Clinical surgery : a practical guide

1 Preoperative care 1 Mark Lansdown 2 Perioperative care 13 Andrew Mavor, Qassim F Baker 3 Postoperative care 20 CG Nanda Kumar, Ahmed Al-Mukhtar, Munther I Aldoori 4 Cardiovascular monitoring 39 CG Nanda Kumar 5 Shock, blood transfusion and coagulation 53 Sheila M Fraser, Amer Aldouri, Giles Toogood 6 Management of acute kidney injury in surgical patients 75 Andrew JP Lewington, Chas G Newstead 7 Respiratory failure and acid–base balance 87 Julie O’Riordan, Laura Harvey 8 Wound healing and the metabolic response to surgery 100 Timothy R Wilson, Qassim F Baker, Abdulhalim Al Zein 9 Systemic inflammatory response syndrome and sepsis 118 Ramanathan Kandasamy, Ahmed Al-Bahrani, Munther I Aldoori 10 Management of intestinal fistulae and enteral and parenteral nutrition 125 William Ainslie, Kishore Sasapu, Munther I Aldoori 11 Management of surgical jaundice 138 Amer Aldouri, Hassan Malik, Peter Lodge 12 Upper gastrointestinal bleeding 150 Basil J Ammori, Saleh Baghdadi 13 Lower gastrointestinal bleeding 166 Nigel A Scott 14 Management of severely injured patients 176 Andrew Lockey, Amjid Mohammed 15 Management of abdominal trauma 192 JEF Fitzgerald, Mike Larvin 16 Management of acute abdomen 205 Assad Aghahoseini, David J Alexander 17 Chronic critical limb ischaemia and the diabetic foot 230 Timothy R Wilson, Munther I Aldoori18 Laparoscopic surgery 251 Peter Sedman 19 Management of surgery in obese patients 264 Amer Aldouri, S Dexter 20 Management of surgery in elderly patients 280 Qassim F Baker, H Devalia, Tharwat Sulliaman 21 Day surgery 289 Karl Mainprize 22 Antimicrobial prophylaxis, meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile-associated infection 295 Kevin G Kerr 23 Viral hepatitis and HIV infection in surgical practice 304 Walid Al-Wali 24 Medical therapy for surgical patients 319 Samir Abdulla, Suhail Doi 25 Principles of surgical oncology 335 Qassim F Baker, Steve Allen, Deirdre Pallister 26 Sutures, surgical incisions and surgical anastomoses 352 E Philip Perry, Naif El-Barghouti 27 Principles of anaesthesia 363 Ramanathan Kandasamy 28 Surgical considerations in hydatid disease 376 Vikram J Anand, Qassim F Baker, Samie Safar 29 Surgical considerations in schistosomiasis and filariasis 391 Refaat Kamel, Munther I Aldoori 30 Surgical considerations in tuberculosis 402 Vikram J Anand 31 Surgical considerations in typhoid 415 Vikram J Anand