Essentials of General Surgery / Edition 5

by Peter F. Lawrence MD, Richard M. Bell MD, Merril T. Dayton MD, James C. Hebert MD FACS

Overview

For nearly 25 years, medical students and faculty alike have chosen E ssentials of General Surgery and its companion textbook, Essentials of Surgical Specialties, for authoritative coverage of surgical information that every physician in training should know. The Fifth Edition incorporates current research from the field; new sample questions, answers, and rationales; and new tables and algorithms. A new art program presents concepts and images—including an Appendix with 50 burn images—in full color for optimal learning and retention.

Why is this textbook so popular?
- With its overview of anatomy, physiology, and coverage of pertinent complications for each case, the text prepares students for the NBME shelf exam for surgery, as well as residency training.
- The authors—all of whom are practicing surgeons—carefully manage the depth and breadth of content so that each section can be reasonably read and thoroughly understood by third- and fourth-year students.
- Organized by systems, the text features a closing section on surgical procedures to orient students to some of the most common cases seen on a general surgery rotation.
With your purchase of the text, you’ll receive access to:
Interactive question bank with answer explanations
· Fully searchable eBook
· Bonus chapters on ethics and surgical procedures
· Image Bank

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780781784955
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	10/05/2012
Edition description:	Fifth
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.80(h) x 3.50(d)

About the Author

Lawrence, Peter F., MD (UC Irvine)

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: HOW TO SURVIVE (AND EXCEL!) IN A SURGERY CLERKSHIP 1
Debra A. DaRosa, PhD
Kimberly D. Anderson, PhD
Gary L. Dunnington, MD

CHAPTER 2: PERIOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF SURGICAL PATIENTS 11
Virginia A. Eddy, MD
Richard M. Bell, MD

CHAPTER 3: FLUIDS, ELECTROLYTES, AND ACID-BASE BALANCE 43
Susan Kaiser, MD
Claudia Corwin, MD
Hilary Sanfey, MD
David Antonenko, MD

CHAPTER 4: NUTRITION 67
Anthony P. Borzotta, MD

CHAPTER 5: SURGICAL BLEEDING AND BLOOD REPLACEMENT 91
Hollis W. Merrick, III, MD
Mary R. Smith, MD
Bruce V. MacFadyen, Jr., MD

CHAPTER 6: SHOCK 103
Kenneth W. Burchard, MD

CHAPTER 7: SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE 121
William Miles, MD
Gamal Mostafa, MD

CHAPTER 8: WOUNDS AND WOUND HEALING 147
Glenn E. Talboy, Jr., MD
Ian Gordon, MD, PhD

CHAPTER 9: SURGICAL INFECTIONS 163
Richard N. Garrison, MD
Donald E. Fry, MD
David A. Spain, MD

CHAPTER 10: TRAUMA 181
Matthew O. Dolich, MD
Jeffrey G. Chipman, MD

CHAPTER 11: BURNS 209
Jeffrey R. Saffle, MD
Tina L. Palmieri, MD

CHAPTER 12: ABDOMINAL WALL, INCLUDING HERNIA 225
Leigh Neumayer, MD, MS
D. Byron McGregor, MD
Barry Mann, MD

CHAPTER 13: ESOPHAGUS 239
Hiram C. Polk, Jr., MD
Mary C. Mancini, MD, PhD
James A. McCoy, MD

CHAPTER 14: STOMACH AND DUODENUM 255
John Paige, MD
J. Patrick O'Leary, MD

CHAPTER 15: SMALL INTESTINE AND APPENDIX 283
John D. Mellinger, MD
Bruce V. MacFadyen, Jr., MD
David W. Mercer, MD
John R. Potts, III, MD

CHAPTER 16: COLON, RECTUM, AND ANUS 305
Merril T. Dayton, MD
Judith L. Trudel, MD

CHAPTER 17: BILIARY TRACT 335
Rudy G. Danzinger, MD
Russell Nauta, MD
Jason Park, MD

CHAPTER 18: PANCREAS 353
Kenneth W. Sharp, MD
Steven B. Goldin, MD, PhD
Kimberly D. Lomis, MD

CHAPTER 19: LIVER 367
William C. Chapman, MD
John R. Potts, III, MD

CHAPTER 20: BREAST 385
Gary L. Dunnington, MD
Susan Kaiser, MD, PhD
Elizabeth Peralta, MD
Lecia Apantaku, MD

CHAPTER 21: SURGICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY 399
Thyroid Gland: Nicholas P.W. Coe, MD
Parathyroid Glands: Karen R. Borman, MD, and Nicholas P.W. Coe, MD
Adrenal Glands: Roshni Rao, MD, and Richard B. Wait, MD, PhD
Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndromes: Karen R. Borman, MD

