Bailey & Love's Short Practice Of Surgery (25th Edition)

Name: Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery
Edition: 25th
Edited by: Norman S. Williams; Christopher J.K. Bulstrode; P. RONAN O’CONNELL
Subject: Surgery
Language: English
Publisher: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd

Brief Introduction

This is the 25th and hence Silver Jubilee edition of this world famous textbook-Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery. It has stood the test of time as evidenced by increasing sales, edition by edition, a tribute to the foresight of the original authors Hamilton Bailey and McNeill Love. Both set out to produce a high quality, comprehensive textbook to be enjoyed by both undergraduates and postgraduates. Part of their magic formula was to combine clear and concise text with numerous clinical photographs collected from their own archives. Most important was the frequent use of anecdote and aphorism to highlight points of clinical relevance, further enhanced by autobiographical notes beloved by all devotees of the book. We, the editors of this auspicious edition, therefore feel a particular responsibility following in the footsteps of the original authors and our colleague editors who continued this tradition over past editions.

It is always difficult to blend the old with the new but this we have attempted to do. We present to the reader a comprehensive, modern surgical textbook which, we hope, retains the feel of the original. We have ensured that the text is liberally illustrated with high quality reproductions and line drawings. Some of Bailey and Love’s original illustrations have been retained because they capture specific points so well that we have felt obliged to keep them. Similarly the autobiographical notes remain but have been updated. We have been particularly fortunate in this endeavour in retaining the services of Dr J.G. Fairer who, as a labour of love, has spent many hours ensuring the veracity of these notes. To help the budding young surgeon faced with that heart-sinking question from their boss, ‘What instrument is that in your hand?’ followed by ‘And who was he?’, we have started a new page in the appendix which gives answers to a few of the most common queries. Let us know if you think it is useful.

PART 1: Principles

The metabolic response to injury
Shock and blood transfusion
Wounds, tissue repair and scars
Surgical infection
Surgery in the tropics
Principles of paediatric surgery
Principles of oncology
Surgical audit and research
Surgical ethics

PART 2: Investigation and diagnosis

Diagnostic imaging
Gastrointestinal endoscopy
Tissue diagnosis

PART 3: Perioperative care

Preoperative preparation
Anaesthesia and pain relief
Care in the operating room
Perioperative management of the high-risk surgical patient
Nutrition and fluid therapy
Basic surgical skills and anastomoses
Principles of laparoscopic and robotic surgery
Postoperative care

PART 4: Trauma

Introduction to trauma
Early assessment and management of trauma
Head injury
Neck and spine
Trauma to the face and mouth
Chest and abdomen
Extremity trauma
Burns
Plastic and reconstructive surgery
Disaster surgery

PART 5: Elective orthopaedics

Clinical examination
Sports medicine and sports injuries
The spine
Upper limb – pathology, assessment and management
Hip and knee
Foot and ankle
Inflammation and infection and musculoskeletal tumours
Paediatric orthopaedics

PART 6: Skin and subcutaneous tissue

Skin and subcutaneous tissue

PART 7: Head and neck

Elective neurosurgery
The eye and orbit
Cleft lip and palate: developmental abnormalities of the face, mouth and jaws
The nose and sinuses
The ear
Pharynx, larynx and neck
Oropharyngeal cancer
Disorders of the salivary glands

PART 8: Breast and endocrine

The thyroid and parathyroid glands
Adrenal glands and other endocrine disorders
The breast

PART 9: Cardiothoracic

Cardiac surgery
The thorax

PART 10: Vascular

Arterial disorders
Venous disorders
Lymphatic disorders

PART 11: Abdominal

History and examination of the abdomen
Hernias, umbilicus and abdominal wall
The peritoneum, omentum, mesentery and retroperitoneal space
The oesophagus
Stomach and duodenum
The liver
The spleen
The gall bladder and bile ducts
The pancreas
The small and large intestines
Intestinal obstruction
The vermiform appendix
The rectum
The anus and anal canal

PART 12: Genitourinary

Urinary symptoms and investigations
The kidneys and ureters
The urinary bladder
The prostate and seminal vesicles
Urethra and penis
Testis and scrotum
Gynaecology

PART 13: Transplantation

Transplantation

Appendix 1:
Common instruments on the general tray

Index

Excerpts

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Surgical infection, particularly surgical site infection (SSI), has always been a major complication of surgery and trauma and has been documented for 4000–5000 years. The Egyptians had some concepts about infection as they were able to prevent putrefaction, testified by mummification skills. Their medical papyruses also describe the use of salves and antiseptics to prevent SSIs. This ‘prophylaxis’ had also been known earlier by the Assyrians, although less well documented. It was described again independently by the Greeks. The Hippocratic teachings described the use of anti-microbials, such as wine and vinegar, which were widely used to irrigate open, infected wounds before delayed primary or secondary wound closure. A belief common to all these civilisations, and indeed even later to the Romans, was that, whenever pus localised in an infected wound, it needed to be drained.
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