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Core Topics in General and Emergency Surgery

A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice

  • 7th Edition - July 11, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Simon Paterson-Brown, Hugh M. Paterson, O. James Garden, Chris Deans
  • Language: English

Core Topics in General & Emergency Surgery provides a short, up-to-date and practical reference guide for surgical trainees and established consultants needing a refresher… Read more

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Description

Core Topics in General & Emergency Surgery provides a short, up-to-date and practical reference guide for surgical trainees and established consultants needing a refresher.

The seventh edition has been edited and fully revised by respected experts in their fields, and provides a full list of current references and relevant resources. It covers a range of topics relevant to all areas of surgical practice – beyond surgical knowledge – that are essential for enhanced patient outcomes. These include quality improvement in emergency surgery, evaluation of new technology, evaluation of surgical literature, and human factors.

This volume is part of the Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series, the pre-eminent reference for trainees in general surgery and those preparing for the FRCS examinations. Each volume summarises key issues within each surgical sub-specialty and provides evidence-based recommendations to support practice.

Key features

  • Covers relevant topics not found in other surgical textbooks – essential to improve surgical outcomes
  • Concise and easy to follow – ideal for exam revision or as a refresher aid
  • Fully updated with latest evidence on recent developments, management issues and operative procedures
  • International authorship offers a world view
  • Evidence-based recommendations to support practice
  • Key references to support content, plus a comprehensive list of references in the accompanying eBook
  • Links to recommended online videos for further learning

Readership

Higher surgical trainees preparing for the FRCS examinations. Surgical residents preparing for the board exams in specific specialties. Students wishing to progress from Specialty Training (ST)1 through to ST3 need to pass their MRCS exams. Once these have been completed and their place in a surgical post secured they then go on to working on the necessary skills to pass the FRCS exam. This exam marks the completion of 6 years of higher surgical training. This series is designed primarily for those studying for the FRCS, but those still working on their MRCS exams will also find these useful.

Table of contents

1. Evaluation of surgical literature

2. Peri-operative care and enhanced recovery

3. Quality improvement in emergency surgery

4. Patient assessment and surgical risk

5. Perioperative intensive care management of the surgical patient

6. Surgical nutrition

7. Abdominal hernias

8. Neck surgery for the general surgeon

9. Human factors and patient safety in surgery

10. Principles of organ donation and transplantation

11. The acute abdomen: early assessment and investigation

12. Perforations of the upper gastrointestinal tract

13. Acute non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding

14. Pancreaticobiliary emergencies

15. Acute conditions of the small bowel and appendix

16. Colonic emergencies

17. Anorectal emergencies

18. Paediatric surgical emergencies

19. Management of trauma for the general surgeon

20. Abdominal sepsis and abdominal compartment syndrome

21. Operating on the obese patient and complications of bariatric surgery

22. Introduction of new technologies into Surgical practice

Product details

  • Edition: 7
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 6, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

SP

Simon Paterson-Brown

Affiliations and expertise
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Surgery, The University of Edinburgh; Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

HP

Hugh M. Paterson

Affiliations and expertise
Clinical Senior Lecturer Coloproctology, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon,Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

OG

O. James Garden

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Clinical Surgery, Director, Edinburgh Surgery Online, University of Edinburgh, UK

CD

Chris Deans

Affiliations and expertise
Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and Part-time Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland