General Surgery
Published on 6. December 2012
XIV, 142 pages
978-1-4684-0454-8 (ISBN)
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The material in this text is compiled to help students in the study for board examinations. It is not intended as a textbook, nor is it felt to be a complete reference book. It is my hope that it will be used to jog one's memory of material previously learned and to point out important concepts that should be grasped. The author has made every effort to include the learning objectives as outlined by the Committee on Curriculum of the Association for Surgical Education in this text. The book is laid out with much the same table of contents as most textbooks in general surgery. It is organized primarily in an organ system fashion but every effort has been made to address common clinical problems and differential diag noses. It has been written in an outline form and the author would encourage students to highlight important areas, write in the margins, and expand on the concepts or key phrases listed in the book.
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Fluid, Electrolytes, and Nutrition.- Basic principles.- The normal fluids and electrolytes and their maintenance.- Abnormalities.- Nutrition.- Shock.- Hypovolemic shock.- Cardiogenic shock.- Septic shock.- Neurogenic shock.- Clotting Disorders and Use of Blood Products.- Clotting disorders.- Blood replacement therapy.- Surgical Infections.- Classification of surgical wounds.- Pathogenesis of infection.- Prevention of surgical infection.- Community acquired infections.- Hospital acquired infection.- Multiple Trauma.- Primary survey-ABCDE.- Secondary survey.- Burns.- Types and classification of burn injuries.- Treatment.- Wound Healing.- Pathophysiology.- Classification of wounds.- Use of prophylactic antibiotics.- Wound care.- Acute Abdominal Pain.- General aspects.- Acute appendicitis.- Pelvic inflammatory disease.- Ectopic pregnancy.- Biliary disease.- Acute pancreatitis.- Perforated duodenal ulcer.- Acute diverticulitis.- Small bowel obstruction (SBO).- Genitourinary problems.- Esophagus.- Anatomic points of interest.- Physiology.- Pathology.- Stomach.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Diagnostic tools.- Peptic ulcer disease.- Gastric ulcer disease.- Post-gastrectomy syndromes.- Gastric cancer.- Small Bowel.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Crohn's Disease.- Small bowel obstruction.- Small bowel cancers.- Inflammation.- Neoplasias.- Colon.- Neoplastic diseases.- Inflammatory diseases.- Large bowel obstruction.- Lower GI hemorrhage.- Rectum and Anus.- Rectum and anus.- Anus.- Gallbladder and Biliary System.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Congential problems.- Calculus associated illnesses.- Cancer.- Liver.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Congenital abnormalities.- Inflammatory problems.- Portal hypertension.- Neoplasias.- Pancreas.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Inflammatory conditions.- Neoplasia.-Spleen.- Anatomy.- Function.- Splenic removal.- Other.- Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage.- Upper GI bleeding.- Lower GI bleeding.- GI hemorrhage in infants and children.- Hernias.- Groin hernias.- Other hernias.- Breast.- Anatomy/Physiology.- Evaluation.- Benign conditions.- Malignant conditions.- Vascular System.- Atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease.- Venous Disease.- Lymphatic disorders.- Heart.- Congenital disease.- Acquired cardiac disease.- Pacemakers.- Lung and Mediastinum.- Pulmonary functions.- Lung cancer.- Primary tumors and cysts of the mediastinum.- Transplantation.- General aspects.- Organ and tissue donation.- Kidney transplantation.- Liver transplant.- Heart, heart-lung and lung transplantation.- Pancreas transplant.- Other.- Endocrine.- Thyroid.- Parathyroid.- Adrenal Gland.
