Fundamentals of Surgical Therapy: Evidence-Based Operative Principles, Perioperative Care, and Surgical Decision-Making - Softcover

Whitfield, James A.; Caldwell, Robert T.; Fletcher, Sandra M.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798188351670

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

When every surgical choice carries consequences, you need more than memorized facts. You need a reliable framework for evaluating evidence, controlling risk, and acting with precision.
Fundamentals of Surgical Therapy gives you a structured, evidence-informed foundation across the full surgical pathway. Through 20 comprehensive chapters, you move from research appraisal, applied anatomy, wound healing, hemostasis, and preoperative assessment to anesthesia, postoperative management, infection, minimally invasive methods, vascular control, gastrointestinal reconstruction, trauma, oncology, endocrine operations, ethics, and quality improvement.
Rather than presenting technique as a collection of disconnected steps, the text helps you understand why an intervention is indicated, how patient physiology changes operative risk, and when evidence, anatomy, or clinical circumstances should alter the plan. You also gain a unified view of perioperative medicine, technical execution, complication prevention, and patient safety, allowing you to connect decisions made before incision with consequences that emerge during recovery.
Inside this comprehensive reference, you will learn to:

• Master the appraisal of randomized trials, guidelines, bias, and statistical claims so you can distinguish reliable evidence from habit or tradition.
• Apply anatomical planes and tissue-handling concepts to safer exposure, dissection, hemostasis, anastomosis, closure, and abdominal wall reconstruction.
• Strengthen preoperative planning with structured risk assessment, physiological optimization, anticoagulant management, fluid strategy, nutrition, anesthetic awareness, and informed consent.
• Recognize postoperative deterioration, infection, sepsis, bleeding, wound failure, and other major complications before preventable harm escalates.
• Navigate laparoscopic, robotic, trauma, oncological, endocrine, gastrointestinal, and emergency scenarios using disciplined reasoning instead of isolated memorization.
• Build a patient-centered practice by integrating shared choices, professional ethics, audit, safety systems, and measurable outcome improvement.
• Review complex material efficiently through numbered learning objectives, focused subchapters, illustrated clinical examples, and end-of-chapter key points.

If you are preparing for a surgical clerkship, residency, examinations, operative discussions, or daily clinical practice, this reference helps you connect science, technique, and judgment. Build the foundation that safer surgical decisions require and add this comprehensive resource to your professional library today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798188351670
• Binding: Tapa blanda
• Number of pages: 577