Essentials of Surgical Specialties

Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Essentials of Surgical Specialties provides third and fourth-year medical students the clinical foundations of surgical specialties. The text is organized by specialty, and each chapter provides the basic skills needed in each of the core rotations.New to this edition: updated information on treatment options, imaging modalities, operative techniques, advances in laproscopic […]

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Children's Consent to Surgery

Publisher: Open University Press
Explores when children are old enough to understand medical information and make wise decisions. It is based on interviews with children undergoing surgery, their parents and many of the staff caring for them in 4 city hospitals. It explains that the child patients challenge the accepted ideas about their rights, interests and […]

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Portable Surgical Mentor

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Time and budget constraints have severely and negatively altered how interns and residents in surgery are trained. This work provides a guide to the day-to-day processes of the intern and resident in surgery and prepares trainees to not only survive, but also to thrive in this intense environment.

Available at Blackwell Books. […]

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Surgery

Publisher: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd
Contains 100 EMQ's for finals and covers the entire surgical syllabus. This book offers: one hundred EMQ themes over 6 practice papers; questions written in a similar style to the universities Medical Assessment Partnership (UMAP) bank; includes harder stems suitable for students aiming for honours; and, full explanatory answers.

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Principles and Practice of Pediatric Surgery

Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
A reference on pediatric surgery. It provides complete information on the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases and injuries in infants and children. It gives clinically focused coverage of each organ system, including sections on surgical oncology, the thorax, the abdomen, and trauma and chapters on endocrine surgery.

Available at Blackwell Books. […]

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Arthroscopic Knot Tying

Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Featuring more than 260 photographs and easy-to-follow outlined instructions, this book offers guidance to arthroscopic knot tying. It explains the key concepts behind arthroscopic knot tying, shows how to hold the suture and use the various knot-tying devices, and demonstrates the steps necessary to tie a biomechanically sound arthroscopic knot.

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