Surgery

SURGERY provides essential core knowledge in an attractive, user-friendly format. Written and edited by a world-class team of surgeons, this one-volume work on general surgery covers all the essential areas of general surgery and its subspecialties. The allied surgical subspecialties are covered with the need of the general surgeon in mind. Each section or subsection has a series of Practical Problems -- brief clinical vignettes where experts give their opinions on difficult clinical problems. Colorful clinical and diagnostic photographs and conceptual and representation artwork are included throughout.

Section 1

1.01 Preoperative risk assessment and perioperative managementRobert F Wilson and James G Tyburski

1.02 The operating room environmentMark A Malangoni and Charles J Yowler

1.03 Metabolic response to operation and injuryPalmer Q Bessey

1.04 Fluid and electrolytesThomas Vargish and Robert J Baker

1.05 ShockDavid A Spain and R Neal Garrison

1.06 Hemostasis and transfusionDavid B Hoyt and Robert J Winchell

1.07 Infection, inflammation and antimicrobialsDonald E Fry

1.08 Nutrition supportKenneth A Kudsk and Kathleen M Teasley-Strausburg

1.09 Cardiac support of the surgical patientMatthew J Wall, Jr and John C Baldwin

1.10 Pulmonary supportPhilip S Barie and Mia Talmor

1.11 Renal supportRichard J Mullins

1.12 Wound healingAdrian Barbul and Scott R Schell

1.13 Minimal access surgeryJohn G Hunter and Thadeus L Trus

1.14 Unique geographic features of surgical practiceJohn L Tarpley and Donald E Meier

1.15 Anesthesiology and pain controlMalcolm D Orr and Gregory Pharo

1.16 Principles of radiologyAnna M Champlin and Fred A Mettler and Lisa M Sullivan

1.17 Principles of oncologyKirby I Bland and Maureen A Chung

1.18 Surgical management in the elderlyJames M Watters and Jonathan L Meakins

1.19 Surgical informaticsJohn R Clarke

1.20 Economic issues in surgeryCharles L Rice and Jonathan C Silverstein

1.21a Investigating a postoperative infection epidemicJames T Lee

1.21b Postoperative abdominal abscessDonald E Fry

1.21c Nutritional support of the burn patientGerald B Demarest

1.21d Postoperative myocardial infarctionCarol R Schermer

1.21e Pulmonary contusionRoxie M Albrecht

1.21f Acute renal failure in critical surgical illnessKenneth W Burchard

1.21g Wound care issues in the paraplegic patientA James Moser and Emily F Pollard and Ken Morgenstern

1.21h Sigmoid cancer in an eighty-two-year-old patientDavid H Berger

1.21i Difficult decisions in a forty-two-year-old patient with chronic diseaseDavid H Berger

1.21j Anesthetic considerations in the morbidly obese patientA James Moser and Jonathan Parmet

1.21k Gallstone patient: laparascopic versus open proceduresA James Moser and Ken Morgenstern

Section 2 Trauma

2.01 IntroductionHoward R Champion

2.02 War surgeryRonald F Bellamy

2.03 Initial evaluation and resuscitationBrad M Cushing and Paul J Schenarts and Lisa A Rutstein

2.04 Initial surgical careThomas M Scalea

2.05 Trauma in the elderly, in pregnancy and in childrenJohn A Morris Jr and Craig R Nunn and Daniel C Cullinane

2.06 Head, cervical spine and spinal cord injuryVincent Traynelis and Alex B Valadka

2.07 Neck traumaM Gage Ochsner and Michael W Blaney

2.08 Thoracic traumaRiyad Karmy-Jones

2.09 Abdominal and perineal injuryTimothy C Fabian and Andrew J Kerwin

2.10 Pelvis, lumbar and thoracic spine, and spinal cord injuriesAndrew N Pollak and Jeffrey A Goldstein

2.11 Principles of wound managementRobin M Coupland

2.12 Limb injuriesGavin W Bowyer

2.13 Thermal injuryDavid W Mozingo

2.14 Vascular traumaJohn D Corson

2.15a Missed aortic injury following an abdominal gunshot woundJohn D Corson

2.15b Gunshot wound to buttock with abdominal and rectal injury

2.15c Stab wound to the neck

2.15d In shock with blunt trauma

2.15e Hypoxia of unknown origin

2.15f Priorities in multiple trauma

2.15g Massive burn injury

2.15h Snake bite

Section 3 Gastrointestinal Surgery

3.01 Upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopyJeffrey L Conklin

3.02 Gastrointestinal hemorrhageJoseph WY Lau and Joseph JY Sung

3.03 Acute abdomenJames W Maher and Gordon L Kauffman Jr

3.04 Intestinal obstructionVictor W Fazio and M Jonathan Worsey

3.05 Benign diseases of the esophagusJames W Maher

3.06 Esophageal neoplasmsGlyn Jamieson

3.07 Peptic ulcer diseaseJoseph Cullen

3.08 Gastric neoplasms

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