General Principles of Surgery
Handbooks in General Surgery
Published on 8. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 198 pages
978-1-84996-380-0 (ISBN)
Description
General Principles of Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy.
The chapters provide pertinent and concise summaries of the fundamental principles in surgery, spanning anesthesia, fluids, nutrition, bleeding, blood transfusion, circulatory monitoring and pain management. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict these surgical principles.
A concise, handbook-sized reference work, this book is a valuable resource for all general surgeons and residents in training.
More details
Edition
2011 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
9 s/w Abbildungen
X, 198 p. 9 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
177 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84996-380-0 (9781849963800)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-84996-381-7
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
This book is edited by a team of experts from across the globe.
Kirby I. Bland, MD, is based at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, in the USA, where he is the Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, and the Deputy Director at the Comprehensive Cancer.
Michael G. Sarr, MD is the James C. Marson Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN in the USA.
Markus W. Buchler, MD, is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
Attila Csendes, MD FACS(Hon) is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University Hospital in Santiago, Chile.
O. James Garden, MBChB MD FRCS(Ed) FRCP(Ed) FRACS(Hon), is the Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the UK.
John Wong, BSc(Med(Syd)) MBBS(Syd) PhD(Syd) MD(Hon(Syd)) FRACS FRCS(Edin) FRCS(Glasg) FACS(Hon) is the Chair Professor for the Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong and Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, China.
Content
Anesthesia and Risk Management.- Fluids and Electrolytes.- Nutritional Support in the Surgical Patient.- Abnormal Bleeding and Coagulopathies.- Blood Transfusion and Alternative Therapies.- Circulatory Monitoring.- Acute Pain Management.