The Eleventh Edition of Farquharson’s continues to provide both the fundamental surgical skills needed by junior trainee surgeons and the general surgical subspecialty knowledge necessary for higher surgical training. The topics cover the whole patient, with the concept that trainee surgeons need an overview and all surgeons need to occasionally operate outside of their area of expertise.
Although surgeons in training no longer anticipate that they will be expected to undertake unfamiliar operations without supervision, disease and injury do not respect specialty organ practice, especially in emergency surgery and trauma. With increasing specialisation, even experienced surgeons can sometimes be involved in a surgical emergency, or an intraoperative complication, requiring them to perform an operative procedure in a subspecialty other than their own. With this in mind, each of the specialist authors have focused their topic on principles for the general surgeon, and the editors have consolidated and adapted the information to bridge the gap between general and specialty surgery.
In many parts of the world, General Surgery has remained an all-encompassing surgical discipline, and in remote hospitals, General Surgeons may be the only surgical specialists. When transfer and referral options are unavailable, or delayed, these surgeons may have to offer a limited service in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, urology and obstetrics. For these reasons, some operations in other surgical disciplines are included, and here the emphasis is more on what might be achievable in difficult circumstances, rather than on a more sophisticated procedure, if this would be impractical outside a specialist centre.
This classic concise textbook will benefit all General Surgeons, whether already well established or just embarking on their career in surgery.
Table of Contents:
1. Basic Surgical Skills and Techniques
2. Surgical Instruments and Technology
3. Perioperative Care
4. Surgery of the Skin, Subcutaneous Tissue, Face and Jaws
5. Surgery of the Breast and Axilla
6. Surgical Access to The Abdomen and Abdominal Wall
7. General Techniques in Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Surgery
8. Operative Management of Benign Upper Gi Disease
9. Operative Management of Ugi Malignancy
10. Gallbladder And Biliary Surgery
11. Surgery of the Pancreas and Spleen
12. Surgery of the Liver
13. Emergency Small and Large Bowel Surgery and Surgery for Benign Disease
14. Operative Management of Small and Large Bowel Malignancy
15. Surgery of the Anus and Perineum
16. Surgery of the Groin and External Genitalia
17. Emergency Abdominal Surgery and Trauma
18. Vascular Surgical Techniques: Vascular Access and Trauma
19. Operative Management of Vascular Disease
20. Surgery of Bone - Basic considerations and concepts
21. Soft Tissue Surgery: Muscles, Tendons, Ligaments and Nerves
22. Cardiothoracic Surgery for the General Surgeon
23. Surgery of the Neck
24. Neurosurgical Procedures for General Surgeons
25. Urological Surgery for the General Surgeon
26. Gynaecology And Obstetrics for the General Surgeon
27. Paediatric Surgery for the General Surgeon
About the Author :
Brendan Moran MCh, FRCS (Gen Surg)
Consultant Surgeon
Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
Basingstoke, UK
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Southampton University
Southampton, UK
Rohin Mittal MS, DNB, FRCS (Eng)
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Christian Medical College
Vellore, India
Amy Lord, MBChB, PhD, FRCS (Eng)
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon
Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
Basingstoke, UK
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Imperial College London
London, UK
