Pocket Surgery

 Prepared by residents and attending physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Pocket Surgery, follows the style of Pocket Medicine, one of the best-selling references for medical students, interns, and residents. This pocket-sized loose-leaf resource can be used on the wards and by candidates reviewing for board exams. 

In bulleted lists, tables, and algorithms, Pocket Surgery provides key clinical information about common surgical conditions in all areas of surgery, including breast, critical care, cardiothoracic, gastrointestinal, colorectal, vascular, pediatric, plastic, transplant, transplant, and endocrine.  

CONTENTS

PERIOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT 1-1
Melanie Goldfarb and Russell Nauta
CRITICAL CARE 2-1
Satish N. Nadig, Mark A. Gromski, and Alan Lisbon
TRAUMA 3-1
Paula Ferrada, Neel Sodha, and James Hurst
ESOPHAGUS 4-1
Andrew H. Stephen and Jonathan Critchlow
STOMACH AND DUODENUM 5-1
Nhue Do and Benjamin E. Schneider
DUODENUM, JEJUNUM, AND ILEUM 6-1
Stephen Odom, David Odell, and Christopher Boyd
BILIARY DISEASE 7-1
Ryan A. Macke and Charles M. Vollmer Jr.
PANCREAS 8-1
Saju Joseph and Mark P. Callery
LIVER 9-1
Patrick J. Ross and Douglas W. Hanto
SPLEEN 10-1
Saila P. Nicotera and Steven D. Schwaitzberg
COLON 11-1
Marco Tomassi, Lisa Parry, and Deborah Nagle
ANORECTAL 12-1
Vitaliy Poylin and Deborah Nagle
VASCULAR SURGERY 13-1
Gautum V. Shrikande, Thomas S. Monahan, and Frank B. Pomposelli
CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY 14-1
Min Kim, Louis Chu, Ryan A. Macke, and Malcolm M. Decamp Jr.
HEAD AND NECK 15-1
Junaid Y. Malek, Jeffrey J. Siracuse, and David Caradonna
ENDOCRINE 16-1
Melanie Goldfarb, Patrick O’Neal, Christeen Osborn, Per-Olof Hasselgren,
and Steven D. Schwaitzberg
BREAST 17-1
Reza Rahbar and Mary Jane Houlihan
TRANSPLANT 18-1
Steven Tizio, Seth Karp, and Scott Johnson
PLASTIC SURGERY 19-1
Frank Lau, Wojciech Przylecki, Bernard Lee, and Sumner Slavin
PEDIATRIC SURGERY 20-1
Sang Lee, Stefan Scholz, and Christopher Walden
GENITOURINARY 21-1
Patrick B. O’Neal and Michael Kearney
GYNECOLOGY 22-1
Michelle Martin and Christopher Awtrey
SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE 23-1
Aram Demirjian and John Mullen
HERNIAS 24-1
Michael P. Robich and Mark E. Stoker

APPENDIX I: ENDOSCOPY I-1
Mark A. Gromski, Kristen Raven, and Michael Cahalane
APPENDIX II: INCISIONS II-1
APPENDIX III: ACLS III-1
APPENDIX IV: ATLS IV-1
APPENDIX V: ICU MEDICATIONS V-1
APPENDIX VI: ANTIBIOTICS VI-1
INDEX 1-1

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Melanie Goldfarb. Surgery Resident, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA