Recent Advances in Surgery Vol 41

Section 1: Principles of General Surgery
1. Sustainability in Surgery
2. Optimisation Prior to Surgery
3. Recent Advances in Understanding the Role of Human Factors in Patient Safety and Surgical Team Performance

Section 2: Emergency Surgery
4. Improving Outcomes in Emergency Surgery
5. Management and Prevention of Burst Abdomen

Section 3: Breast Surgery
6. Neoadjuvant Endocrine Therapy and Agents for Early Breast Cancer
7. Percutaneous Treatment for Breast Cancer

Section 4: Hepatobiliary Surgery
8. Contemporary Management of Incidentally Detected Gallstones
9. Recent Advances in Management of Acute Cholecystitis

Section 5: Intestinal Surgery
10. Management of Rectal Injuries
11. Recent Advances in Intestinal Transplantation

Section 6: Vascular Surgery
12. Modern Management of Aortic Dissection
13. The Role of Tranexamic Acid in Reducing Surgical Bleeding

Index

Michael Douek MB ChB MD FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Gen) EBSQ (Breast)
Rosetrees and Royal College of Surgeons of England Director of Surgical Interventional Trials Unit, and Professor of Surgical Sciences and Breast Cancer, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, UK

Rachel Hargest BSc MBBS FRCS MD FRCS (Gen)
Co-Director, Global Surgery Policy Unit, Royal College of Surgeons of England & London School of Economics and Political Science; Co-Lead, World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Health Policy and Impact in Emergency, Critical and Operative (ECO) Care; Clinical Senior Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery, Cardiff China Medical Research Collaborative and Honorary Consultant Surgeon, University Hospital of Wales and Velindre Hospital, Cardiff, UK