THE WASHINGTON MANUAL™ OF SURGERY This title has been archived.

Author: Mary Klingensmith, MD, Li Chen, MD, Sean Glasgow, MD, Trudie Goers, MD, Spencer Melby, MD
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN 10: 0781774470
ISBN 13: 9780781774475
Edition: 5th

Description:

Revised and updated by residents and faculty of one of the world's top surgical training programs, The Washington Manual of Surgery, Fifth Edition provides concise guidelines and algorithms for diagnosis and management of surgical diseases. The book's pocket size and user-friendly outline format ensure fast access to information. This edition incorporates evidence-based medicine into each chapter, so readers can fully understand the reasoning behind the recommendations. Minimally invasive techniques, including endovascular, are incorporated into all relevant anatomical site and disease chapters. Coverage of vascular disease has been reorganized into three chapters: cerebrovascular disease, thoracoabdominal vascular disease, and peripheral vascular disease.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

GENERAL AND PERIOPERATIVE CARE OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT

    NUTRITION

    LIFE SUPPORT AND ANESTHESIA

    FLUID, ELECTROLYTE, AND ACID-BASE DISORDERS

    HEMOSTASIS AND TRANSFUSION THERAPY

      WOUND HEALING AND CARE

      CRITICAL CARE

        ESOPHAGUS

        STOMACH

        SMALL INTESTINE

          ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN AND APPENDICITIS

          COLON, RECTUM, AND ANUS

          PANCREAS

            SURGICAL DISEASES OF THE LIVER

            BILIARY SURGERY

              SPLEEN

              CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE ANDVASCULAR ACCESS

              THORACOABDOMINAL VASCULAR DISEASE

                PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASE

                VENOUS DISEASE, THROMBOEMBOLISM, AND LYMPHEDEMA

                ENDOCRINE SURGERY

                TRAUMA SURGERY

                TRANSPLANTATION

                BURNS

                SKIN AND SOFT-TISSUE TUMORS

                HERNIAS

                  BREAST DISEASES

                  OTOLARYNGOLOGY: HEAD AND NECK SURGERY

                    PLASTIC AND HAND SURGERY

                    CARDIAC SURGERY

                      GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY

                        PEDIATRIC SURGERY

                          NEUROSURGICAL EMERGENCIES

                          ORTHOPEDIC INJURIES

                          UROLOGIC SURGERY

                          OBSTETRIC AND GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY

                          COMMON SURGICAL PROCEDURES