Farquharson's Textbook of Operative General Surgery

Brendan Moran, Rohin Mittal, Amy Lord

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040418994
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

The Eleventh Edition of Farquharson's continues to provide both the fundamental surgical skills needed by junior trainee surgeons and the general surgical subspecialty knowledge necessary for higher surgical training. The topics cover the whole patient, with the concept that trainee surgeons need an overview and all surgeons need to occasionally operate outside of their area of expertise.

Although surgeons in training no longer anticipate that they will be expected to undertake unfamiliar operations without supervision, disease and injury do not respect specialty organ practice, especially in emergency surgery and trauma. With increasing specialisation, even experienced surgeons can sometimes be involved in a surgical emergency, or an intraoperative complication, requiring them to perform an operative procedure in a subspecialty other than their own. With this in mind, each of the specialist authors have focused their topic on principles for the general surgeon, and the editors have consolidated and adapted the information to bridge the gap between general and specialty surgery.

In many parts of the world, General Surgery has remained an all-encompassing surgical discipline, and in remote hospitals, General Surgeons may be the only surgical specialists. When transfer and referral options are unavailable, or delayed, these surgeons may have to offer a limited service in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, urology and obstetrics. For these reasons, some operations in other surgical disciplines are included, and here the emphasis is more on what might be achievable in difficult circumstances, rather than on a more sophisticated procedure, if this would be impractical outside a specialist centre.

This classic concise textbook will benefit all General Surgeons, whether already well established or just embarking on their career in surgery.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Video List
• Preface to the Eleventh Edition
• About the Editors
• Contributors and Acknowledgements
• 1 Basic surgical skills and techniques
• 2 Surgical instruments and technology
• 3 Perioperative care
• 4A Surgery of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
• 4B Surgery of the face and jaws
• 5 Surgery of the breast and axilla
• 6 Surgical access to the abdomen and abdominal wall
• 7 General techniques in abdominal and gastrointestinal surgery
• 8 Operative management of benign upper gastrointestinal disease
• 9 Operative management of upper gastrointestinal malignancy
• 10 Gallbladder and biliary surgery
• 11 Surgery of the pancreas and spleen
• 12 Surery of the liver
• 13 Emergency small and large bowel surgery and surgery for benign disease
• 14 Operative management of small and large bowel malignancy
• 15 Surgery of the anus and perineum
• 16 Surgery of the groin
• 17 Emergency abdominal surgery and trauma
• 18 Vascular surgical techniques: Vascular access and trauma
• 19 Operative management of vascular disease for the general surgeon
• 20 Surgery of bone: Basic considerations and concepts
• 21 Soft tissue surgery: Muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves
• 22 Cardiothoracic surgery for the general surgeon
• 23 Surgery of the neck
• 24 Neurosurgical procedures for general surgeons
• 25 Urological surgery for the general surgeon
• 26 Gynaecology and obstetrics for the general surgeon
• 27 Paediatric surgery for the general surgeon
• Index