Ellis and Calne's Lecture Notes in General Surgery

Ellis and Calne¿s Lecture Notes in General Surgery is a comprehensive guide that focuses on the fundamentals of general surgery while systematically covering all the clinical surgical problems that a student or doctor in training may encounter and about which they need to know.

The text includes principles of treatment that have been written at a level to inform the medical student and doctor in training. The text features color illustrations throughout and includes electronic access to a wide range of extra material including case studies, radiological and clinical images, and biographies.

Sample topics discussed in Ellis and Calne¿s Lecture Notes in General Surgery include:

• Surgical strategy, human factors in surgery, fluid and nutrition management, preoperative assessment, postoperative complications, acute infections, tumours, and shock
• Trauma surgery, burns, the skin and its adnexae, arterial disease, the heart and thoracic aorta, an