
Current Surgical Guidelines
Abdullah Jibawi and David Cade
Print publication date: Oct 2009
ISBN: 9780199558278
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Abstract
Current Surgical Guidelines covers the main conditions requiring surgical care, such as breast cancer, critically ill surgical patients, and diverticular disease, and focuses on the evidence and selection criteria which determine the best action to take. Recommendations are graded according to relevant current guidelines and all benefits/risk decision recommendations are supported by easy-to-digest facts and figures.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Part 1 Principles of evidence-based medicine
- Part 2 General care of the surgical
patient
- Chapter 2 Principles of good surgical practice
- Chapter 3 Principles of admission management
- Chapter 4 Day case surgery
- Chapter 5 Good consent practice
- Chapter 6 Preoperative assessment
- Chapter 7 Perioperative fasting
- Chapter 8 Perioperative medical
complications
- Chapter 9 Principles of wound
care
- Chapter 10 Preoperative assessment of
bleeding risk
- Chapter 11 Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis
- Chapter 12 Prevention of infective
endocarditis (IE)
- Chapter 13 Principles of blood
transfusion
- Chapter 14 Perioperative anticoagulation
management
- Chapter 15 Principles of care of
critically ill patients
- Chapter 16 Sepsis and septic
shock
- Chapter 17 Antibiotic prophylaxis in
surgery
- Chapter 18 Principles of infection
control
- Chapter 19 Principles of pain
management
- Chapter 20 Principles of nutritional
support
- Part 3 Oesophagus
- Part 4 Stomach and duodenum
- Part 5 Small bowel and appendix
- Part 6 Colorectal
- Part 7 Pancreas
- Part 8 Hepatobiliary
- Part 9 Spleen
- Part 10 Vascular
- Part 11 Breast
- Part 12 Endocrine
- End Matter