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Written by leaders in the field, Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving, provides surgical residents and house staff with a current, concise and algorithmic approach to frequently encountered clinical challenges. Over 100 chapters detail every common surgical disease in the form of a succinct text coupled with a step-by-step algorithm. Each chapter walks the reader through the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the most common surgical problems. Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition includes new chapters in trauma, abdominal surgery, and critical care. Among the new chapters, readers will find: traumatic hematuria, knee dislocation, hip fractures, extremity fractures, indications for renal and liver transplantation, management of cardiac arrhythmias, ventilator management, hypoxia and pulmonary embolism, and the hypertensive postoperative patient. Following the success of the first edition, this revision provides an excellent quick reference and is an absolute essential for practicing surgeons, surgical house staff, and for medical students in their surgical clerkship.

Surgical diseases. --- Diagnosis, Surgical. --- Therapeutics, Surgical. --- Surgical diseases --- Surgical therapeutics --- Surgery --- Therapeutics --- Operative diagnosis --- Surgical diagnosis --- Diagnosis --- Surgical conditions --- Surgical disorders --- Diseases --- Treatment --- Surgery. --- Surgery, Primitive --- Medicine

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Written by leaders in the field, the third edition of Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving, provides surgical residents and medical students with a current, concise and algorithmic approach to frequently encountered clinical challenges. Each chapter details every common surgical disease in the form of a succinct text coupled with step-by-step algorithm. It also walks the reader through the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the most common surgical problems. Thoroughly updated and revised, the third edition focuses on problems most frequently encountered by general surgeons and their residents and students. More factual information is included in the form of charts and tables for quick and easy reference. The section on critical care is updated and expanded. The section on pre-operative considerations has new chapters on how to best manage patient's medications before surgery (anticoagulants, anti-platelet drugs) and prophylaxis of deep venous thrombosis. Other new chapters include access for hemodialysis, adrenal incidentaloma, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, management of abdominal wall defects, hyperglycemia, necrotizing soft tissue infections and SIRS/sepsis. Especially pertinent in todays' medical environment is an understanding of the genetic component of certain cancers and chapters are devoted to screening and treating patients with genetic predispositions to colorectal and breast cancer.

Medicine & Public Health. --- General Surgery. --- Abdominal Surgery. --- Colorectal Surgery. --- Transplant Surgery. --- Vascular Surgery. --- Medicine. --- Abdomen --- Colon (Anatomy) --- Surgery. --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Médecine --- Côlon --- Chirurgie --- Greffe (Chirurgie) --- Abdomen_xSurgery. --- Colon (Anatomy)_xSurgery. --- Transplantation of organs, tissu. --- Surgery, Operative --- Pathologic Processes --- Publication Formats --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Risk --- Probability --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Publication Characteristics --- Diseases --- Statistics as Topic --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Investigative Techniques --- Postoperative Complications --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Handbooks --- Risk Assessment --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Surgery - General and By Type --- Surgery --- Algorithms --- Algorism --- Abdominal surgery. --- Rectum --- Surgical transplantation. --- Vascular surgery. --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Foundations --- Vascular surgery --- Abdominal surgery --- Laparotomy --- Surgery, Primitive --- Medicine --- Rectum—Surgery . --- Medical transplantation --- Organ transplantation --- Organ transplants --- Organs (Anatomy) --- Surgical transplantation --- Tissue transplantation --- Tissues --- Transplant surgery --- Transplantation surgery --- Transplants, Organ --- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. --- Transplantation