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Complications in Surgery
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Edition:
- 2nd Ed.
- Author:
- Mulholland, Michael W.; Doherty, Gerard M.
- Publisher:
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60-547530-1
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 71
- Doody Core Title Score:
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Offers authoritative recommendations for preventing and managing complications in all current general surgery procedures.
The opening sections discuss institutional risk management issues and risks common to all operations, such as wound healing problems, infection, shock, and complications in immunosuppressed patients. Subsequent sections focus on complications of specific procedures in thoracic, vascular, gastric, endocrine, breast, and oncologic surgery, as well as organ transplantation and pediatric surgery. This edition includes new information on surgical quality assessment and patient safety and updated information in the organ-specific chapters.
The opening sections discuss institutional risk management issues and risks common to all operations, such as wound healing problems, infection, shock, and complications in immunosuppressed patients. Subsequent sections focus on complications of specific procedures in thoracic, vascular, gastric, endocrine, breast, and oncologic surgery, as well as organ transplantation and pediatric surgery. This edition includes new information on surgical quality assessment and patient safety and updated information in the organ-specific chapters.
- NEW: Improved art program, including better-quality diagnostic imaging
- NEW: Increased emphasis on perioperative cardiac risk
- NEW CHAPTER: Adult Learning
- NEW CHAPTER: Patient Safety in the OR
- NEW information on quality assessment in surgery
- Comprehensive
- Edited and written by authorities, including many from the renowned programs at University of Michigan and Washington University
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- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Mulholland, Michael W.; Doherty, Gerard M.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60-547530-1
- Specialty:
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- Surgery
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 2nd Ed.
- Pages:
- 884
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Doody's Star Rating®:
- Score:
- 71
- Doody Core Title Score:
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