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Principles and Practice of Surgery
- 8th Edition - March 28, 2022
- Editors: O. James Garden, Rowan W Parks, Stephen J. Wigmore
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 2 5 2 - 8
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 7 0 2 0 - 8 2 5 1 - 1
This comprehensive textbook is the surgical companion to the international bestseller, Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine. It provides an overview of core surgical… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis comprehensive textbook is the surgical companion to the international bestseller, Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine. It provides an overview of core surgical topics encountered in an integrated medical curriculum and, later, in the clinical setting.
The book takes a succinct and practical approach to the understanding of surgical disease and care of the surgical patient. It offers comprehensive coverage of the key surgical specialties and includes emerging issues around patient safety and the critical importance of clinical human factors in surgical practice.
Fully updated to reflect changes in understanding and evidence-based practice, this is a text that keeps the student up to date and that no trainee surgeon should be without.
- Easy to read, logical to follow
- Summary boxes and evidence boxes throughout to complement the text
- Superbly presented with line drawings, high quality radiographic images and colour photographs to help in exams and in the clinical setting.
- Aligned with undergraduate and postgraduate surgical curricula
- New chapters on professional and ethical responsibilities, global surgery, patient safety and clinical human factors
- Comprehensive information on global surgical practice
- Full online and eBook version available as part of Student Consult
- 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
- No. of pages: 580
- Language: English
- Edition: 8
- Published: March 28, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702082528
- Paperback ISBN: 9780702082511
OG
O. James Garden
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Clinical Surgery, Director, Edinburgh Surgery Online, University of Edinburgh, UKRP
Rowan W Parks
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgical Sciences, Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic SurgeonRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UKSW
Stephen J. Wigmore
Affiliations and expertise
Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK