Core Topics in General and Emergency Surgery: A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice

The series - A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice - is designed to provide trainee surgeons in higher surgical training with an excellent learning and revision resource and busy practicing surgeons with a regular update in a particular sub-specialty interest.

Produced to a very tight schedule, each volume in the series gives a current and succinct summary of all the key topics within the specialty and concentrates on recent developments.

To meet the increasing interest in evidence-based medicine, authors have cited when ever available, the meta analysis of randomised controlled trials and identified key references within the text which support evidence-based practice.

Other titles in the series are:-
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
Phillips
Colorectal Surgery 2nd Edition
Phillips
Breast Surgery
Farndon
Endocrine Surgery
Fardon
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Beard and Gaines
Transplantation Surgery: Current Dilemmas 2nd Edition
Forsythe
Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery 2nd Edition
Griffin & Raimes

Succinct resource for keeping abreast of new developments in the major surgical sub-specialties

Rigorously edited and cross referenced between volumes to reduce repetition/overlap to the absolute minimum

Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials included where available

Key references highlighted in text with a 'scalpel code' which reflects the level of evidence for the interventional procedure under discussion.

Heavily revised throughout, and now split clearly into three sections: general, specific treatment of common surgical emergencies, and preoperative and critical care

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