The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Surgical Patient Management. This item is unavailable.The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Surgical Patient Management

Written by experts from the world renowned Cleveland Clinic, this superb guide focuses specifically on surgical operations rather than surgical disease, providing readers with the specific information they need*fast. Uniform and consistent, this handy resource features the comprehensive and timely coverage needed to manage surgical patients effectively and efficiently.

For each procedure, you'll find...
* a brief overview of pathophysiology which outlines the diseases process and the data necessary to understand it
* descriptions of the most commonly seen presenting signs
* pre-operative work-up instructions, including radiologic and laboratory tests to confirm the diagnosis
* pre- and post-operative orders
* step-by-step descriptions of the operative technique
* lists of potential complications during in the post-operative period

Dr. Michael Rosen is the Professor of Surgery at the Lerner College of Medicine and the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Comprehensive Hernia Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Rosen also serves as the Medical Director of the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative, a nonprofit organization formerly known as Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative Foundation, which collects and aggregates health information, and publishes and provides data sets of health information related to abdominal core and hernia surgical repairs. Dr. Rosen’s practice focuses on abdominal surgery, abdominal wall reconstruction, adrenal surgery, appendectomy, biliary surgery, complex abdominal hernia repair, diagnostic laparoscopy, gastrectomy, gastrointestinal surgery, and hernia open repair surgery. Dr. Rosen has published extensively on these areas of surgery and this would be his third time editing the Atlas of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction.