Table of Contents

PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE
1: Principles of evidence-based medicine
GENERAL CARE OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT
2: Principles of good surgical practice
3: Principles of admission management
4: Day case surgery
5: Good consent practice
6: Preoperative assessment
7: Perioperative fasting
8: Perioperative medical complications
9: Principles of wound care
10: Preoperative assessment of bleeding risk
11: Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) pro-phylaxis
12: Prevention of Infective Endocarditis
13: Principles of blood transfusion
14: Perioperative anticoagulation management
15: Principles of care of critically-ill patients
16: Sepsis and septic shock
17: Antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery
18: Principles of infection control
19: Principles of pain management
20: Principles of nutritional support
OESOPHAGUS
21: Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD)
22: Ingestion of foreign bodies
23: Achalasia
24: Oesophageal cancer
25: Barrett's oesophagus (columnar-lined oesophagus)
26: Management of oesophageal varices haemorrhage
STOMACH AND DUODENUM
27: Peptic Ulcer Disease
28: Gastric cancer
29: Neuroendocrine tumours (NET)
30: Surgery for obesity
SMALL BOWEL
31: Acute appendicitis
COLORECTAL
32: Constipation in adults
33: Diverticular disease
34: Anal fissures
35: Haemorrhoid disease
36: Colorectal cancer (CRC)
PANCREAS
37: Acute pancreatitis
38: Chronic pancreatitis
39: Pancreatic cancer
HEPATOBILIARY
40: Gallstone disease
41: Surgical management of liver metastasis
42: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
SPLEEN
43: Prevention of postsplenectomy sepsis (PSS)
VASCULAR
44: Chronic limb ischaemia
45: Carotid artery stenosis
46: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)
47: Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI)
BREAST
48: Breast cancer
49: Benign breast diseases
ENDOCRINE
50: Thyroid nodules and cancer
51: Surgery for hyperparathyroidism
Index

About the Author

Abdullah Jibawi is currently a SpR in surgery at the University Hospitals of Leicester, and a visiting researcher to Oxford University. Born in Damascas, Syria, he trained in general and laparoscopic surgery at Damascus University Hospitals before joining the Merseyside Deanery in the UK. He has been a project manager and researcher in the DOH, and joined the higher surgical training in general and vascular surgery. His special interests include modelling
techniques and decision-making processes. David Cade is a senior consultant surgeon with a special interest in colorectal surgery. He qualified from Cambridge and sits on various steering Committees in the
Department of Health. He has been interviewed by the BBC for his involvement with the development of a scoring system to detect early bowel cancers based on the Patient Consultation Questionnaire (PCQ) concept. He has also worked as a project executive with the Department of Health.

Reviews

The authors are to be commended on compiling such a comprehensive collection of contemporary surgical guidelines and presenting them so clearly that the busy clinician will have no trouble whatsoever in reading and digesting their contents I am certain that I will be referring to my own copy on a very regular basis!
*Professor N.J. London, Professor of Surgery, University of Leicester and Honorary Consultant Vascular/Endocrine Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust*

...this book is suitable to be read by all levels of doctors in surgery [and] will be useful as part of preparation for MRCS, both the theory and clinical parts...it also covers a comprehensive syllabus of general surgery and principles of surgery well. From a junior doctor point of view, [the book] will be very useful for day-to-day practice.
*K. W., surgical SHO at University Hospitals of Leicester*