General Surgery [Paperback]

Updated, revised and organized, the new Second Editions in the Clinical Sciences Series reflect the format of the USMLE Step 2. Each volume systematically presents the core information of a single segment of the medical curriculum, from Family Medicine to Psychiatry. You will also learn time-honored tricks of the trade,as well as the latest advances in clinical medicine: new diagnostic tools, new therapeutic interventions, and new pharmacologic options.1 Fluids, Electrolytes, Nutrition.- Basic principles.- The normal fluids and electrolytes and their maintenance.- Abnormalities.- Nutrition.- 2 Shock.- Hypovolemic shock.- Cardiogenic shock.- Septic shock.- Neurogenic shock.- 3 Clotting Disorders and Use of Blood Products.- Clotting disorders.- Blood replacement therapy.- 4 Surgical Infections.- Classification of surgical wounds.- Pathogenesis of infection.- Prevention of surgical infection.- Community acquired infections.- Hospital acquired infection.- 5 Multiple Trauma.- Primary surveyABCDE.- Secondary survey.- 6 Burns.- Types and classification of burn injuries.- Treatment.- 7 Wound Healing.- Pathophysiology.- Classification of wounds.- Use of prophylactic antibiotics.- Wound care.- 8 Acute Abdominal Pain.- General aspects.- Acute appendicitis.- Pelvic inflammatory disease.- Ectopic pregnancy.- Biliary disease.- Acute pancreatitis.- Perforated duodenal ulcer.- Acute diverticulitis.- Small bowel obstruction (SBO).- Genitourinary problems.- 9 Esophagus.- Anatomic points of interest.- Physiology.- Pathology.- 10 Stomach.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Diagnostic tools.- Peptic ulcer disease.- Gastric ulcer disease.- Post-gastrectomy syndromes.- Gastric cancer.- 11 Small Bowel.- Anatomy.- Physiology.- Crohns Disease.- Small bowel obstruction.- Diverticular disease.- Small bowel neoplasms.- 12 Appendix.- Inflammation.- Neoplasias.- Chaper 13 Colon.- Neoplastic diseases.- Diverticular disease.- Inflammatory bowel disease.- Large bowel obstruction.- Lower GI hemorrhage.- 14 Rel“'