Main description:

General Principles of Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy.

The chapters provide pertinent and concise summaries of the fundamental principles in surgery, spanning anesthesia, fluids, nutrition, bleeding, blood transfusion, circulatory monitoring and pain management. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict these surgical principles.

A concise, handbook-sized reference work, this book is a valuable resource for all general surgeons and residents in training.

Contents:

Anesthesia and Risk Management.- Fluids and Electrolytes.- Nutritional Support in the Surgical Patient.- Abnormal Bleeding and Coagulopathies.- Blood Transfusion and Alternative Therapies.- Circulatory Monitoring.- Acute Pain Management.