For over 30 years Surgery has been at the forefront of providing high quality articles, written by experienced authorities and designed for candidates sitting the Intercollegiate surgery examinations. The journal covers the whole of the surgical syllabus as represented by the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum. Each topic is covered in a rolling programme of updates thus ensuring contemporaneous coverage of the core curriculum.
For the first time the articles on critical care and emergency surgery are now available in ebook format. This collection of approximately 40 articles will be ideal for revision for the Intercollegiate MRCS examination as well as a useful update for all seeking to keep abreast with the latest advances in this particular branch of surgery
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Copyright - p. 6 5. Preface - p. 7 6. About The Surgery Journal - p. 8 7. Issue Editors for Critical Illness and Emergency Surgery - p. 9 8. Critical Illness and Intensive Care - p. 10 9. Basic metabolism: protein - p. 11 10. Design, organization and staffing of the intensive care unit - p. 16 11. Transporting the adult critically ill patient - p. 21 12. Criteria for intensive care unit admission and severity of illness - p. 25 13. Care of the critically ill patient - p. 31 14. Indications for and management of tracheostomies - p. 37 15. Outcome from intensive care and measuring performance - p. 43 16. Long-term consequences of critical illness - p. 48 17. Mechanisms of hypoxaemia and the interpretation of arterial blood gases - p. 52 18. Haemodynamics and cardiovascular shock - p. 58 19. Respiratory failure - p. 63 20. Chest imaging in the intensive care unit - p. 68 21. Advanced ventilation management - p. 72 22. Acute kidney injury in surgical patients - p. 77 23. Management of the circulation on the intensive care unit - p. 83 24. Gastrointestinal dysfunction - p. 90 25. Sedation and delirium in the intensive care unit - p. 94 26. End-of-life care on the intensive care unit in England and Wales: an overview for hospital medical practitioners - p. 99 27. Test yourself I: MCQ and extended matching - p. 103 28. Test yourself II: MCQ and extended matching - p. 104 29. Emergency surgery - p. 105 30. Physiology of shock and volume resuscitation - p. 106 31. Lower gastrointestinal emergencies and appendicitis - p. 112 32. Upper gastrointestinal emergencies - p. 120 33. Control of major haemorrhage and damage control surgery - p. 126 34. Recognition and management of intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome - p. 134 35. Imaging and radiological interventions for the acute abdomen - p. 139 36. Test yourself: MCQ and extended matching - p. 146 37. Neurosurgery - p. 147 38. Anatomy of head injury - p. 148 39. Anatomy of the cranial nerves - p. 150 40. Pathology of tumours of the central nervous system - p. 154 41. Brain oedema, intracranial pressure and cerebral blood flow - p. 161 42. The fundamentals of head injury - p. 165 43. Spinal emergencies - p. 170 44. Surgical complications of paralysis - p. 175 45. Spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage - p. 180 46. Hydrocephalus - p. 185 47. Peripheral nerve lesions - p. 189 48. Tumours of the central nervous system - p. 194 49. Test yourself: MCQ and extended matching - p. 200
For over 30 years Surgery has been at the forefront of providing high quality articles, written by experienced authorities and designed for candidates sitting the Intercollegiate surgery examinations. The journal covers the whole of the surgical syllabus as represented by the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum. Each topic is covered in a rolling programme of updates thus ensuring contemporaneous coverage of the core curriculum.
For the first time the articles on critical care and emergency surgery are now available in ebook format. This collection of approximately 40 articles will be ideal for revision for the Intercollegiate MRCS examination as well as a useful update for all seeking to keep abreast with the latest advances in this particular branch of surgery
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Copyright - p. 6 5. Preface - p. 7 6. About The Surgery Journal - p. 8 7. Issue Editors for Critical Illness and Emergency Surgery - p. 9 8. Critical Illness and Intensive Care - p. 10 9. Basic metabolism: protein - p. 11 10. Design, organization and staffing of the intensive care unit - p. 16 11. Transporting the adult critically ill patient - p. 21 12. Criteria for intensive care unit admission and severity of illness - p. 25 13. Care of the critically ill patient - p. 31 14. Indications for and management of tracheostomies - p. 37 15. Outcome from intensive care and measuring performance - p. 43 16. Long-term consequences of critical illness - p. 48 17. Mechanisms of hypoxaemia and the interpretation of arterial blood gases - p. 52 18. Haemodynamics and cardiovascular shock - p. 58 19. Respiratory failure - p. 63 20. Chest imaging in the intensive care unit - p. 68 21. Advanced ventilation management - p. 72 22. Acute kidney injury in surgical patients - p. 77 23. Management of the circulation on the intensive care unit - p. 83 24. Gastrointestinal dysfunction - p. 90 25. Sedation and delirium in the intensive care unit - p. 94 26. End-of-life care on the intensive care unit in England and Wales: an overview for hospital medical practitioners - p. 99 27. Test yourself I: MCQ and extended matching - p. 103 28. Test yourself II: MCQ and extended matching - p. 104 29. Emergency surgery - p. 105 30. Physiology of shock and volume resuscitation - p. 106 31. Lower gastrointestinal emergencies and appendicitis - p. 112 32. Upper gastrointestinal emergencies - p. 120 33. Control of major haemorrhage and damage control surgery - p. 126 34. Recognition and management of intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome - p. 134 35. Imaging and radiological interventions for the acute abdomen - p. 139 36. Test yourself: MCQ and extended matching - p. 146 37. Neurosurgery - p. 147 38. Anatomy of head injury - p. 148 39. Anatomy of the cranial nerves - p. 150 40. Pathology of tumours of the central nervous system - p. 154 41. Brain oedema, intracranial pressure and cerebral blood flow - p. 161 42. The fundamentals of head injury - p. 165 43. Spinal emergencies - p. 170 44. Surgical complications of paralysis - p. 175 45. Spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage - p. 180 46. Hydrocephalus - p. 185 47. Peripheral nerve lesions - p. 189 48. Tumours of the central nervous system - p. 194 49. Test yourself: MCQ and extended matching - p. 200
