Surgical tips and skills

Surgical Tips and Skills is a new practical and instructive guide to the development and refinement of surgical techniques written by leading plastic surgeon Felix Behan. Surgical Tips and Skills delivers step-by-step guidance for preoperative, intraoperative, postoperative and non-operative procedures. This book is designed for you to work through over 100 tutorials, graded as Basic, Intermediate and Advanced with the aim of developing your surgical style. Each tutorial is based on a real-life case and follows a clear structure as follows: . - Introduction . - Problem . - Solution . - Outcome Surgical Tips and Skills is underpinned by the principles of evidence-based medicine and enhanced by the author's considerable expertise. The patient and procedural photographs that accompany each tutorial demonstrate key steps and establish this text as essential reading for all aspiring or training surgeons.

Front cover; Half title page; Icosahedron; Surgical tips and skills; Copyright page; Foreword; Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Reviewers; Acronyms used throughout the text -- key words; Basic; Preoperative; Draping technique for hand surgery operating table; Introduction; Problem; Solution; Outcome; Bibliography; Exsanguination problems in hand surgery; Introduction; Problem; Solution; Outcome; Bibliography; Wound preparation -- pre-wash technique; Introduction; Problem; Solution; Outcome; Preoperative theatre preparation; Unpleasant aromas in theatre; Introduction.

ProblemSolution; Outcome; Intraoperative; Aesthetic closure -- ocular design with extended limbs (ODEL); Introduction; Problem; Solution; Outcome; Bibliography; Dog-ear revision in wound closure; Introduction; Problem; Solution; Bibliography; Fenestrated full thickness graft; Introduction; Problem; Solution; Outcome; Bibliography; Postoperative; Drain tube fixation without silk; Introduction; Problem; Solution; Outcome; Drain tube identification with site specificity; Introduction; Problem; Solution; Outcome; Hand splint -- ongoing use postoperatively when blood staining may have occurred.

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