ABSTRACT
The 28th edition of Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery is the leading surgical resource for medical students and surgeons in training. It encompasses the basic principles of careful history taking, observation, deductive reasoning, technical knowledge and post-operative patient care to ensure safe surgical practice.
Key features
- Relevant - the content matches both undergraduate and post-graduate curriculae
- Readable – features summary boxes of core knowledge throughout the text. The consistent layout and style of tables, graphics, and diagrams aids easy understanding of key concepts. Also includes algorithms to assist the reader in understanding patient care pathways
- Current- highlights where major developments in surgical practice have occurred or are likely to transform surgical practice in the next decade
- Contemporary – includes expanded coverage of paediatric surgery and of transplant surgery. Emphasizes the importance of the multidisciplinary team approach, together with patient engagement in difficult decision making
- Authoritative – every chapter has been revised by expert authors, and the most up to date content has been included in a familiar format
- Digital Resources – Readers can access extra content via the dedicated Bailey and Love website which includes Questions and Answers, Expanded Content, Videos, Author interviews and more
Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery 28th edition continues to provide the essential knowledge required for surgical training. It remains a familiar friend, venerated by generations of medical students as well as surgeons young and old as a rite of passage and a repository of the core learning needed for clinical practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part 1|253 pages
Basic principles
chapter Chapter 1|10 pages
Metabolic response to injury
chapter Chapter 2|13 pages
Shock, haemorrhage and transfusion
chapter Chapter 3|14 pages
Wound healing and tissue repair
chapter Chapter 4|12 pages
Tissue engineering and regenerative therapies
chapter Chapter 5|16 pages
Surgical infection
chapter Chapter 6|28 pages
Tropical infections and infestations
chapter Chapter 7|23 pages
Basic surgical skills
chapter Chapter 8|26 pages
Diagnostic imaging
chapter Chapter 9|19 pages
Gastrointestinal endoscopy
chapter Chapter 10|15 pages
Principles of minimal access surgery
chapter Chapter 11|21 pages
Tissue and molecular diagnosis
chapter Chapter 12|20 pages
Principles of oncology
chapter Chapter 13|9 pages
Surgical audit and research
chapter Chapter 14|9 pages
Ethics and law in surgical practice
chapter Chapter 15|14 pages
Human factors, patient safety and quality improvement
chapter Chapter 16|4 pages
Global health and surgery
part Part 2|31 pages
General paediatrics
chapter Chapter 17|9 pages
Paediatric surgery
chapter Chapter 18|10 pages
Neonatal surgery
chapter Chapter 19|5 pages
Trauma in children
chapter Chapter 20|7 pages
Paediatric urology
part Part 3|57 pages
Perioperative care
chapter Chapter 21|14 pages
Preoperative care including the high-risk surgical patient
chapter Chapter 22|5 pages
Day case surgery
chapter Chapter 23|11 pages
Anaesthesia and pain relief
chapter Chapter 24|14 pages
Postoperative care including perioperative optimisation
chapter Chapter 25|13 pages
Nutrition and fluid therapy
part Part 4|130 pages
Trauma
chapter Chapter 26|12 pages
Introduction to trauma
chapter Chapter 27|6 pages
Early assessment and management of severe trauma
chapter Chapter 28|11 pages
Traumatic brain injury
chapter Chapter 29|17 pages
Torso and pelvic trauma
chapter Chapter 30|17 pages
The neck and spine
chapter Chapter 31|11 pages
Maxillofacial trauma
chapter Chapter 32|30 pages
Extremity trauma
chapter Chapter 33|15 pages
Disaster surgery
chapter Chapter 34|11 pages
Conflict surgery
part Part 5|167 pages
Elective orthopaedics
chapter Chapter 35|28 pages
History taking and clinical examination in musculoskeletal disease
chapter Chapter 36|8 pages
Sports medicine and sports injuries
chapter Chapter 37|18 pages
The spine
chapter Chapter 38|24 pages
The upper limb
chapter Chapter 39|12 pages
The hip
chapter Chapter 40|6 pages
The Knee
chapter Chapter 41|11 pages
The foot and ankle
chapter Chapter 42|16 pages
Musculoskeletal tumours
chapter Chapter 43|14 pages
Infection of the bones and joints
chapter Chapter 44|30 pages
Paediatric orthopaedics
part Part 6|63 pages
Skin, plastic and reconstructive
chapter Chapter 45|25 pages
Skin and subcutaneous tissue
chapter Chapter 46|17 pages
Burns
chapter Chapter 47|21 pages
Plastic and reconstructive surgery
part Part 7|148 pages
Head and neck
chapter Chapter 48|22 pages
Cranial neurosurgery
chapter Chapter 49|14 pages
The eye and orbit
chapter Chapter 50|12 pages
Developmental abnormalities of the face, mouth and jaws: cleft lip and palate
chapter Chapter 51|24 pages
The ear, nose and sinuses
chapter Chapter 52|39 pages
The pharynx, larynx and neck
chapter Chapter 53|18 pages
Oral cavity cancer
chapter Chapter 54|19 pages
Disorders of the salivary glands
part Part 8|94 pages
Endocrine and breast
chapter Chapter 55|23 pages
The thyroid gland
chapter Chapter 56|15 pages
The parathyroid glands
chapter Chapter 57|26 pages
The adrenal glands and other abdominal endocrine disorder
chapter Chapter 58|30 pages
The breast
part Part 9|53 pages
Cardiothoracic
chapter Chapter 59|30 pages
Cardiac surgery
chapter Chapter 60|23 pages
The thorax
part Part 10|54 pages
Vascular
chapter Chapter 61|28 pages
Arterial disorders
chapter Chapter 62|26 pages
Venous Disorder
part Part 11|396 pages
Abdominal
chapter Chapter 63|7 pages
History and examination of the abdomen
chapter Chapter 64|25 pages
The abdominal wall, hernia and umbilicus
chapter Chapter 65|23 pages
The peritoneum, mesentery, greater omentum and retroperitoneal space
chapter Chapter 66|42 pages
The oesophagus
chapter Chapter 67|34 pages
The stomach and duodenum
chapter Chapter 68|9 pages
Bariatric and metabolic surgery
chapter Chapter 69|28 pages
The liver
chapter Chapter 70|13 pages
The spleen
chapter Chapter 71|28 pages
The gallbladder and bile ducts
chapter Chapter 72|28 pages
The pancreas
chapter Chapter 73|18 pages
Functional disorders of the intestine
chapter Chapter 74|12 pages
The small intestine
chapter Chapter 75|17 pages
Inflammatory bowel disease
chapter Chapter 76|19 pages
The vermiform appendix
chapter Chapter 77|21 pages
The large intestine
chapter Chapter 78|18 pages
Intestinal obstruction
chapter Chapter 79|24 pages
The rectum
chapter Chapter 80|30 pages
The anus and anal canal
part Part 12|148 pages
Genitourinary
chapter Chapter 81|19 pages
Urinary symptoms and investigations
chapter Chapter 82|20 pages
The kidney and ureter
chapter Chapter 83|36 pages
The urinary bladder
chapter Chapter 84|16 pages
The prostate and seminal vesicles
chapter Chapter 85|20 pages
The urethra and penis
chapter Chapter 86|17 pages
The testis and scrotum
chapter Chapter 87|20 pages
Gynaecology
part Part 13|52 pages
Transplantation