Now in its Third Edition, this reference work focuses on the
physiologic mechanisms important to the practice of surgery. It
smoothly integrates chapters that are contributed by high
profile educators, all experts in their fields, who assist in
preparing surgical residency curricula. Easy to read, organized
and well illustrated, the clinical information contained therein
is used only to illustrate the application of basic science as
it relates to practice. A new topic to this edition is
physiologic changes associated with aging. Eight additional
major revisions to this edition include shock, nutrition,
oncology, pulmonary, digestive, hematology, orthopaedics, and
anesthesia.