Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE PRINCIPLES -- 1.Metabolic response to injury / Kenneth Fearon -- 2.Shock and blood transfusion / Karim Brohi -- 3.Wounds, tissue repair and scars / Michael Earley -- 4.Basic surgical skills and anastomoses / William E.G. Thomas -- 5.Surgical infection / Peter Lamont -- 6.Surgery in the tropics / Sanjay De Bakshi -- 7.Principles of laparoscopic and robotic surgery / Sanjay Purkayastha -- 8.Principles of paediatric surgery / Anthony Lander -- 9.Principles of oncology / Alastair J Munro -- 10.Surgical audit and clinical research / Birgit Whitman -- 11.Surgical ethics and law / Robert Wheeler -- 12.Patient safety / Frank Keane -- pt. TWO INVESTIGATION AND DIAGNOSIS -- 13.Diagnostic imaging / Niall Power -- 14.Gastrointestinal endoscopy / James Lindsay -- 15.Tissue diagnosis / Roger Feakins -- pt. THREE PERIOPERATIVE CARE -- 16.Preoperative preparation / Kevin Tremper -- 17.Anaesthesia and pain relief / Jagannath Haldar --

Contents note continued: 18.Care in the operating room / Hilary Edgcombe -- 19.Perioperative management of the high-risk surgical patient / Kevin D Johnston -- 20.Nutrition and fluid therapy / John MacFie -- 21.Postoperative care / Jay Kini -- 22.Day case surgery / Ian Jackson -- pt. FOUR TRAUMA -- 23.Introduction to trauma / Peter Giannoudis -- 24.Early assessment and management of trauma / Joseph Windley -- 25.Emergency neurosurgery / Harry Bulstrode -- 26.Neck and spine / Ashley Poynton -- 27.Maxillofacial trauma / Charles Perkins -- 28.Torso trauma / Ken Boffard -- 29.Extremity trauma / Parminder Singh -- 30.Burns / Sudip Ghosh -- 31.Plastic and reconstructive surgery / Tim Goodacre -- 32.Disaster surgery / Mamoon Rashid -- pt. FIVE ELECTIVE ORTHOPAEDICS -- 33.History taking and clinical examination in musculoskeletal disease / Hemant G Pandit -- 34.Sports medicine and sports injuries / Gina Allen -- 35.The spine / Gavin Bowden --

Contents note continued: 36.Upper limb - pathology, assessment and management / Irfan Khan -- 37.Hip and knee / Andrew Barnett -- 38.Foot and ankle / Bob Sharpe -- 39.Musculoskeletal tumours / Paul Cool -- 40.Infection of the bones and joints / Philip Bejon -- 41.Paediatric orthopaedics / Deborah Eastwood -- pt. SIX SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE -- 42.Skin and subcutaneous tissue / Adam Greenbaum -- pt. SEVEN HEAD AND NECK -- 43.Elective neurosurgery / Harry Bulstrode -- 44.The eye and orbit / Jonathan Jagger -- 45.Cleft lip and palate: developmental abnormalities of the face, mouth and jaws / William P Smith -- 46.The nose and sinuses / Iain J Nixon -- 47.The ear / Grant Bates -- 48.Pharynx, larynx and neck / Martin Birchall -- 49.Oropharyngeal cancer / William P Smith -- 50.Disorders of the salivary glands / William P Smith -- pt. EIGHT BREAST AND ENDOCRINE -- 51.The thyroid and parathyroid glands / Zygmunt H Krukowski --

Contents note continued: 52.The adrenal glands and other abdominal endocrine disorders / Tom WJ Lennard -- 53.The breast / Richard Sainsbury -- pt. NINE CARDIOTHORACIC -- 54.Cardiac surgery / Mustafa Zakkar -- 55.The thorax / Carol Tan -- pt. TEN VASCULAR -- 56.Arterial disorders / Robert Sayers -- 57.Venous disorders / Ian Chetter -- 58.Lymphatic disorders / David A Russell -- pt. ELEVEN ABDOMINAL -- 59.History and examination of the abdomen / V Sitaram -- 60.Abdominal wall, hernia and umbilicus / Bruce Tulloh -- 61.The peritoneum, omentum, mesentery and retroperitoneal space / Charles H Knowles -- 62.The oesophagus / Derek Alderson -- 63.Stomach and duodenum / Timothy J Underwood -- 64.Bariatric surgery / John Baxter -- 65.The liver / Brian R Davidson -- 66.The spleen / O James Garden -- 67.The gall bladder and bile ducts / Kevin Conlon -- 68.The pancreas / Satyajit Bhattacharya -- 69.The small and large intestines / Jonathan Epstein -- 70.Intestinal obstruction / Jim Hill --

Contents note continued: 71.The vermiform appendix / P Ronan O'Connell -- 72.The rectum / Sue Clark -- 73.The anus and anal canal / Karen Nugent -- pt. TWELVE GENITOURINARY -- 74.Urinary symptoms and investigations / Christopher G Fowler -- 75.The kidneys and ureters / Christopher G Fowler -- 76.The urinary bladder / Freddie Hamdy -- 77.The prostate and seminal vesicles / Greg L Shaw -- 78.Urethra and penis / Ian Eardley -- 79.Testis and scrotum / Ian Eardley -- 80.Gynaecology / Enda McVeigh -- pt. THIRTEEN TRANSPLANTATION -- 81.Transplantation / J Andrew Bradley.