This book is for all those entering general surgical training.
It explains the reasoning involved in recognizing and dealing with general surgical conditions and pays special attention to managing surgical emergencies and trauma patients.
It is also intended to serve as a practical guide to safe and effective day-to-day surgical practice.
The content is laid out logically so that a patient can be followed from a working diagnosis, through investigation and assessment, preparation for surgery, care in the operating theatre and afterwards, including the prevention and treatment of complications.
Throughout, factors are identified which affect surgical outcome and which are important in surgical audit and quality control.
It is not meant as a textbook of diagnosis, or an atlas of operative surgery; however, it does cover the principles of both, as well as details of the common operations trainees are likely to have to perform.
Each chapter concludes with a few key references to classic papers, books and review articles.
Philip Deakin, a medical artist and GP, has illustrated the book throughout.
Clive Quick and Paul Thomas are recent past members of the Court of Examiners for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and have planned the book to meet the requirements of the new syllabus for the higher general surgical qualification.
Their team of contributing authors is made up of senior trainees and recently appointed consultants who provide a clear and focused perspective, reflecting their recent experience of the training process.
Quick, Majeed and Rooney: Introduction Consent in surgical practice Medical negligence Classification of surgical procedures Coding of diseases and operative procedures Screening for surgical disease Greig and Quick: Setting the standards of surgical practice Greig and Quick: Maintaining and improving the standards of surgical practice Smith: Principles of anaesthesia and intraoperative monitoring Bailey and Quick: Minimising perioperative risk Siklos and Corlett: Managing comorbid medical conditions in surgical patients Farrington: Surgical infection Gardiner: Nutrition and nutritional support in surgical practice Baglin: Surgical aspects of haematology Doyle and Munglani: Management of acute pain Pappachan, Jonas, Oduro and Smith: Critical care of the surgical patient Cross, McCue, Quick and Earley: Soft tissue surgery and wound management Ackroyd and Quick: Recovery from surgery Majeed and Carmody: Minimal access surgery Friend and Ahmad: Organ transplantation Hargest: Principles of management of malignant disease Anderson: Trauma Whyman and Thomas: Abdominal surgical emergencies Thomas and Hughes: Elective upper gastrointestinal surgery Saunders, Abercrombie and Everett: Colorectal surgery Lunniss: Perianal surgery Sarin: Venous and lymphatic disorders Quick and Davies: Arterial surgery and lower limb amputations Banerjee and Quick: Thyroid, parathyroid and salivary glands Saunders: Breast surgery Da Costa and Redmond: External hernias
Reviews for Principles of Surgical Management
This new book presents an impressive amount of information for surgical residents and surgeons . . . the drawings in black and green are very good and ideal for teaching purposes. This book belongs on the shelf of every teaching hospital. * G Kootstra, University Hospital Maastricht in the British Journal of Surgery 2002, 89, 371-373 *
