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

1 Professional and ethical responsibilities2 Patient safety and clinical human factors3 Evidence-based surgery4 Management of shock, fluid management and blood transfusion5 Nutritional support in surgical patients6 Infections and antibiotics7 Preoperative considerations, anaesthesia and analgesia8 Principles of the surgical management of cancer9 Trauma and multiple injury10 Practical procedures and patient investigation11 Postoperative care and complications12 The abdominal wall and hernia13 The acute abdomen14 The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum15 The liver and biliary tract16 The pancreas and spleen17 The small and large intestine18 The anorectum19 Plastic surgery, including common skin and subcutaneous lesions20 Breast surgery21 Endocrine surgery22 Vascular and endovascular surgery23 Cardiothoracic surgery24 Urological surgery25 Neurosurgery26 Transplantation surgery27 Ear, nose and throat surgery28 Orthopaedic surgery29 Global surgery and anaesthesia Appendix