Unofficial Guide to Surgery: Core Operations
Indications, Contraindications, Core Anatomy, Step-by-Step Guide, Complications and Follow Up
By (author) Katrina Mason, Gareth Rogers, Madelaine Gimzewska, Zeshan Qureshi
Publication date:
14 November 2019Publisher
Unofficial Guide to MedicineISBN-13: 9781910399293
The field of surgery has enchanted students for as long as it has existed, and today's medical students are no exception. Despite surgery being vital to our healthcare system, very few students are exposed to surgical teaching at a level of detail approaching that of their instruction in medicine or critical care. Th is textbook seeks to excise the mystery around the operating theatre and to equip students with a thorough understanding of the principles of common operations.
The Unofficial Guide to Surgery: Core Operations is a practical guide to common surgical operations, and it would be a useful resource for any medical or nursing student undertaking a rotation in surgery. Whether you're a surgeon-to-be at the cutting edge of your cohort and hoping to wow your senior colleagues, or a budding psychiatrist unexcited about standing in theatre for hours on end, this textbook has something for you. It is detailed enough to serve as a study resource for the Christina Yangs of tomorrow, but organised and concise so that even the least surgically inclined student can feel more prepared for their obligatory stint in theatre after reading through an operation report while changing into their scrubs.
The textbook features an introduction to the principles of surgery, followed by detailed operation reports for an extensive array of common procedures, organised in chapters based on speciality. Helpfully, each operation report includes the definition of the procedure being performed, its indications, high-quality illustrations of relevant anatomy, a step-by-step guide to the procedure at a level appropriate for students and junior doctors, and interesting trivia on the operation or associated condition. Students will be prepared for a niche question from even the most esoteric consultant!
Let’s get it straight. I enjoyed reading this book. Any medical student or surgical trainee will benefit from reading the relevant chapter before an attachment to one of these surgical specialties. While this book is aimed at those directly involved with surgical patients, it would do no harm if those involved less directly, in primary care and hospital services that support surgery, could find the time to understand the basics of surgical interventions and appreciate the complexity of even the most straightforward of procedures. --Professor Derek Alderson MD FRCS. President. Royal College of Surgeons of England.
This text is an eye-opener to my generation. Young students and trainees have got together and produced an excellent core guide to surgery with key operations in each discipline described and illustrated. I predict a very wide audience not just amongst doctors but also nursing professionals and operative department assistants and I think soon a few copies will be found in every theatre in the land, Excellent! Buy it and keep it close is my advice. --Professor Simon Kay OBE FRCS. Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Lead for Hand Transplantation UK.
Whether you’re a surgeon to be at the cutting edge of your cohort and hoping to wow your senior colleagues, or a budding psychiatrist unexcited about standing in theatre for hours on end, this textbook has something for you. --Imogen Thomson. Final Year Medical Student. University of Sydney.
Each operation report includes the definition of the procedure being performed, its indications, high-quality illustrations of relevant anatomy, a step-by-step guide to the procedure at a level appropriate for students and junior doctors, and interesting trivia on the operation or associated condition.” -- Stella Harris. Final Year Medical Student. University of Sydney
This is the ideal book for both final year medical students and junior doctors who find themselves in the unknown (and often frightening) environment of surgical operating theatres. Understanding the underlying principles behind all the techniques and procedures which they will come across, will hopefully help their overall understanding and even encourage them to follow a career in surgery – surely one of the most rewarding of all!”-- Simon Patterson-Brown. Consultant General and Upper GI Surgeon, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh.
The book provides a great overview of common surgeries across a range of specialties. Plenty of diagrams, simple, straightforward language and a clear layout make the book very approachable, while still providing detail. It’s the perfect book to read before attending a surgery for the first time, as a quick reminder before assisting, and when managing surgical patients. --Alexander Jackson BMedSci (Hons) MBChB. Anaesthetics Registrar, University Hospital Southampton.
This wonderful new book will be enormously useful to all undergraduates in Surgery. It has been produced in collaboration with students which has ensured that their need to demystify surgical procedures has been at the heart of the development. --Miss Philippa Tostevin. Reader in Surgical Education and Head of the Centre of Clinical Education. St. George’s University of London
The Unofficial Guide to Surgery targets the millennial medical student. It aims to find the narrow space between too much and too little information. It succeeds greatly. I would be delighted to see a student come to theatre with this book. --Dermot Burke FRCS. Associate Professor in Surgery. Leeds Teaching Hospitals.