Greenfield's surgery : scientific principles and practice

"The Fifth Edition of Greenfield's Surgery has been thoroughly revised, updated, and refocused to conform to changes in surgical education and practice. Reflecting the increasingly clinical emphasis of residency programs, this edition features expanded coverage of clinical material and increased use of clinical algorithms. Key Points open each chapter, and icons in the text indicate where Key Points are fully discussed. Many of the black-and-white images from the previous edition have been replaced by full-color images"--Provided by publisher. Read more... Content: Reading effectively to attain proficiency in surgery -- Substrate metabolism in surgery -- Nutrition and metabolism -- Wound healing -- Hemostasis -- Inflammation -- Surgical infections -- Shock -- Critical care -- Fluids, electrolytes, and acid-base balance -- Burns -- Anesthesiology and pain management -- Cancer -- Policy approaches to improving surgical quality -- Measuring the quality of surgical care -- Patient safety -- Trauma and trauma care: general considerations -- Prehospital and resuscitation care -- Head trauma -- Maxillofacial trauma -- Neck injuries -- Chest trauma -- Abdominal trauma -- Genitourinary trauma -- Vascular trauma -- Orthopaedic trauma -- Pediatric trauma -- Geriatric trauma and end-of-life decisions -- Trauma in pregnancy -- Critical care and postinjury management -- Environmental injuries -- Terrorism -- Transplantation immunology -- Organ preservation -- Renal transplantation -- Hepatic transplantation -- Cardiac transplantation -- Pulmonary transplantation -- Pancreas and islet transplantation -- Head and neck -- Esophagel anatomy and physiology and gastroesophageal reflux disease -- Esophagus: tumors and injury -- Gastric anatomy and physiology -- Gastroduodenal ulceration -- Morbid obesity -- Gastric neoplasms -- Anatomy and physiology of the small intestine -- Ileus and bowel obstruction -- Crohn disease -- Small-intestinal neoplasms -- Pancreas anatomy and physiology -- Acute pancreatitis -- Chronic pancreatitis -- Neoplasms of the exocrine pancreas -- Neoplasms of the endocrine pancreas -- Hepatobiliary anatomy -- Hepatic infection and acute hepatic failure -- Cirrhosis and portal hypertension -- Hepatic neoplasms -- Calculous biliary disease -- Biliary injuries and strictures and sclerosing cholangitis -- Biliary neoplasms -- Colonic and rectal anatomy and physiology -- Gastrointestinal motility disorders -- Acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage -- Ulcerative colitis -- Colonic polyps and polyposis syndromes -- Colorectal cancer -- Diverticular disease -- Anorectal disorders -- Abdominal wall hernias -- Acute abdomen and appendix -- The spleen -- Breast disease -- Thyroid gland -- Parathyroid glands -- Adrenal gland -- Pituitary gland -- Lung neoplasms -- Chest wall, pleura, mediastinum, and nonneoplastic lung disease -- Congenital heart disease -- Valvular heart disease and cardiac tumors -- Ischemic heart disease -- Mechanical circulatory support for cardiac failure -- Pericardium -- Vascular diagnostics -- Endovascular treatment of disease -- Vascular infections -- Atherosclerosis and the pathogenesis of occlusive disease -- Cerebrovascular occlusive disease -- Upper extremity arterial disease -- Renal artery occlusive and aneurysmal disease -- Splanchnic vascular occlusive and aneurysmal disease -- Aortoiliac disease -- Femoropopliteal and tibial occlusive disease -- Lower extremity amputation -- Pathogenesis of aneurysms -- Thoracic aortic aneurysms -- Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms -- Abdominal aortic aneurysms -- Lower extremity aneurysms -- Venous disease -- Surgical physiology of infants and children -- Fetal intervention -- Pediatric head and neck -- The pediatric chest -- Pediatric abdomen -- The pediatric genitourinary system -- Childhood tumors -- The pregnant patient -- Cutaneous neoplasms -- Sarcomas of soft tissue and bone -- Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Abstract: Reflecting the increasingly clinical emphasis of residency programs, this edition features expanded coverage of clinical material and increased use of clinical algorithms. It includes chapters on quality assessment, surgical education, and surgical processes in the hospital. It is organized by organ system so you can find the facts you need. Read more...