Surgery at a Glance by Grace, Pierce A.; Borley, Neil R.;

Short description:

Surgery at a Glance provides a concise and accessible introduction and revision aid for medical students undertaking their surgical attachment. The easy-to-use at a Glance format presents each topic as a double-page spread. The key facts are accompanied by clear diagrams and photographs encapsulating all that students need to know.

Long description:

Surgery at a Glance provides a concise and accessible introduction and revision aid for medical students undertaking their surgical attachment. The easy-to-use at a Glance format presents each topic as a double-page spread. The key facts are accompanied by clear diagrams and photographs encapsulating all that students need to know.

Surgery at a Glance is THE book for surgical finals. This new edition

• Now includes colour to enhance understanding
  
• Focuses on the core principles and the important diseases appropriate to the current curriculum.
  
• Is divided into clinical presentations followed by major surgical conditions.
  
• Contains 5 new chapters on:
  -stomas and incisions
  -anaesthesia
  -surgical infections
  -lymphoedema
  -solid organ transplantation.
  
• Features a new tinted box for the cancer chapters that provides the 2-week-wait referral criteria.

Surgery at a Glance will appeal to all clinical medical students, junior doctors on the Foundation Program and surgical nurses.

Reviews of last edition

?This book is ideal for finals as diagrams help the revision numbed mind to retain information. It is extremely quick and easy to read and the list-based information is an ideal basis for short-answer questions.?
Barts and the London Chronicle

?Delightful book?the quality of the diagrams is such that for the majority of topics the text is almost superfluous.?
British Journal of Surgery

Surgery at a Glance provides a concise and accessible introduction and revision aid for medical students undertaking their surgical attachment. Following the familiar, easy-to-use at a Glance format, each topic is presented as a double-page spread with key facts accompanied by clear diagrams and photographs encapsulating all that the students need to know.

This new edition of Surgery at a Glance:

• Is THE book for surgical finals.
  
• Focuses on the core principles and the important diseases appropriate to the current curriculum.
  
• Is divided into clinical presentations followed by major surgical conditions.
  
• Contains 5 new chapters on:
  -stomas and incisions
  -anaesthesia
  -surgical infections
  -lymphoedema
  -solid organ transplantation.
  
• Features a new tinted box for the cancer chapters that provides the 2-week-wait referral criteria.

Surgery at a Glance will appeal to all clinical medical students, junior doctors on the Foundation Program and surgical nurses.

Reviews of last edition

?This book is ideal for finals as diagrams help the revision numbed mind to retain information. It is extremely quick and easy to read and the list-based information is an ideal basis for short-answer questions.?
Barts and the London Chronicle

?Delightful book?the quality of the diagrams is such that for the majority of topics the text is almost superfluous.?
British Journal of Surgery

Reviews of the current edition

"Quality! It is unsurprising this textbook is such a hit with students, probably for the way it condenses the essentials of what is a massive subject into such manageable segments. Taking a symptom based journey through surgery, Surgery at a Glance gives enough information to help you get the basics so you don't look like such an iegit when on a ward round the consultant asks you for 6 clinical features of appendicitis! ...It's a smashing little book!!!" Black Bag, Bristol University Medical School Gazette

"Surgery at a Glance presents clinical students with digestible chunks of essential knowledge at their fingertips and is written in a style that is easy to understand...The style of text combined with clean cut illustrations really makes Surgery at a Glance essential, not only for junior and senior surgery firms but also for finals revision. A snip at under L20, can you afford not to have it?" Sharp, St George's Union Magazine

"Overall, this is a very modern comprehensive coverage of a range of surgical conditions. I would recommend this book as an excellent resource for any surgical unit." Journal of Perioperative Practice, May 2006

"This is a book that allows you to see the big picture, and gives you the framework to further build your knowledge base from other sources. Fans of the at a Glance series will adore it." GKT Gazette, March 2007

"(the book's) organisation enables learning to be focused in a manner that takes into account the ways that patients present to doctors and then supports it by giving details of specific conditions." Cambridge Medicine

Reviews of the previous edition

?Rating * * * * *. Excellent! Great value for money.?Cambridge Medicine, Addenbrooke's Clinical Medical School

?This book should appeal to those who like to access information with the least effort? good for cementing and organising your knowledge? does effectively what its forebears do for undergraduate subjects: simplify illustrate and explain in a user-friendly format.?

