Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles & Practice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451112661 ISBN 13: 9781451112665

Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2010

Synopsis

Revised, updated, and enhanced from cover to cover, the Sixth Edition of Greenfield’s Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice remains the gold standard text in the field of surgery. It reflects surgery’s rapid changes, new technologies, and innovative techniques, integrating new scientific knowledge with evolving changes in surgical care. Updates to this edition include new editors and contributors, and a greatly enhanced visual presentation. Balancing scientific advances with clinical practice, Greenfield’s Surgery is an invaluable resource for today’s residents and practicing surgeons.

Key Features:

• Features enhanced, full-color illustrations, clinical photographs, key teaching points, and decision-making algorithms for quick reference to key information.
• Covers general scientific principles such as inflammation, shock, nutrition, pain management, and much more, followed by surgical practice chapters arranged by organ system.
• Introduces two new editors, Hasan Alam, MD and Timothy Pawlik, MD, who bring a fresh perspective and vision to this classic reference.
• Showcases the scientific and clinical expertise of more than 200 contributing authors, each an active practitioner in the field of surgery.
• Contains many unique and practical chapters, including recent advances in patient safety and fetal surgery.
• Need to mention somewhere that there are 2 new chapters on Obesity and Preoperative Risk Assessment,
• Presents Trauma and Transplantation information in separate sections, with focused chapters devoted to each.
• eBook version features over 40 "Morbidity and Mortality" case discussions. 

Now with the print edition, enjoy the bundled interactive eBook edition, which can be downloaded to your tablet and smartphone or accessed online and includes features like:

• Complete content with enhanced navigation
• Powerful search tools and smart navigation cross-links that pull results from content in the book, your notes, and even the web
• Cross-linked pages, references, and more for easy navigation
• Highlighting tool for easier reference of key content throughout the text
• Ability to take and share notes with friends and colleagues

About this title

Review

"This update of Greenfield's Surgery maintains the excellent production standards of previous editions...Greenfield's Surgery, which features an online image bank and search engine, remains the leader in its class."
"Doody's Enterprises, Inc. book review February 2011"

Edition details

• Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1451112661
• ISBN 13: 9781451112665
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 2112
• Editor: Mulholland M.D. PhD Michael W., Lillemoe Keith D., Doherty Gerard M., Maier MD Ronald V., Simeone Diane M., Upchurch Jr. MD Gilbert R.