Current Surgical Guidelines, 2nd Edition

Back for a second edition, Current Surgical Guidelines has been fully updated to reflect changes in guidelines across the surgical sub-specialities since its first publication. Drawing together printed and digital guidelines from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), and relevant US guidelines, this book acts as a valuable complete and comprehensive reference for those embarking on their surgical training, revising for exams, or for senior staff as an aide-memoire.

Guidelines have been distilled into summary tables, and topics are formulated to answer most real-life clinical practice questions with contemporary facts and figures, decision recommendations, and treatment options. New chapters on hernias, skin malignancies, trauma, and medicolegal practice have been added to increase fresh challenges facing the contemporary surgical trainee.

Table of Contents

1. Principles of evidence-based medicine
1: Principles of evidence-based medicine
2. General care of the surgical patient
2: Principles of good surgical practice
3: Medico-legal aspects of surgical practice
4: Principles of admission management
5: Day case surgery
6: Good consent practice
7: Preoperative assessment
8: Perioperative fasting
9: Perioperative medical complications
10: Principles of wound care
11: Preoperative assessment of bleeding risk
12: Venous thromboembolism
13: Principles of infective endocarditis
14: Principles of blood transfusion
15: Perioperative anticoagulation management
16: Principles of care of critically ill patients
17: Principles of trauma management
18: Sepsis and septic shock
19: Antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery
20: Principles of infection control
21: Principles of pain management
22: Principles of nutritional support
3. Oesophagus
23: Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD)
24: Ingestion of foreign bodies
25: Achalasia
26: Oesophageal cancer
27: Barrett’s oesophagus
28: Management of oesophageal variceal haemorrhage
4. Stomach and duodenum
29: Peptic ulcer disease
30: Gastric cancer
31: Neuroendocrine tumours
32: Surgery for obesity
5. Small bowel and appendix
33: Acute appendicitis
6. Colorectal
34: Constipation in adults
35: Diverticular disease
36: Anal fissures
37: Haemorrhoid disease
38: Colorectal cancer
7. Pancreas
39: Acute pancreatitis
40: Chronic pancreatitis
41: Pancreatic cancer
8. Hepatobiliary
42: Gallstone disease
43: Surgical management of liver metastasis
44: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and Hepatic Hydatid Disease (HHD)
9. Spleen
45: Prevention of post-splenectomy sepsis (PSS)
10. Vascular
46: Chronic limb ischaemia
47: Carotid artery stenosis
48: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)
49: Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI)
11. Breast
50: Breast cancer
51: Benign breast diseases
12. Endocrine
52: Thyroid nodules and cancer
53: Surgery for hyperparathyroidism
13. Hernia
54: Abdominal wall hernias
14. Skin
55: Principles of skin malignancies management