Core Topics in General and Emergency Surgery

The series - "A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice" - is designed to provide trainee surgeons in higher surgical training with an excellent learning and revision resource and busy practicing surgeons with a regular update in a particular sub-specialty interest. Produced to a very tight schedule, each volume in the series gives a current and succinct summary of all the key topics within the specialty and concentrates on recent developments. To meet the increasing interest in evidence-based medicine, authors have cited whenever available, the meta analysis of randomised controlled trials and identified key references within the text which support evidence-based practice. Other titles in the series are: "Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery"; Phillips "Colorectal Surgery, 2nd Edition"; Phillips "Breast Surgery"; Farndon "Endocrine Surgery"; Fardon "Vascular and Endovascular Surgery"; Beard and Gaines "Transplantation Surgery: Current Dilemmas, 2nd Edition"; and, Forsythe "Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, 2nd Edition" - Griffin & Raimes.