Clinical Surgery, 4th Edition

Clinical Surgery provides a complete overview of all surgical specialties, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates through to surgical trainees preparing for the FRCS.

This comprehensive textbook is designed around the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Programme (ISCP) framework, and provides information needed for passing MCQs, OSCEs and Vivas in the one book. Information is divided into three clear sections: basic science and surgical strategy; common surgical conditions and trauma; and leadership, evidence-based practice and global surgery.

This fourth edition has been fully updated and restructured by a new editorial team. Older concepts have been replaced by a new focus on systems biology, omics sciences and multidisciplinary sciences, and the book presents a modern, inclusive view of the surgeon as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering high quality care.

• • Entirely revised to follow the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum (ISC)

• • New focus on prevention of surgical disease

• • Introduction of sections on surgical safety and quality improvement

• New sections on the elderly surgical patients, the dying patient and surgical technology

1 Inflammation, wound healing and surgical immunology
2 Pharmacology in surgical practice
3 Disorders of growth, differentiation and morphogenesis
4 Principles of surgical oncology
5 Surgical infection
6 Health promotion and disease prevention
7 The principles of assessment and management of the surgical patient
8 Perioperative management and postoperative complications
9 Principles of paediatric surgery
10 The elderly surgical patient
11 The dying surgical patient
12 Organ transplantation
13 Emergency general surgery
14 Practical procedures
15 Diagnostics
16 Interventional radiology
17 Surgical technology and innovation
18 Common surgical conditions of head and neck
19 Common surgical conditions of pulmonary disease
20 Common gastrointestinal surgical conditions and their management
21 Common colorectal sugrical conditions
22 Common anal conditions
23 Surgical pathology of the liver, pancreas & biliary tract
24 Small-bowel disease and intestinal obstruction
25 Common endocrine surgical conditions
26 Common breast (surgical) conditions
27 Common vascular (surgical) conditions
28 Common urological (surgical) conditions
29 Common neurosurgical conditions
30 Hernia
31 Principles of plastic surgery
32 Skin disorders
33 Sarcoma
34 Bariatric and metabolic surgery
35 Trauma and orthopaedic surgery
36 Trauma surgery/principles of trauma care
37 Leadership and the surgical team and management
38 Evidence based medicine
39 Surgical safety and quality improvement
40 Surgical ethics
41 Global surgery