Abernathy's Surgical Secrets, Updated Edition (Book w/ Student Consult)

Alden H. Harken MD; Ernest E. Moore MD

ISBN 10: 0323034160 / ISBN 13: 9780323034166

Editore: Mosby, 2004

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0323034160I4N00

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• Covers all of today's most common surgical procedures and techniques.
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Contenuti: I. GENERAL TOPICS

1. Are You Ready for Your Surgery Rotation?
2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
3. Evaluation and Treatment of Cardiac Dysrhythmias
4. How to Think about Shock
5. What is Pulmonary Insufficiency?
6. Why Get Arterial Blood Gases?
7. Fluids, Electrolytes, Gatorade, and Sweat
8. Nutritional Assessment and Enteral Nutrition
9. Parenteral Nutrition
10. What Does Postoperative Fever Mean?
11. Oxygen Monitoring and Assessment
12. Central Venous and Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring
13. Surgical Wound Infection
14. Priorities in Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen
15. Surgical Infectious Disease

II. TRAUMA

16. Initial Assessment
17. Posttraumatic Hemorrhagic Shock
18. Traumatic Brain Injury
19. Spinal Cord Injuries
20. Penetrating Neck Trauma
21. Blunt Thoracic Trauma
22. Penetrating Thoracic Trauma
23. Blunt Abdominal Trauma
24. Penetrating Abdominal Trauma
25. Hepatic and Biliary Trauma
26. Splenic Trauma
27. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injury
28. Trauma to the Colon and Rectum
29. Pelvic Fractures
30. Upper Urinary Tract Injuries
31. Lower Urinary Tract Injury and Pelvic Trauma
32. Extremity Vascular Injuries
33. Facial Lacerations
34. Basic Care of Hand Injuries
35. Burns
36. Pediatric Trauma

III. ABDOMINAL SURGERY

37. Appendicitis Can Be Tough to Diagnose
38. Gallbladder Disease
39. Pancreatic Cancer
40. Acute Pancreatitis
41. Diagnosis and Therapy of Chronic Pancreatitis
42. Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices
43. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
44. Esophageal Cancer
45. Acid-Peptic Ulcer Disease
46. Small Bowel Obstruction
47. Intestinal Ischemia
48. Diverticular Disease of the Colon
49. Acute Large Bowel Obstruction
50. Inflammatory Bowel Disease
51. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
52. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
53. Colorectal Polyps
54. Colorectal Carcinoma
55. Anorectal Disease
56. Inguinal Hernia

IV. ENDOCRINE SURGERY

57. Hyperparathyroidism
58. Hyperthyroidism
59. Thyroid Nodules and Cancer
60. Surgical Hypertension

V. BREAST SURGERY

61. Breast Masses
62. Primary Therapy for Breast Cancer

VI. OTHER CANCERS

63. What Is Cancer?
64. Melanoma
65. Parotid Tumors
66. Hodgkin's Disease and Malignant Lymphomas
67. Neck Masses

VII. VASCULAR SURGERY

68. What Is Atherosclerosis?
69. Arterial Insufficiency
70. Carotid Disease
71. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
72. Venous Disease
73. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory

VIII. CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY

74. Coronary Artery Disease
75. Mitral Stenosis
76. Mitral Regurgitation
77. Aortic Valvular Disease
78. Thoracic Surgery for Non-neoplastic Disease
79. Lung Cancer
80. Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
81. Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm

IX. PEDIATRIC SURGERY

82. Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis
83. Intestinal Obstruction of Neonates and Infants
84. Imperforate Anus
85. Tracheoesophageal Malformations
86. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
87. Abdominal Tumors
88. Congenital Cysts and Sinuses of the Neck

X. TRANSPLANTATIONBR>
89. Liver Transplantation
90. Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
91. Heart Transplantation
92. Lung Transplantation

XI. UROLOGY

93. The Surgical Approach to Infertility
94. Urinary Calculus Disease
95. Renal Cell Carcinoma
96. Bladder Cancer
97. Prostate Cancer
98. Urodynamics and Voiding Dysfunction
99. Pediatric Urology

XII. HEALTH CARE

100. Can Health Care Be Reformed?
101. Risks of Bloodborne Disease
102. Ethics in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

INDEX

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Titolo: Abernathy's Surgical Secrets, Updated ...
Casa editrice: Mosby
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket
Edizione: quinta edizione o successive