Kirk's Basic Surgical Techniques
- 8th Edition - January 27, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Fiona Myint
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 4 4 2 - 7
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 3 6 7 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 1 4 4 3 - 4
Kirk's Basic Surgical Techniques provides a foundation on surgical technique to ensure operational success. Covering the basic techniques that every surgeon needs to know, across… Read more
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Request a sales quoteKirk's Basic Surgical Techniques provides a foundation on surgical technique to ensure operational success. Covering the basic techniques that every surgeon needs to know, across all specialties and subspecialties. Comprehenisvely reviewing the full range of surgical skills this book provides guidance on key operative skills, managing different situations, and handling the patient - all with clear ‘how-to’ explanations of each technique. This eighth edition has been thoroughly revised by Fiona Myint, a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital and Professor of Surgical Education at UCL. It maintains the clear, instructive style of its highly respected original author Professor R. M. Kirk.
- Provides guidance on the full range of surgical techniques and skills required by all trainee surgeons
- Concentrates on the main principles behind the use of surgical techniques
- Key points boxes provide hints and tips to reinforce the main aspects of each technique
- Cover image
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Raymond Maurice Work
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1 Handling yourself
- ATTITUDES – THE FIVE ‘Cs’
- PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES
- WHAT IS SKILL?
- EXERCISES VERSUS PRACTICE
- HAPTICS
- TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
- SKILLS COURSES
- THOUGHT PROCESSES
- RATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION
- COMMUNICATION
- BURNOUT
- PROCEDURAL PRACTICE
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- CHAPTER 2 Handling instruments
- SCALPEL
- OTHER ‘SCALPELS’
- SCISSORS
- DISSECTING FORCEPS (THUMB FORCEPS)
- ARTERY FORCEPS (HAEMOSTATIC FORCEPS, HAEMOSTATS)
- TISSUE FORCEPS
- NEEDLE-HOLDERS
- RETRACTORS
- CLAMPS
- HAEMOSTATIC CLIPS
- STAPLING DEVICES
- DISSECTION AIDS
- INTRAOPERATIVE DIAGNOSTIC ULTRASOUND
- MISCELLANEOUS METHODS
- CHAPTER 3 Handling threads
- THREAD CHARACTERISTICS
- KNOTS
- LIGATURES
- STITCHES
- CHOICE OF SUTURE MATERIAL
- CHAPTER 4 Handling ducts and cavities
- INTUBATION
- OROPHARYNGEAL AIRWAY
- NASOPHARYNGEAL AIRWAY
- DILATING DUCTS
- ENDOSCOPIC ACCESS
- DISPLAY
- OCCLUSION
- DISOBLITERATION
- REPAIR
- RESECTION
- ANASTOMOSIS
- BOWEL TRANSFER
- SPHINCTERS
- ACQUIRED CHANNELS AND CAVITIES
- REFERENCE
- CHAPTER 5 Handling blood vessels
- PERCUTANEOUS PUNCTURE
- PERCUTANEOUS CANNULATION
- PERCUTANEOUS CATHETERIZATION
- ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES
- SUTURES
- EXPOSURE AND CONTROL (see also Ch. 10)
- INCISION
- VEINS—DIRECT PROCEDURES
- ARTERIES—DIRECT PROCEDURES
- ARTERIAL ANASTOMOSIS
- MICROVASCULAR SURGERY
- REFERENCE
- FURTHER READING
- CHAPTER 6 Handling skin
- STRUCTURE
- HEALING
- WOUND MANAGEMENT
- ANALGESIA
- INCISION
- EXCISION
- CLOSURE
- GRAFTS
- FLAPS
- FREE TISSUE TRANSFER
- TISSUE EXPANSION
- AESTHETIC PROCEDURES
- FURTHER READING
- CHAPTER 7 Handling connective and soft tissues
- PERCUTANEOUS DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES
- CONNECTIVE TISSUE
- NERVES
- SKELETAL MUSCLE
- CARTILAGE
- MUCOPERIOSTEUM
- BREAST
- LYMPH NODES
- ABDOMINAL WALL
- ABDOMINAL CONTENTS
- UROLOGICAL SYSTEM
- GYNAECOLOGICAL SYSTEM
- CARDIORESPIRATORY SYSTEM
- ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
- BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD
- REFERENCE
- FURTHER READING
- CHAPTER 8 Handling bone and joints
- BONE
- EXPOSURE
- BIOPSY
- CUTTING OF BONE (OSTEOTOMY)
- DRILLING OF BONE
- FIXING
- AMPUTATION
- JOINTS
- CARTILAGE
- LIGAMENTS
- TENDONS
- CHAPTER 9 Handling dissection
- ORGANISE
- EXPOSE
- DISSECTION METHODS
- LAYERED OR SOLID TISSUES?
