Kirby I. Bland – General Surgery (Second edition)

Автор: Kirby I. Bland
Название книги: General Surgery (Second edition)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Хирургия
Страницы: 2069
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Principles and International Practice acknowledge the essential contribution for the general surgeon and resident-in-training of an accessible, concise, and state-of-the-art olume that explores and documents evolutionary principles for the practice of surgery. The editors further acknowledge the physical, psychologic, and socioeconomic importance of surgical diseases and their impact on society. These facts are evident in that the scientific community continues to witness extraordinary advances in the therapy of both benign and malignant surgical diseases of various organ sites. Much of this progress has been especially evident over the past decade. Implicit in these advances are new concepts and techniques of management that allow the surgeon to integrate this discipline with medicine, pharmacology, immunology, biostatistics, pathology, genetics, medical and radiation oncology, and diagnostic radiology and imaging. Further, each of these major disciplines contributes a small component for the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to clinical care; hence, the comprehensive planning, integration, and provision of patient care throughout preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of care remains essential in the successful practice of our specialty.
The editors, therefore, acknowledge that the aim of this work is to provide an illustrative,
nstructive, and comprehensive textbook that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles
essential to surgical therapy. Many treatises are available currently that integrate scientific rationale, clinical trials, multidisciplinary approaches, and outcomes with anatomic and technical maneuvers for the management of surgical diseases. In organizing this textbook, the editors chose authors renowned n the disciplines for illustrating, informing, and depicting in a comprehensive fashion the surgical therapy expectant for metabolic, infectious, endocrine, and neoplastic derangements in adult and pediatric patients from a truly international and multi-continental perspective. The editors and authors were chosen carefully from across geographies and also from multi-cultural and diverse locations. While the authors consider this text to be inclusive regarding the technical and operative considerations for preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care, its purpose should not be intended to replace standard textbooks of surgery, nor should it be considered complete in its coverage of pathophysiologic disorders. In contrast, this text is organized to familiarize practicing surgeons, residents, and fellows with state-of-the-art surgical principles and techniques that are essential to contemporary practice. Therefore, the tenor of the book has been developed to co-exist with other major surgical reference texts that are dedicated – some in a more comprehensive fashion – to the therapy of individual organs and systemic diseases. Our book is much more a ‘‘working text’’ for the practicing surgeon with emphasis on diagnosis and treatment. All chapters in General Surgery: Principles and International Practice include a condensed bibliography of highly selective journal articles, reviews, and texts. In this manner of attempting to be concise, we hope to provide precise focus for the education of the reader relative to accepted surgical principles nvolved in patient management. Moreover, the editors have sought to provide a counterviewpoint for the selection of therapy by presenting at the opening of each chapter, a list of ‘‘Pearls and Pitfalls’’ that highlight particular concerns.