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Title Learning surgery : the surgery clerkship manual / editor, Stephen F. Lowry ; associate editors, Rocco G. Ciocca, Candice Rettie
Published New York : Springer, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 791 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Content -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Part I: Introduction to Clinical Surgery in the Surgical Clerkship Setting -- 1 Perioperative Care of the Surgery Patient -- 2 Practicing Evidence-Based Surgery -- 3 Nutrition Support in the Surgery Patient -- 4 Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Disorders in the Surgery Patient -- 5 Surgical Critical Care -- 6 Principles of Infection: Prevention and Treatment -- 7 Shock -- 8 Surgical Bleeding and Hemostasis -- 9 Bioethical Principles and Clinical Decision Making -- 10 Clerkship Survival Skills: Speed Reading and Successful Examination Strategies -- Part II: Management of Surgical Diseases During the Clerkship -- 11 Head and Neck Lesions -- 12 Swallowing Difficulty and Pain -- 13 Hemoptysis, Cough, and Pulmonary Lesions -- 14 Heart Murmurs: Congenital Heart Disease -- 15 Heart Murmurs: Acquired Heart Disease -- 16 Acute and Chronic Chest Pain -- 17 Stroke -- 18 Surgical Hypertension -- 19 Breast Disease -- 20 Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- 21 Abdominal Pain -- 22 Abdominal Masses: Solid Organs and Gastrointestinal -- 23 Abdominal Masses: Vascular -- 24 Jaundice -- 25 Colon and Rectum -- 26 Perianal Complaints -- 27 Groin Hernias and Masses, and Abdominal Hernias -- 28 The Ischemic Lower Extremity -- 29 The Swollen Leg -- 30 Skin and Soft Tissues -- 31 Trauma Fundamentals -- 32 Evaluation and Management of Traumatic Brain Injury -- 33 Musculoskeletal Injuries -- 34 Burns -- 35 Principles of Perioperative Care of the Pediatric Surgical Patient -- 36 Neonatal Intestinal Obstruction -- 37 Lower Urinary Tract Disorders -- 38 Evaluation of Flank Pain -- 39 Scrotal Disorders -- 40 Transplantation of the Kidney -- 41 Transplantation of the Pancreas -- 42 Transplantation of the Liver -- Index -- Last Page
Summary "Learning Surgery: The Surgery Clerkship Manual will serve as a fundamental guide to decision making for many common surgical problems. Instructive case examples and an emphasis on an evidence-based approach prepares readers for important surgical management decisions. The book comprehensively covers the basic skills and principles necessary to evaluate and treat the surgical patient and includes management algorithms for specific surgical diseases." "Learning Surgery, adapted from Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, is a concise introduction to the contemporary practice of surgery. Medical students, beginning residents, and referring physicians will find this book to be an invaluable resource."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Surgery -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Clinical clerkship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Surgery.
Surgery, Operative.
Clinical clerkship.
Evidence-based medicine.
General Surgery
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Clinical Clerkship
Evidence-Based Medicine
surgeries (health facilities)
surgery (health care function)
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Surgery.
Clinical Clerkship.
Surgery, Operative
Evidence-based medicine
Clinical clerkship
Surgery
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Lowry, Stephen F
Ciocca, Rocco G
Rettie, Candice
ISBN 0387225838
9780387225838
0387283102
9780387283104