Essential surgery: problems, diagnosis and management

"Essential Surgery is a comprehensive and highly illustrated textbook suitable for both clinical medical students as well junior surgical trainees, preparing for postgraduate qualifications in surgery such as the MRCS. Covering general surgery, trauma, orthopaedics, vascular surgery, paediatric surgery, cardiothoracic surgery and urology, it incorporates appropriate levels of basic science throughout. The book is ideal for modern clinical courses as well as being a practical manual for readers at more advanced levels. Its main aim is to stimulate the reader to a greater enjoyment and understanding of the practice of surgery". -- Publisher.

Previous edition: published as by George H. Burkitt. 2007.

Includes index.

Section 1. 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 surgery -- 6. Screening for adult disease -- Section 2. Perioperative care -- 7. Preoperative assessment -- 8. Medical problems -- 9. Blood transfusion -- 10. Principles and techniques of operative surgery including neurosurgery and orthopaedics -- 11. Diagnosis and management of common postoperative problems -- 12. Complications of surgery -- 13. Principles of cancer management -- 14. Principles of transplantation surgery -- Section 3. Principles of accident surgery -- 15. Major trauma -- 16. Head and maxillofacial injuries -- 17. Soft tissue injuries and burns -- Section 4. Symptoms, diagnosis and management -- Abdomen, general principles

Note continued: 18. Non-acute abdominal pain and other abdominal symptoms and signs -- 19. The acute abdomen and acute gastrointestinal haemorrhage -- Upper gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary -- 20. Gallstone diseases and r…