Take Charge! General Surgery and Urology

Book Description:

As a junior doctor starting a surgery or urology rotation, you are expected to take charge of referrals from - and give specialist advice to - A&E, GPs and other specialties. Often you will have had very limited surgical experience and only an off-site registrar for support. This pocket-sized book provides a quick, reliable reference guide for the initial management of the common surgical referrals, with guidance as to what complaints require admission and which can be sent home for outpatient or GP follow-up. It will  help relieve the stressful experience of being on-call, alleviating some of the anxiety and making shifts more bearable.

Table of Contents:

Preface

Abbreviations

Contributors

PART I. ABDOMINAL EXAMINATION

1. Abdominal examination and surgical scars

Jason Hol-Ming Wong

2. Stomas

Ian Robertson

PART II. GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) TRACT

3. Lower gastrointestinal bleeding

Elizabeth Yang

4. Bowel obstruction

Bibek Das

5. Acute diverticulitis

Christopher F. Brewer, Alexander E. J. Trevatt and Richard Boulton

6. Management of colorectal cancer

Oliver J. Smith

7. Perianal disease

Prashant Singh

8. Upper gastrointestinal emergencies

Suroosh Madanipour

9. Acute appendicitis

Amelia Davidson

10. Hernias

Jason Hol-Ming Wong

11. Bowel perforation

Tom Pampiglione

12. Acute mesenteric ischaemia

Urpinder S. Grewal

PART III. ABDOMINAL VISCERA

13. Gallstone disease

Amelia Davidson

14. Acute pancreatitis

Robert Adams and Christopher Limb

15. Hepatobiliary and pancreatic emergencies

Thomas Clifford

16. Endocrine surgery

Ross M. Warner and Richard Boulton

17. Vascular emergencies

Stevan Jordan

PART IV. POST-OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS

18. Wound infections and dehiscence

Deniz Hassan

19. Management of an anastomotic leak

Ross M. Warner

PART V. TRAUMA

20. Trauma principles

Stevan Jordan

21. Burns

Stevan Jordan

22. Head injuries

Humza T. Osmani

PART VI. SKIN VII

23. Necrotising fasciitis and Fournier’s gangrene

Alexander Martin

24. Breast lump assessment

Jason Hol-Ming Wong

PART VII. UROLOGICAL DISORDERS

25. Testicular lumps

Davoud Khodatars and Sarah Y. W. Tang

26. Genitourinary malignancies

Davoud Khodatars and Sarah Y. W. Tang

27. Urinary calculus disease

Christopher Bastianpillai

28. Catheter management

Tom Bracewell, Thomas Maggs, David Manson-Bahr, and Sarah Y. W. Tang

29. Benign prostatic hyperplasia

Sarah Y. W. Tang

30. Haematuria

Christopher Bastianpillai

31. Urinary retention

Christopher Bastianpillai

32. Testicular torsion

Amelia Davidson

33. Obstructive uropathy

Rohit Srinivasan

Index