Greenfield's Surgery : Scientific Principles and Practice

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2021!

Revised, updated, and enhanced from cover to cover, the Sixth Edition of Greenfield’s Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice remains the gold standard text in the field of surgery. It reflects surgery’s rapid changes, new technologies, and innovative techniques, integrating new scientific knowledge with evolving changes in surgical care. Updates to this edition include new editors and contributors, and a greatly enhanced visual presentation. Balancing scientific advances with clinical practice, Greenfield’s Surgery is an invaluable resource for today’s residents and practicing surgeons.
Key Features:

• Features enhanced, full-color illustrations, clinical photographs, key teaching points, and decision-making algorithms for quick reference to key information.
• Covers general scientific principles such as inflammation, shock, nutrition, pain management, and much more, followed by surgical practice chapters arranged by organ system.
• Introduces two new editors, Hasan Alam, MD and Timothy Pawlik, MD, who bring a fresh perspective and vision to this classic reference.
• Showcases the scientific and clinical expertise of more than 200 contributing authors, each an active practitioner in the field of surgery.
• Includes two new chapters on Obesity and Preoperative Risk Assessment.
• eBook version features over 40 "Morbidity and Mortality" case discussions and an Interactive Quesiton Bank with nearly 900 questions

Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:

• Complete content with enhanced navigation
• Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
• Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation
• Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
• Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues

'the editors have worked to broaden perspective and create a text which can be utilized in a variety of modalities — continuing in hardcover as well electronic '
'a systematic layout that specifically meets a variety of readers’ approaches and learning styles'
'meets almost the entire SCORE curriculum outline'
'figures and drawings are all of very high quality and the logical color-coding throughout the book enhances the usability'
'eBook also has a few additional features including morbidity and mortality case discussions and almost 900 questions arranged in assessments by category'
'a broad-based , classic textbook that hits all the highpoints but also delves into physiology, with appropriate deference to anatomy and surgical approaches'Kyla P. Terhune, MD, MBA, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, Annals of Surgery - Volume 266, Number 1, July 2017