Abernathy's Surgical Secrets, 7e

 

Description:

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series^® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review. Abernathy’s Surgical Secrets, 7th Edition, features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, and an easy-to-read style – making reference and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

The proven Secrets® format gives you the most return for your time – concise, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective.

Covers the full range of essential topics in general surgery for in-training or practicing professionals.

Written by global experts and thought leaders in surgery.

Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in practice and on exams.

Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime.

Fully updated throughout, with clear illustrations, figures, and flow diagrams that expedite study and review.

 

Table of Contents

 

Answers to the Top 100 Questions that You Will Be Asked on Rounds

I. General Topics

Chapter

1. Are you ready for your surgical rotation?

Chapter

2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Chapter

3. How to Treat All Cardiac Dysrhythmias

Chapter

4. How to Think About Shock

Chapter

5. Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and Pulmonary Insufficiency

Chapter

6. Mechanical Ventilation

Chapter

7. Why get arterial blood gases?

Chapter

8. Fluids, Electrolytes, Gatorade, and Sweat

Chapter

9. Nutritional Assessment, Parenteral, And Enteral Nutrition

Nutritional Assessment

Enteral Nutrition

Enteral Controversies

Parenteral Nutrition

Parenteral Controversies

Chapter

10. What does Postoperative Fever Mean?

Chapter

11. Surgical Wound Infection

Chapter

12. Priorities in Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen

Physical Examination

Laboratory Studies

Surgical Treatment

Chapter

13. Surgical Infectious Disease

Antibiotics

Prophylaxis

Management of Surgical Site Infections

Extra Credit Questions

Chapter

14. Risks of Blood-Borne Disease

Chapter

15. Sepsis

Chapter

16. Frailty

II. Trauma

Chapter

17. Initial Assessment

Chapter

18. Posttraumatic Hemorrhagic shock

Chapter

19. Traumatic Brain Injury

Chapter

20. Spinal Cord Injuries

Chapter

21. Penetrating Neck Trauma

Chapter

22. Blunt Thoracic Trauma

Chapter

23. Penetrating Thoracic Trauma

Chapter

24. Blunt Abdominal Trauma

Chapter

25. Penetrating Abdominal Trauma

Controversies

Chapter

26. Hepatic and Biliary Trauma

Surgical Anatomy of the Liver

Operative Management of Liver Injury

Biliary Tract Injury

Chapter

27. Splenic Trauma

Chapter

28. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injury

Duodenum

Chapter

29. Trauma to the Colon and Rectum

Colon Trauma

Rectal Trauma

Chapter

30. Pelvic Fractures

Chapter

31. Upper Urinary Tract Injuries

Chapter

32. Lower Urinary Tract Injury and Pelvic Trauma

Chapter

33. Extremity Vascular Injuries

Chapter

34. Facial Lacerations

Chapter

35. Maxillofacial Trauma

Chapter

36. Hand Injuries

Chapter

37. Burns

Chapter

38. Pediatric Trauma

III. Abdominal Surgery

Chapter

39. Appendicitis

Chapter

40. Gallbladder Disease

Chapter

41. Pancreatic Cancer

Chapter

42. Acute Pancreatitis

Chapter

43. Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Pancreatitis

Chapter

44. Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices

Chapter

45. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Controversies

Chapter

46. Esophageal Carcinoma

Chapter

47. Acid Peptic Ulcer Disease

Chapter

48. Small Bowel Obstruction

Chapter

49. Intestinal Ischemia

Controversies

Chapter

50. Diverticular Disease of the Colon

Controversies

Chapter

51. Acute Large Bowel Obstruction

Chapter

52. Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Controversies

Chapter

53. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Chapter

54. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Chapter

55. Colorectal Polyps

Chapter

56. Colorectal Carcinoma

Chapter

57. Anorectal Disease

Anal Fissure

Hemorrhoids

Pilonidal Disease

Chapter

58. Inguinal Hernia

Controversies

Chapter

59. Bariatric Surgery

IV. Endocrine Surgery

Chapter

60. Hyperparathyroidism

Chapter

61. Hyperthyroidism

Chapter

62. Thyroid Nodules and Cancer

Chapter

63. Surgical Hypertension

Chapter

64. Adrenal Incidentaloma

V. Breast Surgery

Chapter

65. Breast Masses

Chapter

66. Primary Therapy for Breast Cancer

VI. Other Cancers

Chapter

67. What is Cancer?

Chapter

68. Melanoma

Chapter

69. Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer

Chapter

70. Parotid Tumors

Chapter

71. Neck Masses

VII. Vascular Surgery

Chapter

72. What is Atherosclerosis?

Chapter

73. Arterial Insufficiency

Chapter

74. Carotid Disease

Chapter

75. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Chapter

76. Venous Disease

Chapter

77. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory

Cerebrovascular Disease

Venous Disease

Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease

Duplex us Surveillance of Vascular Therapy

Controversies

VIII. Cardiothoracic Surgery

Chapter

78. Coronary Artery Disease

Controversies

Chapter

79. Mitral Stenosis

Bonus Question

Chapter

80. Mitral Regurgitation

Bonus Question

Chapter

81. Aortic Valve Disease

Chapter

82. Thoracic Surgery for Nonneoplastic Disease

Pleural Effusion

Empyema

Infections and Tuberculosis

Chapter

83. Lung Cancer

Chapter

84. Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

Chapter

85. Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm

Controversies

IX. Pediatric Surgery

Chapter

86. Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

Chapter

87. Intestinal Obstruction of Neonates and Infants

Chapter

88. Anorectal Malformation

Chapter

89. Tracheoesophageal Malformations

Chapter

90. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Chapter

91. Abdominal Tumors

Chapter

92. Congenital Cysts and Sinuses of the Neck

X. Transplantation

Chapter

93. Liver Transplantation

Chapter

94. Kidney Transplantation

Chapter

95. Heart Transplantation

Chapter

96. Mechanical Circulatory Support

Chapter

97. Lung Transplantation

Chapter

98. Penile and Scrotal Urologic Emergencies

Chapter

99. Urolithiasis

XI. Urology

Chapter

100. Renal Cancer

Chapter

101. Bladder Cancer

Chapter

102. Prostate Cancer

Chapter

103. Urodynamics and Voiding Dysfunction

Chapter

104. Pediatric Urology

XII. Healthcare

Chapter

105. Can Healthcare Be Reformed?

Chapter

106. Medical Ethics

Chapter

107. Professionalism

Chapter

108. Required Reading

Index