Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Surgery - General

Introduction to surgery aims to provide a one-stop guide to the basics of surgery for surgical rotations, as well as providing information for aspiring surgeons on how to explore a surgical career and build your CV for surgical applications. It aims to be the go-to companion for any student shadowing in theatres, and a thorough guide for students wishing to spend more time in a specific specialty, conduct research and plan careers.

Introduction to Surgery for Students is an edited collection of 31 chapters from a group of 80 medical students, junior doctors and consultant surgeons....

In response to persistent donor organ shortages, organs from marginal donors, such as expanded criteria donors (ECD) and donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors, are now accepted and have been successfully transplanted, reducing the waiting times for transplantation. Especially in Japan, transplantation of DCD kidneys has a relatively long history because of the difficulty or lack of national consensus in accepting brain death, which has made it possible to accumulate considerable clinical experience. Thus, the current organ shortage has stimulated interest in the use of marginal donors...

This second edition book reinforces the curriculum of the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) courses and also provides guidance to individual surgeons who have not had the opportunity to attend these courses. Thus, this book is a valuable reference for medical students, surgical residents, and young surgical faculty. It gives an overview of the other titles of the Success in Academic Surgery Series, and will include additional chapters on global surgery, surgical QI and getting started in leadership.

While many of the topics are stable over time, health services research is...

This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Dr. Adrian Dan, is devoted to Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He has assembled expert authors to review the following topics: A Historical Perspective of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery; The Socio-economic Impact of Morbid Obesity and Factors Affecting Access to Obesity Surgery; Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass-Surgical Technique and Peri-operative Care; Revisional Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery; Novel Endoscopic and Surgical Techniques for treatment of Morbid Obesity -A Glimpse into the Future; Management and...