The Secrets Series® is breaking new ground again. The leading volume in the very popular Secrets Series® is back in an exciting, updated, and completely redesigned 5th Edition. A new, two-color page layout, a more portable size, and a list of the Top 100 Secrets in surgery help readers to better meet the challenges they face today. And, at no extra charge, purchasers also receive online access to the complete contents of the text via Elseviers innovative STUDENTConsult.com website. Readers will still find all of the features they rely on the Secret Series® for-a question- and -answer format, lists, mnemonics, and tables and an informal tone that make reference fast and easy. No matter what questions arise on rounds, in clinical situations, or in the OR, this updated 5th Edition has the answers-in print and online.
1. Are You Ready for Your Surgery Rotation? 2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation 3. Evaluation and Treatment of Cardiac Dysrhythmias 4. How to Think about Shock 5. What is Pulmonary Insufficiency? 6. Why Get Arterial Blood Gases? 7. Fluids, Electrolytes, Gatorade, and Sweat 8. Nutritional Assessment and Enteral Nutrition 9. Parenteral Nutrition 10. What Does Postoperative Fever Mean? 11. Oxygen Monitoring and Assessment 12. Central Venous and Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring 13. Surgical Wound Infection 14. Priorities in Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen 15. Surgical Infectious Disease
II. TRAUMA
16. Initial Assessment 17. Posttraumatic Hemorrhagic Shock 18. Traumatic Brain Injury 19. Spinal Cord Injuries 20. Penetrating Neck Trauma 21. Blunt Thoracic Trauma 22. Penetrating Thoracic Trauma 23. Blunt Abdominal Trauma 24. Penetrating Abdominal Trauma 25. Hepatic and Biliary Trauma 26. Splenic Trauma 27. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injury 28. Trauma to the Colon and Rectum 29. Pelvic Fractures 30. Upper Urinary Tract Injuries 31. Lower Urinary Tract Injury and Pelvic Trauma 32. Extremity Vascular Injuries 33. Facial Lacerations 34. Basic Care of Hand Injuries 35. Burns 36. Pediatric Trauma
III. ABDOMINAL SURGERY
37. Appendicitis Can Be Tough to Diagnose 38. Gallbladder Disease 39. Pancreatic Cancer 40. Acute Pancreatitis 41. Diagnosis and Therapy of Chronic Pancreatitis 42. Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices 43. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease 44. Esophageal Cancer 45. Acid-Peptic Ulcer Disease 46. Small Bowel Obstruction 47. Intestinal Ischemia 48. Diverticular Disease of the Colon 49. Acute Large Bowel Obstruction 50. Inflammatory Bowel Disease 51. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding 52. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding 53. Colorectal Polyps 54. Colorectal Carcinoma 55. Anorectal Disease 56. Inguinal Hernia
IV. ENDOCRINE SURGERY
57. Hyperparathyroidism 58. Hyperthyroidism 59. Thyroid Nodules and Cancer 60. Surgical Hypertension
V. BREAST SURGERY
61. Breast Masses 62. Primary Therapy for Breast Cancer
VI. OTHER CANCERS
63. What Is Cancer? 64. Melanoma 65. Parotid Tumors 66. Hodgkins Disease and Malignant Lymphomas 67. Neck Masses