Basic Surgical Skills and Techniques (3rd Edition)

Description

This new edition provides surgeons and trainees with the latest advances in their field.
Beginning with an overview of basic preparation techniques, patient positioning, sutures, and an introduction to instrument handling, the following sections discuss many different surgical techniques.
Each chapter has been fully revised and the third edition features new topics including robotic surgery, lasers, endoscopy, and new surgical instruments and procedures.
Authored by an internationally recognised team of experts, the comprehensive text is further enhanced by more than 300 clinical photographs and diagrams.

Key Features

• Focuses on the basic art of surgery.
• Reflects not only the success of basic surgical skills and techniques but brings also the latest advances in surgery to the readers.
• Adds the information on robotic surgery, newer LASERs, instruments and common surgical operations along with revision of each and every chapter.
• Embraces the basic principles of surgery and explains the details in a lucid manner.
• Written by the authors who have been awarded globally for their academic excellence.
• Illustrated with lucid diagrams and studded with many surgical pearls.
• Useful for students studying the art and science of surgery everywhere.

Table of Contents

1. Scrubbing, Gowning and Gloving Techniques
2. Knot Tying Techniques
3. Wound Closure Techniques
4. Surgery of Common Skin Lesions under Local Anesthesia
5. Sutures in Surgery
6. Patient Positioning during Surgery
7. Anastomosis in Surgery
8. Art of Instrument Handling
9. Drains in Surgery
10. Minimal Access Surgery
11. Hemostasis
12. Biopsy Techniques
13. Dissection Techniques
14. Surgical Diathermy: Principles and Precautions
15. Dressing and Wound Care
16. Basics of Lasers in Surgery
17. Basic Surgical Procedures
18. General Surgical Instruments
19. Recent Developments in Energy Sources in Surgery
20. Principles of Robotic Surgery
21. Basic Endoscopy

Authors Biography

Sudhir Kumar Jain MS FRCS FACS FICS MBA

Professor, Department of Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India

David L Stoker MD FRCS

Consultant Surgeon, North Middlesex University Hospital, London; Professor, St George’s International Medical School, London, UK

Raman Tanwar MS MCh FMAS

Fellowship in Andrology and Men’s Health, Consultant Urologist and Andrologist, Urocentre, Jyoti Hospital and Paras Hospital, Gurugram, Haryana, India