Foundations of Operative Surgery: An Introduction to Surgical Techniques - Softcover

Tulloh, Bruce; Lee, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199228663 ISBN 13: 9780199228669

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Technical expertise in the operating theatre remains a hallmark of surgical practice. Theatre etiquette and instrument handling skills are highly specific to the specialty of surgery, and trainees need to quickly become familiar with them.

This book introduces operative technique in an original way. It first discusses the roles and responsibilities of the surgical trainee and explains some the unwritten rules of behaviour in the operating theatre. It then brings a unique approach to teaching operative surgery by describing operations as a series of generic manoeuvres which, when mastered and put together in the correct order, will allow any procedure to be performed - and prove useful across subspecialty boundaries.

This approach is illustrated using clear diagrams and full color photographs. It is further enhanced through a free DVD comprising 55 high quality video clips taken from live operating sessions which illustrate the various techniques described inside.

About this title

About the Author

Mr Bruce Tulloh completed general surgical training at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, in 1989, then pursued a further three years' post-Fellowship training in both Melbourne and the UK. He was then appointed as one of two general surgeons in Echuca, a town of 12,000 people in northern Victoria, Australia, where he worked for ten years across the full breadth of rural general surgery and promoted the teaching of operative surgery to junior trainees on rotation from Melbourne teaching hospitals. He moved to Scotland in 2002 and remains there following appointment to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, where he works in the Upper Gastro-intestinal Surgery Unit with major interests in complex laparoscopic surgery and surgical training. After completing basic and higher surgical training in Edinburgh, Mr David Lee was appointed Senior Lecturer in Durban, South Africa in 1980. He was appointed Consultant General Surgeon with an interest in Endocrinology, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh in 1982, and retired from clinical practice in 2006. He was elected to the Council of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1988 and took charge of the Examinations Committee for a
four year period.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199228663
• ISBN 13: 9780199228669
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168