Table of Contents

Current Surgical Diagnosis & Treatment 1. Approach to the Surgical Patient 2. Energy Sources in Surgery 3. Preoperative Care 4. Postoperative Care 5. Postoperative Complications 6. Speical Medical Problems in Surgical Patients 7. Legal Medicine for the Surgeon 8. Wound Healing 9. The Metabolic & Neuroendocrine Responses to Trauma & Operations 10. Inflammation, Infection & Antibiotics 11. Fluid & Electrolyte Management 12. Surgical Metabolism & Nutrition 13. Antesthesia 14.Shock & Acute Pulmonary Failure in Surgical Patients 15. Managment of the Injured Patient 16. Burns & Other Thermal Injuries 17. Head & Neck Tumors 18. Thyroid & Parathyroid 19. Breast 20. Thoracic Wall, Pleura, Mediastinum, & Lung 21. The Heart: I. Acquired Diseases The Heart II: Congenital Heart Diseases 22. Esophagus & Diaphragm 23. The Acute Abdomen 24. Peritoneal Cavity 25. Stomach & Duodenum 26. Liver & Portal Venous System 27. Biliary Tract 28. Pancreas 29. Spleen 30. Appendix 31. Small Intestine 32. Large Intestine 33. Anorectum 34. Hernias & Other Lesions of the Abdominal Wall 35. Adrenals 36. Arteries 37. Amputation 38. Veins & Lymphatics 39. Neurosurgery & Surgery of the Pituitary 40. Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery 41. The Eye & Ocular Adnexa 42. Urology 43. Gynecology 44. Orthopedics 45. Plastic & Recontructive Surgery 46. Hand Surgery 47. Pediatric Surgery 48. Oncology 49. Organ Transplant

About the Author

Gerard M. Doherty, MD is the N.W. Thompson Professor of Endocrine Surgery; Chief, Division of Endocrine Surgery; and Section Head, General Surgery, in the Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Reviews

"Doherty and Way (surgery, U. of Michigan and U. of California, San Francisco, respectively) bring together 47 chapters by surgeons and medical practitioners from the US who discuss the diagnosis and treatment of about 1000 diseases and disorders. The focus is on major diagnostic features and brief descriptions of disease processes. Epidemiology, pathophysiology, pathology, and general medical and surgical topics are incorporated. Chapters are grouped by organ system as well as by topics such as preparation, postoperative care, surgical complications, and pediatric surgery. This edition has been updated to cover modern surgical care, including colon/rectal surgery, and new information on power sources in the operating room. The chapter on special problems, including pregnancy and older patients, has been rewritten. Other revisions are to chapters on injured patients, the esophagus and diaphragm, the liver and portal venus systems, oncology, and organ transplantation." Sci-Tech Book News 20061201