Principles of Surgery
Everything you need to know but were frightened to ask!
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2008
224 pages
978-1-908986-26-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a succinct set of notes in a question and answer format covering the fundamental principles of surgery. It is aimed at anyone who works in a surgical specialty, not only surgeons, but also nurses, operating department assistants, assistants in surgical practice, trainee surgeons, junior doctors, dentists, podiatrists and medical students of all surgically-oriented disciplines. Many facts and principles are important to those who work in a surgical field, but there is no single unifying book that has covered all the basic, essential material that EVERYONE should know, regardless of their discipline. Equally, many of the existing surgical principle books are written purely for surgeons and, of course, eighty percent of their content is relevant only to surgeons and medical students, and not the wider audience. There is a lot of redundancy, not to mention expense, in reading these books. This book is essential reading in order to have a firm grasp of the fundamental principles of surgery before specialising into one of today's surgical disciplines.
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Content
- COVER FRONT
- Contents
- Foreword
- Section 1 Aspects of pre-operative care
- Chapter 1 Pre-operative investigations
- 1. Pre-admission clinic
- 2. Pre-operative haematology
- 3. Pre-operative biochemistry
- 4. Principles of pre-operative radiology
- 5. Pre-operative X-rays
- 6. Problems with pre-operative radiology
- 7. Other pre-operative investigations
- Chapter 2 Management of concomitant medical conditions
- 1. General management of associated medical conditions
- 2. Elderly patients
- 3. Respiratory diseases
- 4. Smoking
- 5. Cardiac disease
- 6. Hypertension
- 7. Obesity
- 8. Diabetes
- 9. Pregnancy
- 10. Liver disease
- 11. Thyroid disease
- 12. Rheumatoid disease
- 13. Renal disease
- 14. Immunosuppressed patients
- 15. Pre-operative management of patients taking steroids
- 16. Pre-operative management of patients taking anticoagulants
- 17. Pre-operative management of other medications
- Chapter 3 Preparation for theatre
- 1. Assessment of fitness for surgery
- 2. Optimisation of pre-operative nutritional status
- 3. Surgical marking
- 4. Principles of surgical prophylaxis
- 5. Thromboprophylaxis
- 6. Antibiotic prophylaxis
- 7. Pre-medication
- 8. Blood transfusion
- 9. Consent
- 10. Pre-operative fasting
- 11. Preparing the operating list
- Chapter 4 Pathways and protocols
- 1. Integrated care pathways (ICP)
- 2. Patient identification
- 3. Clinical governance
- 4. Evidence-based medicine
- 5. Multi-disciplinary meetings (MDM)
- 6. Infection control practices - infections
- 7. Infection control practices - universal precautions
- 8. Infection control practices - needlestick injuries
- 9. Emergency surgery - principles
- 10. Emergency surgery - airway
- 11. Emergency surgery - breathing
- 12. Emergency surgery - circulation
- 13. Screening
- 14. Surgical oncology
- 15. Epidemiology
- Section 2 The operating theatre environment
- Chapter 5 Theatre design and function
- 1. Operating theatres
- 2. Scrubbing up
- 3. Gloves
- 4. Masks, goggles and magnification
- 5. Skin preparation and surgical drapes
- 6. Instrument sterilisation
- 7. Sterilisation and disinfection
- 8. Aseptic technique
- 9. The anaesthetic machine
- 10. Operating table
- 11. Patient positioning
- Chapter 6 Anaesthesia
- 1. Types of anaesthetic
- 2. General anaesthesia
- 3. Anaesthetic monitoring
- 4. Pulse oximetry
- 5. Spinal and epidural anaesthesia
- 6. Local anaesthesia
- 7. Bier's block
- 8. Transfer of the anaesthetised patient
- 9. Care of the anaesthetised patient
- Chapter 7 Principles of surgery
- 1. Peripheral lines
- 2. Central lines
- 3. Arterial lines
- 4. Catheters
- 5. Drains
- 6. Sutures
- 7. Needles and blades
- 8. Diathermy
- 9. Retractors
- 10. Forceps
- 11. Suction and theatre waste
- 12. Tourniquets
- 13. Lasers
- Chapter 8 Basic surgical techniques
- 1. Surgical wounds
- 2. Surgical stitches
- 3. Abdominal incisions
- 4. Abdominal wall closure
- 5. Thoracotomy
- 6. Anastomosis
- 7. Biopsy
- 8. Abscess
- 9. Minimal access surgery
- 10. Day-case surgery
- Section 3 Postoperative care and complications
- Chapter 9 Recovery and immediate postoperative care
- 1. Recovery
- 2. Management of immediate postoperative respiratory distress
- 3. Management of immediate postoperative hypotension
- 4. Other recovery room problems
- 5. High dependency unit (HDU)
- 6. Intensive care (ICU or ITU)
- 7. Postoperative ventilation
- Chapter 10 Postoperative ward care
- 1. Ward rounds
- 2. Principles of postoperative analgesia
- 3. Methods of postoperative analgesia
- 4. Mechanisms of postoperative analgesia
- 5. Fluid and electrolyte balance
- 6. Management of postoperative oliguria
- 7. Wound healing (pathology)
- 8. Factors affecting wound healing
- 9. Postoperative nutrition
- 10. Stomas
- 11. Tracheostomy
- 12. Chest drains
- Chapter 11 Postoperative complications
- 1. Classification of postoperative complications
- 2. Postoperative pyrexia
- 3. Postoperative wound infection
- 4. Wound dehiscence
- 5. Postoperative deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- 6. Pulmonary embolism (PE)
- 7. Postoperative myocardial infarction (MI)
- 8. Postoperative stroke
- 9. Postoperative chest infection
- 10. Atelectasis and respiratory failure
- 11. Postoperative pneumothorax
- 12. Postoperative bleeding - primary haemorrhage
- 13. Reactive haemorrhage, secondary haemorrhage and occult bleeding
- 14. Shock
- 15. Urinary retention
- 16. Postoperative jaundice
- 17. Compartment syndrome
- Chapter 12 Late complications, discharge and follow-up
- 1. Postoperative confusion
- 2. Psychological effects of surgery
- 3. Pressure sores
- 4. Rehabilitation
- 5. Physiotherapy
- 6. Palliative care
- 7. Discharge
- 8. Surgery and the law
- Index
- COVER BACK
