Kirk's General Surgical Operations

✍ Scribed by Richard Novell, Daryll Baker, Nicholas Goddard

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 681
• Edition: 6th
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

General Surgical Operations is a highly-praised and comprehensive textbook of operative surgery. It is a practical manual aimed at the surgeon who is about to carry out an operation, rather than just a description of the principles suitable for an examiner.

Kirk’s General Surgical Operations continues to be aimed at a broad readership: the candidate preparing for the Intercollegiate FRCS in General Surgery or international equivalents; the trained surgeon faced, through necessity, with undertaking an infrequently performed procedure; and the many surgeons working in hospitals throughout the world without access to specialist services. It remains above all a practical text which will guide the surgeon in training, or one unfamiliar with a procedure, on how to perform it, but more importantly on how to manage the uncertainties which so often arise

This is a ‘What to do’ book. Using it the reader can aspire to gain diagnostic, decision making and operative surgical competence with confidence.

✦ Table of Contents

Choose well, cut well, get well --
Anaesthesia-related techniques --
The severely injured patient --
Laparotomy: elective and emergency --
Principles of minimal access surgery --
Abdominal wall and hernias --
Appendix and abdominal abscess --
Oesophagus --
Oesophageal cancer --
Stomach and duodenum --
Small bowel and operations for obesity --
Colonoscopy --
Colon --
Anorectum --
Biliary tract --
Pancreas --
Liver and portal venous system --
Spleen --
Breast --
Thyroid --
Parathyroid --
Adrenalectomy --
Arteries --
Veins and lymphatics --
Sympathectomy and the management of hyperhidrosis --
Transplantation --
Thorax --
Head and neck --
Orthopaedics and trauma: amputations --
Orthopaedics and trauma: general principles --
Orthopaedics and trauma: upper limb --
Orthopaedics and trauma: lower limb --
Plastic surgery --
Paediatric surgery --
Neurosurgery --
Upper urinary tract --
Lower urinary tract --
Male genitalia --
Gynaecological surgery --
Ear, nose and throat --
Oral and maxillofacial surgery --
Ophthalmology.