CHAPTER 22: SPLEEN 427
James C. Hebert, MD
Kennith H. Sartorelli, MD

CHAPTER 23: DISEASES OF THE VASCULAR SYSTEM 441
James F. McKinsey, MD
Peter F. Lawrence, MD
Bruce L. Gewertz, MD

CHAPTER 24: TRANSPLANTATION 471
Oscar H. Grandas, MD
Hilary Sanfey, MD
Mitchell H. Goldman, MD

CHAPTER 25: SURGICAL ONCOLOGY: MALIGNANT DISEASES OF THE SKIN, THE LYMPHATICS, AND SOFT TISSUE 491
Nicholas P. Lang, MD
Michael Stone, MD
Chris de Gara, MD
James Warneke, MD

CHAPTER 26: SURGICAL PROCEDURES, TECHNIQUES, AND SKILLS 519
Richard M. Bell, MD

Glossary 563

Index 577

Editorial Reviews

This is a soft cover, easily portable, relatively inexpensive textbook on the field of general surgery. The book is organized around traditional surgical topics. A number of multiple choice self-examination questions and an abbreviated atlas of general surgery procedures are also included. The text has been quite popular with medical students and is currently in the third edition. This textbook was created because of the explicit recognition that medical student instruction in surgery has become truncated over the past decade. Students spend six to eight weeks in surgical clerkships in their junior year in most American medical schools, a time period much shorter than in prior decades. The editor postulates that an in depth understanding of general surgery procedures is not possible in this time period, and has sought to create a text that provides essential information for medical students not planning a surgical career. In addition, the text is designed to serve as a study guide in preparation for multiple choice examinations usually accompanying the end of the surgical clerkship. An abbreviated surgical atlas, found at the end of the text, can help to prepare the students, after two or three minutes of reading, for common surgical procedures that they will be witnessing. The atlas also provides information useful for all beginning physicians, including the proper way to conduct a sterile scrub, to don a surgical gown, and to prepare and drape a sterile field. This book is explicitly directed at medical students who are not anticipating a surgical career. Because the book is quite brief in the treatment of most important surgical diseases and therefore superficial, it is notappropriate for medical students planning surgical careers or for surgical housestaff or practicing surgeons. The level of sophistication in the text is not sufficient for these latter groups. This book is organized in a traditional manner, with beginning chapters dealing with broad surgical topics followed by organ-specific topics. Two novel and very useful chapters for medical students include ""How to survive and excel in a surgical clerkship"" and ""Ethical issues in surgical practice."" The accompanying multiple choice examination questions provide useful reinforcement for the material presented in the chapters. The mini-atlas of surgical procedures, techniques, and skills which conclude the text can provide a beginning medical student with a simplified understanding of surgical procedures and orient students in a relatively efficient manner for procedures they are about to witness. Most chapters contain tabular representation of important information and most also contain appropriate treatment algorithms. The reproduction quality of radiographs is moderate, due to the quality of the paper stock, and useful information is obscured in perhaps one of four. The coverage of general surgical topics is very simplified, without room for subtlety or nuance. This superficiality is a problem to surgical educators intent upon recruiting talented medical students to careers in surgery. Nonetheless, the first and second editions of this text have been enormously popular with medical students not intending to enter surgical fields. For every medical student toting around one of the larger hardbound surgical tomes there are ten with this softbound volume stashed in a backpack. With the majority of the medical students not pursuing surgical careers (currently about 85% of medical school classes), this third edition book is a useful reference.

Michael W. Mulholland

Positioning itself as a learning tool for medical students who are not necessarily planning a surgical career, this volume covers the material deemed most important to general surgery by the Association for Surgical Education. The text's 26 contributed chapters cover regions of the body, techniques, and important issues in general surgery. Includes various forms of test questions with correct answers provided. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Reviewer: Bruce E Jarrell, MD (University of Maryland School of Medicine)
Description: This is the fourth edition of a well known textbook designed for students during their third year of medical student rotation.
Purpose: The original purpose of this book was to provide a consistent description of important surgical principles and concepts that all medical students should know.
Audience: Third year medical students on a surgery clerkship are the intended readers.
Features: Each of the 26 chapters begins with a set of objectives that have been identified by the authors. The chapter then has a description of the disease and surgical treatment. Appropriate photographs, radiographs, and tables are included in the chapter followed by a summary about this disease and suggested readings with attached references.
Assessment: This book clearly accomplishes its goal of being a comprehensive text for medical students while in their third year clerkship. It is written by surgeons who teach and practice surgical care on a daily basis. It covers fundamental information that can be used by students throughout their careers. The length of each chapter has been controlled so that a student would be able to read the entire text while on the clerkship and it is written to appeal to all students regardless of their interest in surgery as a career. The book is engaging in its style and presentation. The fourth edition clearly perpetuates the tradition of a student-oriented publication and will continue to be one of the standards used by medical schools in teaching students the art of surgery.

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