SECTION 1 - GENERAL ISSUES
1. Surgery -- what it is and what a surgeon does 2. Organisation of surgical
services including legal and ethical issues 3. Accident and emergency 4.
Investigation of the surgical patient 5. The operation 6. Anaesthesia and pain
control 7. Perioperative management and postoperative complications 8. Wound
healing and management 9. Surgical infection 10. The seriously ill and injured
patient 11. Practical procedures 12. Principles of surgical oncology 13. Organ
transplantation
SECTION 2 - REGIONAL SURGERY
14. The neck and upper aerodigestive tract 15. Ear and nose 16. Chest and lungs
17. Cardiac surgery 18. Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum 19. Liver and biliary
tree 20. The spleen 21. Surgical Aspects of pancreatic disease 22. Acute
abdominal conditions - surgical aspects 23. Small bowel and intestinal
obstruction 24. Large bowel including appendix 25. Anal and related disorders
26. Hernia 27. Breast disease 28. Arterial surgery 29. Venous and lymphatic
disorders
SECTION 3 - SURGICAL SPECIALTIES
30. Neurosurgery 31. Surgery of the endocrine glands 32. Urology 33. Principles
of orthopaedics 34. Principles of management of fractures, joint injuries and
peripheral nerve injuries 35. Principles of paediatric surgery 36.
Ophthalmology in clinical surgery 37. Principles of plastic surgery 38.
Surgical principles - skin disorders 39. Surgery in the tropics
Index