2nd Opinion, The magazine of Scottish Medical Schools

?This book is ideal for finals as diagrams help the revision-numbed mind to retain information. It is extremely quick and easy to read and the list-based information is an ideal basis for short-answer questions?

Barts and the London Chronicle

?This delightful book is the latest in the At a Glance series and only the second on a purely clinical subject? The quality of the diagrams is such that for the majority of the topics the text is almost superfluous?

British Journal of Surgery

?offers clinical students a valuable resource and revision aid for general surgery and other surgical areas that are likely to be seen in finals. Each of the 76 chapters consist of definitions, common causes, clinical features, investigations, and management; a useful strategy that can be applied to most clinical problems.?

Student BMJ

"The beauty is in the illustrations; simple line drawings, laden with succinct information and memorable." Zahra Husain, GKT Gazette

Table of Contents:

List of abbreviations.

Part 1 Clinical Presentations at a Glance.

1 Neck lump.

2 Dysphagia.

3 Haemoptysis.

4 Breast lump.

5 Breast pain.

6 Nipple discharge.

7 Haematemesis.

8 Dyspepsia.

9 Vomiting.

10 Acute abdominal pain.

11 Chronic abdominal pain.

12 Abdominal swellings (general).

13 Abdominal swellings (localized) upper abdominal.

14 Abdominal swellings (localized) lower abdominal.

15 Jaundice.

16 Rectal bleeding.

17 Diarrhoea.

18 Altered bowel habit / constipation.

19 Groin swellings.

20 Claudication.

21 Acute warm painful leg.

22 Acute ?cold' leg.

23 Leg ulceration.

24 Dysuria.

25 Urinary retention.

26 Haematuria.

27 Scrotal swellings.

28 Stomas and incisions.

Part 2 Surgical Diseases at a Glance.

29 Anaesthesia.

30 Hypoxia.

31 Shock.

32 Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS).

33 Surgical infection.

34 Acute renal failure.

35 Fractures.

36 Burns.

37 Major Trauma - basic principles.

38 Head injury.

39 Gastro-oesophageal reflux.

40 Oesophageal carcinoma.

41 Peptic ulceration.

42 Gastric carcinoma.

43 Malabsorption.

44 Crohn's disease.

45 Acute appendicitis.

46 Diverticular disease.

47 Ulcerative colitis.

48 Colorectal carcinoma.

49 Benign anal and perianal disorders.

50 Intestinal obstruction.

51 Abdominal hernias.

52 Gallstone disease.

53 Pancreatitis.

54 Pancreatic tumours.

55 Benign breast disease.

56 Breast cancer.

57 Goitre.

58 Thyroid malignancies.

59 Parathyroid disease.

60 Pituitary disorders.

61 Adrenal disorders.

62 Skin cancer.

63 Ischaemic heart disease.

64 Valvular heart disease.

65 Peripheral occlusive vascular disease.

66 The diabetic foot.

67 Aneurysms.

68 Extracranial arterial disease.

69 Deep venous thrombosis.

70 Varicose veins.

71 Lymphoedema.

72 Pulmonary collapse and postoperative pneumonia.

73 Bronchial carcinoma.

74 Urinary tract infection.

75 Benign prostatic hypertrophy.

76 Renal calculi.

77 Renal cell carcinoma.

78 Carcinoma of the bladder.

79 Carcinoma of the prostate.

80 Testicular cancer.

81 Urinary incontinence.

82 Paediatric ?general' surgery.

83 Solid organ transplantation.

Index