Principles of Surgery, Everything you Need to Know but Were Frightened to Ask
Principles of Surgery, Everything you Need to Know but Were Frightened to Ask
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手术原理,您需要知道但不敢问的一切
DOI:
10.1093/bja/aen191
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发表时间:
2008
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通讯作者:
M. Reed
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作者:
M. Wagstaff;M. Reed
The authors have taken on a difficult challenge. The title Principles of Surgery is ambiguous, meaning different things to different people. It could represent standards of surgical technique, details of consent, or when and when not to operate. In order to encompass this, with junior surgeons preparing for the College of Surgeon’s examinations in mind, they have produced a text of patient care along the operative pathway. It is separated into sections outlining preoperative care, the operating theatre environment, and postoperative care and complications. These include summaries of traditionally peripheral concerns such as medicolegal issues, confidentiality, and negligence. The book approaches a broad range of subjects, including theatre environment and equipment, such as diathermy, sutures, and needles. A useful section on pathways and protocols provides information on issues such as clinical governance and audit, integrated care pathways, ATLS, and cancer screening. The text is readable and concise, in clear and informal English, with the contents, layout, and index facilitating rapid access to relevant sections with clear illustrations. Although some areas are well covered, in order to maintain its scope and brevity, it sacrifices detail in others.In pre-admission, for example, an opportunity has been missed to cover some of the difficult perioperative management scenarios such as Jehovah’s witnesses or those suffering from a latex allergy, and pre-donation of blood as an alternative to allogenic blood transfusion is not mentioned. In the operating theatre environment section, diagrams to illustrate hand scrubbing could have complemented and abbreviated the text. The explanation of laser physics and its uses lacks the illustration of measures essential for safe practice. The differential diagnosis of the