General Surgery

by M. Alex Jacocks

Overview

Updated, revised and organized, the new Second Editions in the Clinical Sciences Series reflect the format of the USMLE Step 2. Each volume systematically presents the core information of a single segment of the medical curriculum, from Family Medicine to Psychiatry. You will also learn time-honored tricks of the trade,as well as the latest advances in clinical medicine: new diagnostic tools, new therapeutic interventions, and new pharmacologic options.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387946375
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	05/02/1996
Series:	Oklahoma Notes
Edition description:	2nd ed. 1996
Pages:	189
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Fluids, Electrolytes, Nutrition.- Basic principles.- The normal fluids and electrolytes and their maintenance.- Abnormalities.- Nutrition.- 2 Shock.- Hypovolemic shock.- Cardiogenic shock.- Septic shock.- Neurogenic shock.- 3 Clotting Disorders and Use of Blood Products.- Clotting disorders.- Blood replacement therapy.- 4 Surgical Infections.- Classification of surgical wounds.- Pathogenesis of infection.- Prevention of surgical infection.- Community acquired infections.- Hospital acquired infection.- 5 Multiple Trauma.- Primary survey—ABCDE.- Secondary survey.- 6 Burns.- Types and classification of burn injuries.- Treatment.- 7 Wound Healing.- Pathophysiology.- Classification of wounds.- Use of prophylactic antibiotics.- Wound care.- 8 Acute Abdominal Pain.- General aspects.- Acute appendicitis.- Pelvic inflammatory disease.- Ectopic pregnancy.- Biliary disease.- Acute pancreatitis.- Perforated duodenal ulcer.- Acute diverticulitis.- Small bowel obstruction (SBO).- Genitourinary problems.- 9 Esophagus.- Anatomic points of interest.- Physiology.- Pathology.- 10 Stomach.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Diagnostic tools.- Peptic ulcer disease.- Gastric ulcer disease.- Post-gastrectomy syndromes.- Gastric cancer.- 11 Small Bowel.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Crohn’s Disease.- Small bowel obstruction.- Diverticular disease.- Small bowel neoplasms.- 12 Appendix.- Inflammation.- Neoplasias.- Chaper 13 Colon.- Neoplastic diseases.- Diverticular disease.- Inflammatory bowel disease.- Large bowel obstruction.- Lower GI hemorrhage.- 14 Rectum and Anus.- Rectum and anus.- Anus.- 15 Gallbladder and Biliary System.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Congential problems.- Calculus associated illnesses.- Cancer.- 16 Liver.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Congenital abnormalities.- Inflammatory problems.-Portal hypertension.- Neoplasias.- 17 Pancreas.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Inflammatory conditions.- Neoplasia.- 18 Spleen.- Anatomy.- Function.- Splenic removal.- Other.- 19 Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage.- Upper GI bleeding.- Lower GI bleeding.- GI hemorrhage in infants and children.- 20 Hernias.- Groin hernias.- Other hernias.- 21 Breast.- Anatomy/Physiology.- Evaluation.- Benign conditions.- Malignant conditions.- 22 Vascular System.- Atherosclerotic peripheral arterial disease.- Venous Disease.- Lymphatic disorders.- 23 Heart.- Congenital disease.- Acquired cardiac disease.- Pacemakers.- 24 Lung and Mediastinum.- Pulmonary functions.- Lung cancer.- Primary tumors and cysts of the mediastinum.- Pleura and pleural space.- 25 Transplantation.- General aspects.- Organ and tissue donation.- Kidney transplantation.- Liver transplant.- Heart, heart-lung and lung transplantation.- Pancreas transplant.- Other.- 26 Endocrine.- Thyroid.- Parathyroid.- Adrenal Gland.- Self-Assessment Examination.- Answers.