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Fifth Edition
By
Alden Harken, MD, Professor of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francosco, CA; Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco-East Bay, Oakland, CA
Ernest Moore, MD, Professor and Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Chief of Surgery, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO
Description
The Secrets Series? is breaking new ground again. The leading volume in the very popular Secrets Series? is back in an exciting, updated,
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Audience
3rd & 4th year Medical Students, Residents, Practitioners
Contents
I. GENERAL TOPICS
1. Are You Ready for Your Surgery Rotation?
2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
3. Evaluation and Treatment
of Cardiac Dysrhythmias
4. How to Think about Shock
5. What is Pulmonary Insufficiency?
6. Why Get Arterial Blood Gases?
7. Fluids, Electrolytes,
Gatorade, and Sweat
8. Nutritional Assessment and Enteral Nutrition
9. Parenteral Nutrition
10. What Does Postoperative Fever Mean?
11.
Oxygen Monitoring and Assessment
12. Central Venous and Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring
13. Surgical Wound Infection
14. Priorities
in Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen
15. Surgical Infectious Disease
II. TRAUMA
16. Initial Assessment
17. Posttraumatic
Hemorrhagic Shock
18. Traumatic Brain Injury
19. Spinal Cord Injuries
20. Penetrating Neck Trauma
21. Blunt Thoracic Trauma
22. Penetrating
Thoracic Trauma
23. Blunt Abdominal Trauma
24. Penetrating Abdominal Trauma
25. Hepatic and Biliary Trauma
26. Splenic Trauma
27. Pancreatic
and Duodenal Injury
28. Trauma to the Colon and Rectum
29. Pelvic Fractures
30. Upper Urinary Tract Injuries
31. Lower Urinary Tract
Injury and Pelvic Trauma
32. Extremity Vascular Injuries
33. Facial Lacerations
34. Basic Care of Hand Injuries
35. Burns
36. Pediatric
Trauma
III. ABDOMINAL SURGERY
37. Appendicitis Can Be Tough to Diagnose
38. Gallbladder Disease
39. Pancreatic Cancer
40. Acute Pancreatitis
41. Diagnosis and Therapy of Chronic Pancreatitis
42. Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices
43. Gastroesophageal
Reflux Disease
44. Esophageal Cancer
45. Acid-Peptic Ulcer Disease
46. Small Bowel Obstruction
47. Intestinal Ischemia
48. Diverticular
Disease of the Colon
49. Acute Large Bowel Obstruction
50. Inflammatory Bowel Disease
51. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
52. Lower Gastrointestinal
Bleeding
53. Colorectal Polyps
54. Colorectal Carcinoma
55. Anorectal Disease
56. Inguinal Hernia
IV. ENDOCRINE SURGERY
57. Hyperparathyroidism
58. Hyperthyroidism
59. Thyroid Nodules and Cancer
60. Surgical Hypertension
V. BREAST SURGERY
61. Breast Masses
62. Primary Therapy for Breast Cancer
VI. OTHER CANCERS
63. What Is Cancer?
64. Melanoma
65. Parotid
Tumors
66. Hodgkin?s Disease and Malignant Lymphomas
67. Neck Masses
VII. VASCULAR SURGERY
68. What Is Atherosclerosis?
69. Arterial Insufficiency
70. Carotid Disease
71. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
72. Venous Disease
73. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory
VIII. CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY
74. Coronary Artery Disease
75. Mitral Stenosis
76. Mitral Regurgitation
77. Aortic Valvular
Disease
78. Thoracic Surgery for Non-neoplastic Disease
79. Lung Cancer
80. Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
81. Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm
IX. PEDIATRIC SURGERY
82. Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
83. Intestinal Obstruction of Neonates and Infants
84. Imperforate
Anus
85. Tracheoesophageal Malformations
86. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
87. Abdominal Tumors
88. Congenital Cysts and Sinuses of
the Neck
X. TRANSPLANTATION
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89. Liver Transplantation
90. Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
91. Heart Transplantation
92. Lung Transplantation
XI. UROLOGY
93. The Surgical Approach to Infertility
94. Urinary Calculus Disease
95. Renal
Cell Carcinoma
96. Bladder Cancer
97. Prostate Cancer
98. Urodynamics and Voiding Dysfunction
99. Pediatric Urology
XII. HEALTH
CARE
100. Can Health Care Be Reformed?
101. Risks of Bloodborne Disease
102. Ethics in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
INDEX
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 496 pages, publication date: NOV-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-03416-6
ISBN-10: 0-323-03416-0
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 27 Sep 2008
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