Overview
Main description
Schwartz's Manual of Surgery has become the resource of choice for both practicing physicians, residents, and even surgical clerkship students who are interested in a comprehensive, yet concise on-the-job manual detailing the most current practices and trends.
- This edition reflects the most extensive revisions ever with a greater focus on surgical techniques and a superb array of new visuals including more tables, charts, highlighted topics, radiologic images, and surgical procedures throughout
- New to this edition: staging tables for cancer, anesthesia guidance, pre-and-postoperative management of the surgical patient, and much more
Table of contents
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery Self-Assessment and Board ReviewPART I:Basic Considerations 1 The Systemic Response to Injury2 Fluid and Electrolyte Management of the Surgical Patient 3 Hemostasis, Surgical Bleeding, and Transfusion4 Shock5 Surgical Infections 6 Trauma7 Burns 8 Wound Care and Wound Healing 9 Oncology 10 Immunology of Transplantation 11 Surgical Complications12 Physiologic Monitoring and Anesthesia of the Surgical Patient 13 Principles of Minimally Invasive Surgery 14 Genomics, Proteomics, and Molecular Therapies Part II:Specific Considerations15 Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue 16 Breast18 Chest Wall, Pleura, Lung and Mediastinum19 Congenital Heart DiseaseAcquired Heart Disease21 Thoracic Aneurysms and Aortic Dissection22 Arterial Disease23 Venous and Lymphatic Disease 24 Esophagus and Diaphragmatic Hernia25 Stomach26 Morbid Obesity 27 Small Intestine28 Colon, Rectum, and Anus29 Appendix30 Liver31 Gallbladder and Extrahepatic Biliary System 32 Pancreas33 Spleen 34 Abdominal Wall, Omentum, Mesentery, and Retroperitoneum 35 Sarcomas 36 Inguinal Hernias 37 Thyroid and Parathyroid and Adrenal38 Pediatric Surgery39 Urology40 Gynecology41 Neurosurgery 42 Orthopedics43 Surgery of the Hand44 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery45 Geriatrics 46 Ethical Issues in Surgery
Author comments
F. Charles Brunicardi, MD - Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Dana K. Anderson, MD - Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical School
Timothy R. Billiar, MD - Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
David L. Dunn, MD, PhD - University of Minnesota Medical School
John G. Hunter, MD, FACS - Department of Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University
Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD, FACS - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
