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1 online resource (ix, 154 pages) : bill |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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One digital video disc inside front cover. |
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Includes index. |
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Some online versions lack accompanying media packaged with the printed version. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Preparing yourself; Responsibilities as part of the surgical team; Responsibilities as a trainee; Key points; Chapter 2 Conducting yourself; Theatre etiquette; Assisting; Operating; Haste versus speed; After the operation; Key points; Chapter 3 Before you start; The consent process; Preparing the patient; Scrubbing up; Prepping and draping; Using local anaesthetic; Chapter 4 Making incisions; Planning the incision; Using the scalpel; Using the diathermy; Re-opening an old wound; Key points; Pitfalls; Chapter 5 Retracting; The hand as a retractor. |
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Instruments for retractionPitfalls; Chapter 6 Separating tissues; Blunt dissection; Sharp dissection; Key points; Pitfalls; Chapter 7 Knots; Instrument or hand tie?; Anatomy of a knot; Hand tying on the flat; Instrument tying on the flat; Hand ties in a cavity; Tying around artery forceps; Key points; Pitfalls; Chapter 8 Haemostasis; Anticipation and prevention; Control of haemorrhage; Clearing blood from the operative field; Key points; Pitfalls; Chapter 9 Approximating tissues; Adhesive tape dressings; Tissue glues; Suturing; Stapling; Pitfalls; Chapter 10 Manoeuvres in laparoscopic surgery. |
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EquipmentSetting up; Instruments; Creating the pneumoperitoneum; Inserting subsequent trocars; Holding the camera; Operating; Key points; Pitfalls; Chapter 11 Drains and dressings; Drains; Post-operative dressings; Pitfalls; Chapter 12 Putting it all together; Excision of skin lesion (recurrent sebaceous cyst); Inguinal hernia repair; Open appendicectomy; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Opening and closing the abdomen (midline incision). |
| Summary |
Technical expertise in the operating theatre remains a hallmark of surgical practice. Theatre etiquette and instrument handling skills are highly specific to the specialty of surgery, and trainees need to quickly become familiar with them. This book introduces operative technique in an original way. It first discusses the roles and responsibilities of the surgical trainee and explains some the unwritten rules of behaviour in the operating theatre. It then brings a unique approach to teaching operative surgery by describing operations as a series of generic manoeuvres which, when mastered and pu. |
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Surgery, Operative.
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Surgical Procedures, Operative |
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Chirurgie opératoire.
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MEDICAL -- Prosthesis.
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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Surgery, Operative
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| Added Author |
Lee, David.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tulloh, Bruce. Foundations of operative surgery. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199228669 (OCoLC)316618319 |
| ISBN |
9780191575204 (electronic bk.) |
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0191575208 (electronic bk.) |
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1283580586 |
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9781283580588 |
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9780199228669 |
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0199228663 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000051582133 |
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DEBBG BV043168939 |
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DEBSZ 421395176 |
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GBVCP 804041768 |
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NZ1 14693644 |
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