Contents list

PART ONE: PRINCIPLES

1. The metabolic response to injury
2. Shock and blood transfusion
3. Wounds, tissue repair and scars
4. Surgical infection
5. Surgery in the tropics
6. Principles of paediatric surgery
7. Principles of oncology
8. Surgical audit and research
9. Surgical ethics

PART TWO: INVESTIGATION AND DIAGNOSIS

10. Diagnostic imaging
11. Gastrointestinal endoscopy
12. Tissue diagnosis

PART THREE: PERIOPERATIVE CARE

13. Preoperative preparation
14. Anaesthesia and pain relief
15. Care in the operating room
16. Perioperative management of the high-risk surgical patient
17. Nutrition and fluid therapy
18. Basic surgical skills and anastomoses
19. Principles of laporoscopic and robotic surgery
20. Postoperative care

PART FOUR: TRAUMA

21. Introduction to trauma
22. Early assessment and management of trauma
23. Head injury
24. Neck and spine
25. Trauma to the face and mouth
26. Chest and abdomen
27. Extremity trauma
28. Burns
29. Plastic and reconstructive surgery
30. Disaster surgery

PART FIVE: ELECTIVE ORTHOPAEDICS

31. Clinical examination
32. Sports medicine and sports injuries
33. The spine
34. Upper limb - pathology, assessment and management
35. Hip and knee
36. Foot and ankle
37. Inflammation and infection and musculoskeletal tumours
38. Paediatric orthopaedics

PART SIX: SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE

39. Skin and subcutaneous tissue

PART SEVEN: HEAD & NECK

40. Elective neurosurgery
41. The eye and orbit
42. Cleft lip and palate: developmental abnormalities of the face, mouth and jaws
43. The nose and sinuses
44. The ear
45. Pharynx, larynx and neck
46. Oropharyngeal cancer
47. Disorders of the salivary glands

PART EIGHT: BREAST & ENDOCRINE

48. The thyroid and parathyroid glands
49. Adrenal glands and other endocrine disorders
50. The breast

PART NINE: CARDIOTHORACIC

51. Cardiac surgery
52. The thorax

PART TEN: VASCULAR

53. Arterial disorders
54. Venous disorders
55. Lymphatic disorders

PART ELEVEN: ABDOMINAL

56. History and examination of the abdomen
57. Hernias, umbilicus and abdominal wall
58. The peritoneum, omentum, mesentery and retroperitoneal space
59. The oesophagus
60. Stomach and duodenum
61. The liver
62. The spleen
63. The gall bladder and bile ducts
64. The pancreas
65. The small and large intestines
66. Intestinal obstruction
67. The vermiform appendix
68. The rectum
69. The anus and anal canal

PART TWELVE: GENITOURINARY

70. Urinary symptoms and investigations
71. The kidneys and ureters
72. The urinary bladder
73. The prostate and seminal vesicles
74. The urethra and penis
75. Testis and scrotum
76. Gynaecology

PART TEN: TRANSPLANTATION

77. Transplantation

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 Common instruments on the general tray