Current Surgical Therapy

The 14th edition of Current Surgical Therapy is a comprehensive resource for general surgery, covering treatment and management options with a concise, highly formatted approach. It includes updated information, eight new surgical videos, and over 2,000 illustrations. The eBook version offers additional features and allows access to all content on various devices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 1552 pages
Publication date: 22 February 2023
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

An indispensable tool for written, oral, and recertifying board study, as well as a valuable resource for everyday clinical practice, the 14th Edition of Current Surgical Therapy offers trusted and authoritative guidance on the most effective treatment and management options for general surgery. Residents and practitioners alike value the concise and highly formatted approach to each topic, as well as the practical and hands-on advice on selecting and implementing current surgical approaches from the foremost general surgeons of today. This esteemed text remains the sole surgical reference of its kind, offering a comprehensive array of topics and delivering only the most essential facts.

Covers virtually every problem that a general surgeon may encounter, synthesizing vast amounts of information into concise and digestible chapters. Provides thoroughly updated information throughout, with focused revisions to the most in-demand topics. Presents each topic using the same easy-to-follow format: disease presentation, pathophysiology, diagnostics, and surgical therapy.

Includes eight all-new surgical videos covering enteral stents in the treatment of colonic obstruction; multiple management approaches to spigelian, obturator, and lumbar hernias; spontaneous and secondary pneumothorax, and acute mesenteric ischemia. Features more than 2,000 illustrations—line drawings, graphs, algorithms, clinical/operative photographs, micrographs, and radiological images—including hundreds new to this edition. Integrates minimally invasive surgical techniques, basic science, and critical care aspects of surgical practice throughout. Discusses which approach to take, how to avoid or minimize complications, and what outcomes to expect. Provides a quick and efficient review prior to surgery and when preparing for surgical boards and ABSITEs.

Weight: 3620g
Dimension: 276 x 216 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780323796835
Edition number: 14 ed