Principles and Practice of Surgery (8^th Ed.)

This comprehensive textbook is the surgical companion to the international bestseller, Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine. It provides an overview of core surgical topics encountered in an integrated medical curriculum and, later, in the clinical setting.

The book takes a succinct and practical approach to the understanding of surgical disease and care of the surgical patient. It offers comprehensive coverage of the key surgical specialties and includes emerging issues around patient safety and the critical importance of clinical human factors in surgical practice.

Fully updated to reflect changes in understanding and evidence-based practice, this is a text that keeps the student up to date and that no trainee surgeon should be without.

• Easy to read, logical to follow
• Summary boxes and evidence boxes throughout to complement the text
• Superbly presented with line drawings, high quality radiographic images and colour photographs to help in exams and in the clinical setting.
• Aligned with undergraduate and postgraduate surgical curricula
• New chapters on professional and ethical responsibilities, global surgery, patient safety and clinical human factors
• Comprehensive information on global surgical practice
• Full online and eBook version available as part of Student Consult

SECTION 1 PRINCIPLES OF PERIOPERATIVE CARE

1. Metabolic response to injury, fluid and electrolyte balance and shock
2. Transfusion of blood components and plasma products
3. Nutritional support in surgical patients
4. Infections and antibiotics
5. Ethics, pre-operative considerations, anaesthesia and analgesia
6. Principles of the surgical management of cancer
7. Trauma and multiple injury
8. Practical procedures and patient investigation
9. Post-operative care and complications
10. Evidence-based practice and professional development

SECTION 2 GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY

11. The abdominal wall and hernia
12. The acute abdomen and intestinal obstruction
13. The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
14. The liver and biliary tract
15. The pancreas and spleen
16. The small and large intestine
17. The anorectum

SECTION 3 SURGICAL SPECIALTIES

18. Plastic and reconstructive surgery
19. The breast
20. Endocrine surgery
21. Vascular and endovascular surgery
22. Cardiothoracic surgery
23. Urological surgery
24. Neurosurgery
25. Transplantation surgery
26. Ear, nose and throat surgery
27. Orthopaedic surgery