Publisher's Synopsis
This textbook is for house surgeons and final-year medical students. The first part of the book covers general surgical management and ward care. The second part deals with individual surgical conditions. The book gives details of day-to-day management of patients including the steps needed to make and prove a diagnosis, and to prepare the patient for surgery.;This edition has been updated and revised throughout, and new sections include AIDS, surgical audit, hepatic surgery and lymphoedema. Sections on diagnosis and management are laid out in a similar way to cover the condition, making the diagnosis, proving the diagnosis, pre-operative management, operative details and post-operative care. Each operation is coded to give figures for amount of blood to cross match, type of anaesthetic, operative time, post-operative stay, time off work, and the time at which drains and sutures should be removed.
