MRCS Part A: Essential Revision Notes: Book 1

1628 Pages·2012·11.99 MB·English

by  Catherine Parchment-Smith

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Picture Permissions
Contributors
Introduction

Chapter 1 Perioperative care
Tristan E McMillan
Chapter 2 Surgical technique and technology
David Mansouri
Chapter 3 Postoperative management and critical care
Hayley M Moore and Brahman Dharmarajah
Chapter 4 Infection and inflammation
Claire Ritchie Chalmers
Chapter 5 Principles of surgical oncology
Sylvia Brown
Chapter 6Trauma
Part 1: head, abdomen and trunk
George Hondag Tse