The series - A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice - is designed to provide trainee surgeons in higher surgical training with an excellent learning and revision resource and busy practicing surgeons with a regular update in a particular sub-specialty interest.
Produced to a very tight schedule, each volume in the series gives a current and succinct summary of all the key topics within the specialty and concentrates on recent developments.
To meet the increasing interest in evidence-based medicine, authors have cited when ever available, the meta analysis of randomised controlled trials and identified key references within the text which support evidence-based practice.
Other titles in the series are::- Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Phillips Colorectal Surgery 2nd Edition Phillips Breast Surgery Farndon Endocrine Surgery Fardon Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Beard and Gaines Transplantation Surgery:: Current Dilemmas 2nd Edition Forsythe Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery 2nd Edition Griffin & Raimes
Evidence-based practice in surgery. Outcomes and health economic issues in surgery. Day case surgery. Abdominal hernias. Early assessment and investigation in the acute abdomen. Perforations of the upper gastrointestinal tract. Acute non-variceal gastrointestinal bleeding. Pancreaticobiliary emergencies. Acute conditions of the small bowel and appendix. Colonic emergencies. Anorectal emergencies. Paediatric surgical emergencies. Abdominal trauma. Prophylaxis and treatment of deep venous thrombosis. Patient assessment and risk stratification. Perioperative management of the surgical patient. Surgical nutrition. Sepsis and intensive care management.