Sabiston Textbook of Surgery E-Book
The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice
21st Edition
Published on 8. January 2021
2176 pages
978-0-323-64064-0 (ISBN)
Description
For more than 80 years, Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice has been the go-to text for trainees and surgeons at all levels of experience for definitive guidance on every aspect of general surgery. As the oldest continuously published textbook of surgery in North America, this fully revised 21st Edition continues to provide the key information, essential teaching pearls, and completely updated content needed to make the most informed surgical decisions and achieve optimal outcomes for patients. Concisely written and evidence based throughout, it covers the breadth of material required for certification and practice of general surgery, highlighted by detailed, full-color intraoperative illustrations and high-quality video clips.
- Follows a clear, consistent progression beginning with principles common to surgical specialties including fluid and electrolyte management, metabolic support, and wound healing. Subsequent sections review the management of injury, transplantation, oncology, breast, endocrine, and abdominal procedures.
- Covers key topics such as emerging surgical technologies and devices, regenerative medicine, the latest concepts in cancer biology and treatments, and evidence-based management and treatment.
- Emphasizes the most up-to-date minimally invasive techniques and the use of robotics when indicated.
- Features more than 2,000 superb illustrations and intraoperative photographs and 25 procedural videos that facilitate quick comprehension of surgical techniques.
- Includes more schematic diagrams, summary tables, boxes, and algorithms that provide a rich resource for reviewing surgical techniques and preparing for in-training and board exams.
- Shares the expertise of dozens of new authors and includes two new chapters on robotic surgery and fetal surgery.
- Contains fully updated content on topics encountered by general surgery residents in training as well as in-depth coverage of subspecialty areas including head and neck, thoracic, vascular, urology, neurosurgery, pediatrics, and gynecology.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
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Content
Section 1
1. The Rise of Modern Surgery: An Overview
2. Ethics and Professionalism in Surgery
3. The Inflammatory Response
4. Shock, Electrolytes and Fluid
5. Metabolism in Surgical Patients
6. Wound Healing
7. Regenerative Medicine
8. Critical Assessment of Surgical Outcomes and Health Services
9. Safety in the Surgical Environment
Section 2
10. Principles of Preoperative and Operative Surgery
11. Surgical Infections and Antibiotic Use
12. Surgical Complications
13. Surgery in the Geriatric Patient
14. Anesthesiology Principles, Pain Management, and Conscious Sedation
15. Emerging Technology in Surgery: Informatics, Electronics
16. Robotic Surgery
Section 3
17. Management of Acute Trauma
18. The Difficult Abdominal Wall
19. Emergency Care of Musculoskeletal Injuries
20. Burns
21. Bites and Stings
22. Surgical Critical Care
23. Bedside Surgical Procedures
24. The Surgeon's Role in Mass Casualty Incidents
Section 4
25. Transplantation Immunobiology and Immunosuppression
26. Liver Transplantation
27. Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
28. Small Bowel Transplantation
Section 5
29. Tumor Biology and Tumor Markers
30. Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy
31. Melanoma and Cutaneous Malignancies
32. Soft Tissue Sarcomas
33. Bone Tumors
Section 6
34. Head and Neck
Section 7
35. Diseases of the Breast
36. Breast Reconstruction
Section 8
37. Thyroid
38. The Parathyroid Glands
39. Endocrine Pancreas
40. The Adrenal Glands
41. The Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes
Section 9
42. Esophagus
43. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Hiatal Hernia
Section 10
44. Abdominal Wall, Umbilicus, Peritoneum, Mesenteries, Omentum and Retroperitoneum
45. Hernias
46. Acute Abdomen
47. Acute Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
48. Morbid Obesity
49. Stomach
50. Small Intestine
51. The Appendix
52. Colon and Rectum
53. Anus
54. The Liver
55. Biliary System
56. Exocrine Pancreas
57. The Spleen
Section 11
58. Lung, Chest Wall, Pleura and Mediastinum
59. Congenital Heart Disease
60. Acquired Heart Disease: Coronary Insufficiency
61. Acquired Heart Disease: Valvular
Section 12
62. The Aorta
63. Peripheral Arterial Disease
64. Vascular Trauma
65. Venous Disease
66. The Lymphatics
Section 13
67. Pediatric Surgery
68. Neurosurgery
69. Plastic Surgery
70. Hand Surgery
71. Gynecologic Surgery
72. Surgery in the Pregnant Patient
73. Fetal Surgery
74. Urologic Surgery