- TISSUE PLANES
- SOLID TISSUES
- DISEASED TISSUES
- NEOPLASMS
- AIDS TO DISSECTION
- REFERENCE
- CHAPTER 10 Handling bleeding
- HAEMORRHAGE
- PREVENTION
- ADJUNCTS
- CONTROL
- INTRACRANIAL BLEEDING
- FURTHER READING
- CHAPTER 11 Handling drains
- CAUTION
- TYPES
- SITES
- NEGATIVE PRESSURE DRAINS
- ABSCESSES AND CYSTS
- EXTERNAL FISTULAS
- CHAPTER 12 Handling infection
- PRINCIPLES
- INFECTIONS
- VIRAL TRANSMISSION
- SEPSIS
- UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS
- TRAUMA
- PREOPERATIVE
- BLEEDING
- OPERATING ROUTINES
- OPERATION
- SURGICAL SITE INFECTION
- TREATING INFECTIONS
- INFECTED PROSTHESES
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- CHAPTER 13 Handling minimal access surgery
- EXAMPLES
- LAPAROSCOPY
- PLACING A SECOND CANNULA (PORT)
- TECHNICAL ASPECTS
- CLOSURE
- ACQUIRING SKILLS
- OTHER PROCEDURES
- REFERENCES
- FURTHER READING
- CHAPTER 14 Handling the patient
- PREOPERATIVE FACTORS
- PLANNING THE ORDER OF AN OPERATING LIST
- PERIPROCEDURAL FACTORS
- IN THE OPERATING THEATRE
- POSTOPERATIVE CARE
- EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
- FURTHER READING
- CHAPTER 15 Handling craft skills
- PHYSICIAN/SURGEON
- SKILLS COURSES
- OPERATING PRECEPTS
- EMERGENCIES
- ERROR AVOIDANCE
- ASSISTING AT OPERATIONS
- MENTORING
- COMMON SENSE
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 16 Handling dressings
- WOUND CLEANSING
- TYPES OF DRESSING
- HYPERGRANULATION
- GELS AND CREAMS
- LARVAE
- STOMA BAGS
- DRESSINGS FOR DRAINS
- PRESSURE DRESSINGS
- NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY (NpWT)
- WHEN TO CHANGE DRESSINGS
- CHAPTER 17 Handling your team
- COMMUNICATION
- DISABILITY AND DIFFERENCE
- SUPERVISORY ROLES
- HUMAN FACTORS—BE AWARE AND CARE
- WHEN THINGS DON’T GO TO PLAN
- FURTHER READING
- Index
- Edition: 8
- Published: January 27, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443114427
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443113673
- eBook ISBN: 9780443114434
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Fiona Myint
Ms Fiona Myint qualified from Guy’s Hospital in 1987 and trained in Surgery in London. She was appointed jointly to The North Middlesex University Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital as a substantive Consultant Vascular & General Surgeon commencing December 2000. From May 2013, herservices were centralized with vascular reconfiguration to the Royal Free. Her practice covers the full range of general Vascular Surgery and in both elective and emergency settings. She has an established track record in the training of surgeons.
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant in Vascular and General Surgery and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University College London, Royal Free Hospital, UK