4, 2025
- 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), UKSB
Suzanne Biers
Suzanne Biers is a Urology Consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Urology Consultant, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UKTA
Tan Arulampalam
Tan Arulampalam is Clinical Director, ICENI Centre for Surgical Training, Research and Education, Colchester, UK, Turner Road.
Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Director, ICENI Centre for Surgical Training, Research and Education, Colchester, UKPD
Philip J. Deakin
Philip J. Deakin is a General Medical Practitioner, Sheffield, UK
Affiliations and expertise
General Medical Practitioner, Sheffield, UK