Ellis and Calnes Lecture Notes in General Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide

Authored by Justin Davies, Christopher Watson, and Calnes, Ellis and Calnes Lecture Notes in General Surgery is a widely acclaimed textbook that provides a thorough understanding of general surgery. This comprehensive guide covers the fundamentals of general surgery, as well as clinical surgical problems that medical students and doctors in training need to know.

Key Features

• Principles of treatment written at a level suitable for medical students and doctors in training
• Color illustrations throughout the text
• Electronic access to extra material, including case studies, radiological and clinical images, and biographies

Comprehensive Coverage

The textbook systematically covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Surgical strategy, human factors in surgery, fluid and nutrition management, and preoperative assessment
• Postoperative complications, acute infections, tumours, and shock
• Trauma surgery, burns, the skin and its adnexae, arterial disease, the heart and thoracic aorta, and the chest and lungs
• The brain and meninges, head injury, the spine, peripheral nerve injuries, the oral cavity and the salivary glands
• The oesophagus, stomach and duodenum, the surgery of obesity, the small intestine, the appendix, the colon, and the rectum and anal canal
• The kidney, ureter, bladder, testes and prostate

This trusted textbook has been relied upon by generations of medical students, including the current authors. Its clinical emphasis makes it an essential reference for all those wishing to learn more about general surgery.

Ellis and Calnes Lecture Notes in General Surgery is also an ideal revision text for medical students and junior surgeons preparing for the MRCS examination.

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Product Details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Edition: 14th edition
• Publication Date: February 28, 2023
• Language: English
• Pages: 528
• ISBN-10: 1119862485
• ISBN-13: 978-1119862482

This new edition is also available as an e-book. For more information, please visit www.wiley.com/buy/9781119862482.

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