Dr. Pestana's surgery notes
Subtitle: top 180 vignettes for the surgical wards
By: Carlos Pestana, MD, PhD
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Kaplan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781625231123
Subjects: Examinations, questions; Surgery; Study guides; Examinations; Medicine; Physicians; Licenses; Operative Surgical Procedures; Clinical Medicine; National Board of Medical Examiners
Other titles: Surgery notes
Notes: "Kaplan medical"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Trauma; title: Initial Survey (the ABCs); title: Airway; title: Breathing; title: Shock; title: A Review from Head to Toe; title: Head Trauma; title: Neck Trauma; title: Spinal Cord Injuries; title: Chest Trauma; title: Abdominal Trauma; title: Pelvic Fractures; title: Urologic Injuries; title: The Extremities; title: Burns; title: Bites and Stings; title: ch. 2 Orthopedics; title: Disorders in Children; title: Disorders of the Hip; title: Other Locations; title: Fractures; title: Tumors; title: Children and Young Adults; title: Adults; title: General Orthopedics; title: Common Adult Orthopedic Injuries; title: Orthopedic Emergencies; title: Common Hand Problems; title: Back Pain; title: Leg Ulcers; title: Foot Pain; title: ch. 3 Pre-Op and Post-Op Care; title: Preoperative Assessment; title: Cardiac Risk; title: Pulmonary Risk; title: Hepatic Risk; title: Nutritional Risk; title: Metabolic Risk; title: Postoperative Complications; title: Fever; title: Chest Pain; title: Other Pulmonary Complications; title: Disorientation/Coma; title: Urinary Complications; title: Abdominal Distention; title: Is It Small Bowel or Colon?; title: What Are Air-Fluid Levels?; title: Wound; title: Fluids and Electrolytes; title: Radiology for the Surgical Consumer; title: ch. 4 General Surgery; title: Diseases of the Gastrointestinal System; title: The Upper Gastrointestinal System; title: The Mid and Lower Gastrointestinal System; title: Gastrointestinal Bleeding; title: The Acute Abdomen; title: Hepatobiliary; title: ERCP or MRCP?; title: The Pancreas; title: Hernias; title: A Primer of Surgical Oncology; title: Diseases of the Breast; title: Breast Cancer: An Example of Evolving Knowledge; title: Diseases of the Endocrine System; title: Surgical Hypertension; title: Decoding the Operative Note: The Names of Operations; title: ch. 5 Pediatric Surgery; title: Birth Through the First 24 Hours; title: A Few Days Old Through the First Two Months of Life; title: Later in Infancy; title: ch. 6 Cardiothoracic Surgery; title: Congenital Heart Problems; title: Acquired Heart Disease; title: The Lung; title: ch. 7 Vascular Surgery; title: The Riddle of Biopsies: FNA Versus Core, Incisional Versus Excisional; title: ch. 8 Skin Surgery; title: ch. 9 Ophthalmology; title: Children; title: Adults; title: ch. 10 Otolaryngology (ENT); title: Neck Masses; title: Congenital; title: Inflammatory Versus Neoplastic; title: Other Tumors; title: Pediatric ENT; title: ENT Emergencies and Miscellaneous; title: ch. 11 Neurosurgery; title: Differential Diagnosis Based on Patient History; title: Vascular Occlusive Disease; title: Intracranial Bleeding; title: Brain Tumors; title: Pain Syndromes; title: ch. 12 Urology; title: Urologic Emergencies; title: Congenital Urologic Disease; title: Tumors; title: Retention and Incontinence; title: Stones; title: Miscellaneous; title: Diagnosing Nocturnal Erections with Postage Stamps: A Generation Gap; title: ch. 13 Organ Transplantation; title: Questions