Essential Surgery

Section A Principles of Surgical Care
1. Mechanisms of Surgical Disease and Surgery in Practice Disease Processes
2. Managing Physiological Change in the Surgical Patient
3. Immunity, Inflammation and Infection
4. Shock and Resuscitation Diagnostic Techniques
5. Imaging and Interventional Techniques in Radiology and Surgery
6. Screening for Adult Disease

Section B Perioperative Care
7. Preoperative Assessment and Management of Postoperative Problems
8. Medical Problems
9. Blood Transfusion
10. Principles and Techniques of Operative Surgery Including Neurosurgery
11. Elective Orthopaedics
12. Complications of Surgery
13. Principles of Cancer Management
14. Principles of Transplantation Surgery

Section C Principles of Trauma Surgery
15. Major Trauma
16. Head and Maxillofacial Injuries
17. Soft Tissue Injuries and Burns

Section D Symptoms, Diagnosis and Management; Abdomen, General Principles
18. Nonacute Abdominal Pain and Other Abdominal Symptoms and Signs
19. The Acute Abdomen and Acute Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage

Upper Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary
20. Gallstone Diseases and Related Disorders
21. Peptic Ulceration and Related Disorders
22. Disorders of the Oesophagus
23. Tumours of the Stomach and Small Intestine
24. Tumours of the Pancreas and Hepatobiliary System; the Spleen
25. Pancreatitis

Coloproctology
26. Appendicitis
27. Colorectal Polyps and Carcinoma
28. Chronic Inflammatory Disorders of the Bowel
29. Disorders of Large Bowel Motility, Structure and Perfusion
30. Anal and Perianal Disorders

Thoracic Surgery Excluding Cardiac
31. Thoracic Surgery Groin and Male Genitalia
32. Hernias and Other Groin Problems
33. Disorders of the Male Genitalia

Urology
34. Symptoms, Signs and Investigation of Urinary Tract Disorders
35. Disorders of the Prostate
36. Tumours of the Kidney and Urinary Tract
37. Stone Disease of the Urinary Tract
38. Urinary Tract Infections
39. Congenital Disorders and Diseases Secondarily Involving the Urinary Tract

Cardiovascular Disorders
40. Pathophysiology, Clinical Features and Diagnosis of Vascular Disease Affecting the Limbs
41. Managing Lower Limb Arterial Insufficiency, the Diabetic Foot and Major Amputations
42. Aneurysms and Other Peripheral Arterial Disorders
43. Venous Disorders of the Lower Limb
44. Cardiac Surgery

Disorders of the Breast and Skin
45. Disorders of the Breast
46. Disorders of the Skin

Disorders of the Head and Neck
47. Lumps in the Head and Neck and Salivary Calculi
48. Disorders of the Mouth
49. Disorders of the Thyroid, Parathyroid and Adrenal Glands

Neonatal and Paediatric Surgery
50. Acute Surgical Problems in Children
51. Nonacute Abdominal and Urological Problems in Children