Clinical Surgery Made Easy: A companion to problem-based learningThis book aims to supplement the reader's clinical experience with a carefully designed series of commonly encountered clinical problems in general surgery to simulate the clinical decision-making approach. Each clinical topic includes: a problem-solving approach; system-based essential core knowledge; concise explanations of relevant basic sciences; management pathways (based on the most up-to-date guidelines); FAQs; self-assessment (EMQs, SBAs, T/F). This book, primarily aimed at undergraduates and junior doctors, will guide and stimulate the reader to recognise, recall and apply the relevant facts to given clinical situations and also enhance success at clinical examinations. "Standard textbooks can be daunting. This book is different. I believe that students and young doctors will find this an easy read and will be able to translate the scenarios into an understanding of how clinical pathways are constructed. By asking questions through the pathways students are encouraged to develop their own ideas - a form of problem-based learning rather than learning by rote. Retention of facts is so much easier when they form part of a story." David Cade FRCS, Consultant Surgeon |
Contents
Biliary colic | |
Obstructive jaundice | |
Acute pancreatitis | |
Dyspepsia | |
Acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage | |
Dysphagia | |
Anal fissures suppuration sinuses fistulae and piles | |
Acute intestinal obstruction | |
Acute abdomen | |
Inflammatory bowel disease | |
The critically injured patient | |
Head injury | |
Major burns | |
Groin hernia | |
Other editions - View all
Clinical Surgery Made Easy: A companion to problem-based learning Mohan de Silva, Limited preview - 2008 |
Clinical Surgery Made Easy: A Companion to Problem-based Learning Mohan De Silva No preview available - 2008 |
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abdominal aortic aneurysm abdominal pain acute pancreatitis anal anal fissure Answers overleaf Self-assessment antibiotics artery assessment asymptomatic axillary bile duct biliary biopsy bladder bleeding blood breast cancer carbimazole carcinoma carotid cause chest cholecystectomy cholecystitis chronic clinical diagnosis Clinical points colic colitis colon cancer colonoscopy colorectal cancer Crohn's disease CT scan dilated disease distended dyspepsia endoscopic evidence examination excision Explanatory notes femoral fistula fluid gallbladder gallstones gastric gland goitre guidelines haemorrhage hernia hypercalcaemia hyperthyroidism infection inguinal injury intravenous ischaemia jaundice laparoscopic lesion lymph nodes malignant metastases nodule normal oesophageal overleaf Self-assessment answers palpable parathyroid patient peptic ulcer performed peritoneal polyps postoperative pre-operative presents pressure Progress prostate pulse rate radiotherapy rectal cancer rectum recurrence renal resection risk scenario Self-assessment answers Q1 Self-assessment Q1 EMQ serum sphincter stenosis stent stone stools surgeon surgery surgical symptoms tenderness therapy thyroid cancer thyroidectomy tissue treatment True/False tumour ultrasound scan urine