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Principles and Practice of Surgery

  • 8th Edition - February 26, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: O. James Garden, Rowan W. Parks, Stephen J. Wigmore
  • Language: English

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 t… Read more

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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 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.

Key features

  • 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

Table of contents

SECTION 1 Professional capabilities in surgical practice

1. Professional and ethical responsibilities

2. Patient safety and clinical human factors

3. Evidence-based surgery

SECTION 2 Principles of perioperative care

4. Management of shock, fluid management and blood transfusion

5. Nutritional support in surgical patients

6. Infections and antibiotics

7. Preoperative considerations, anaesthesia and analgesia

8. Principles of the surgical management of cancer

9. Trauma and multiple injury

10. Practical procedures and patient investigation

11. Postoperative care and complications

SECTION 3 Gastrointestinal surgery

12. The abdominal wall and hernia

13. The acute abdomen

14. The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum

15. The liver and biliary tract

16. The pancreas and spleen

17. The small and large intestine

18. The anorectum

SECTION 4 Surgical specialties

19. Plastic surgery, including common skin and subcutaneous lesions

20. Breast surgery

21. Endocrine surgery

22. Vascular and endovascular surgery

23. Cardiothoracic surgery

24. Urological surgery

25. Neurosurgery

26. Transplantation surgery

27. Ear, nose and throat surgery

28. Orthopaedic surgery

29. Global surgery and anaesthesia

Product details

  • Edition: 8
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 11, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

OG

O. James Garden

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

RP

Rowan W. Parks

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgical Sciences, Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Honorary Consultant Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic SurgeonRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK

SW

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