Contents:

1 Preoperative care

2 Perioperative care

3 Postoperative care

4 Cardiovascular monitoring

5 Shock blood transfusion and coagulation

6 Management of acute kidney injury in surgical patients

7 Respiratory failure and acidbase balance

8 Wound healing and the metabolic response to surgery

18 Laparoscopic surgery

19 Management of surgery in obese patients

20 Management of surgery in elderly patients

21 Day surgery

22 Antimicrobial prophylaxis meticillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficileassociated infection

23 Viral hepatitis and HIV infection in surgical practice

24 Medical therapy for surgical patients

25 Principles of surgical oncology

9 Systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis

10 Management of intestinal fistulae and enteral and parenteral nutrition

11 Management of surgical jaundice

12 Upper gastrointestinal bleeding

13 Lower gastrointestinal bleeding

14 Management of severely injured patients

15 Management of abdominal trauma

16 Management of acute abdomen

17 Chronic critical limb ischaemia and the diabetic foot

26 Sutures surgical incisions and surgical anastomoses

27 Principles of anaesthesia

28 Surgical considerations in hydatid disease

29 Surgical considerations in schistosomiasis and filariasis

30 Surgical considerations in tuberculosis

31 Surgical considerations in typhoid

Index

Clinical Surgery: A Practical Guide is a handbook for all trainees in surgery, providing an invaluable and expert guide to all aspects of clinical surgery that the trainee will encounter during their day to day work. General chapters on clinical examination, pre-operative, peri-operative and post-operative care are accompanied by expert guidance on Common terms and phrases: abdominal acute abdomen airway albendazole anaesthesia anaesthetic antibiotics anticoagulant arterial assessment associated biliary bleeding blood loss cancer cardiac cause cells cent cholecystectomy chronic clinical coagulation colonic common complications computed tomography cyst decreased diabetic diagnosis diathermy dose drug duct elderly patients endoscopic epidural ERCP failure Figure fistula fluid gastric gastrointestinal haemorrhage healthcare workers heparin hepatitis hydatid disease hypotension hypovolaemia hypovolaemic shock include the following increased infection injury intravenous ischaemia jaundice KEY POINT laparoscopic laparoscopic surgery laparotomy lesions liver lung metabolic mmHg mmol/L monitoring mortality MRSA nodes normal obesity obstruction occur operation oxygen pain pancreatic peritoneal platelet postoperative preoperative present procedure prophylaxis protein pulmonary rectal reduce renal resection respiratory result resuscitation scanning schistosomiasis sepsis skin small bowel stoma surgeon surgery surgical sutures symptoms syndrome Table therapy thrombosis tion tissue transfusion trauma treatment tumour ulcer ultrasound urinary usually variceal vascular venous warfarin wound