Fundamental Topics in Plastic Surgery

Section I Principles
1 Patient Safety in Plastic Surgery
2 Wound Healing
3 Wound Management and Pressure Sores
4 Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
5 Local Anesthetics and Common Nerve Blocks
6 Soft Tissue Infections and Antibiotics in Plastic Surgery
7 Implants and Biomaterials
8 Principles of Osteosynthesis
9 Essentials of Dermatology for Plastic Surgeons
10 Laser Therapy: Principles and Applications in Skin Diseases
11 How to Set Up a Research Protocol in Plastic Surgery
Section II Techniques
12 Basic Surgical Techniques, Sutures, and Wound Closure
13 Grafts: Skin, Fascia, Nerve, Tendon, Cartilage, and Bone
14 Fat Grafting
15 Vascular Anatomy of the Skin and Muscles
16 Flaps
17 Tissue Expansion
18 Burns
19 Microsurgery
20 Facial Trauma
21 Hand Trauma