Basic Techniques in Pediatric Surgery, 2013
An Operative Manual

Coordinators: Carachi Robert, Agarwala Sandeep, Bradnock Tim J.

Language: English

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Basic techniques in pediatric surgery: an operative manual
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644 p. · 17.8x25.4 cm · Hardback
This unique manual is a ?surgical cookbook? designed to provide clear and concise guidance for trainees in pediatric surgery. With the aid of simple line drawings depicting each operative step, more than one hundred frequently performed procedures are explained and demonstrated. The reader will learn how to perform each procedure effectively and safely, avoiding potential complications. The full range of surgery is covered, including basic surgical skills, day surgery procedures, emergency surgery procedures and minimally invasive surgery. The book will be of value not only to trainees in pediatric surgery but also to trainees in general surgery, theatre nurses, parents and carers.
From the content: Basic Surgical Techniques.- The WHO Safe Surgery checklist.- Positioning.- Preparation.- Head and Neck.- Layers of the scalp and suturing.- External and internal angular dermoid.- Cleft lip and palate.- Spine and Limbs.- Spina Bifida.- Forearm manipulation and molded cast.- Distal radius wiring.- Thoracic.- Chest drain insertion.- Thoracotomy.- Abdomen.- Upper GI Endoscopy.- The endoscopic management of upper GI bleeding.- Proctoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy.- Groin and Genitalia.- Exposure of the inguinal canal and Spermatic Cord Structures.- Inguinal hernia and ligation of patent processus vaginalis.- Incarcerated inguinal hernia.- Urology.- Cystourethroscopy.- Urethral and suprapubic catheterisation.- Open surgical approaches to the kidney.- Perineum.- Anal fissures and skin tags.- Perianal abscess and fistula-in-ano.- Minimally Invasive Surgery.- Ergonomics, Heuristics and Cognitive Skills in Laparoscopic Surgery.- Complications of laparoscopic surgery.

Robert Carachi, MD, PhD, FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Eng), FEBPS, is Professor of Surgical Paediatrics at the University of Glasgow and Head of the Department/Section of Surgical Paediatrics at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, where he has been an Honorary Consultant and a Paediatric and Neonatal Surgeon since 1987. Dr. Carachi holds various other positions, including Clinical Lead for Paediatric Telemedicine and Chairman of the Steering Committee for Scotland, Scottish Centre for Telehealth. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Scottish Medical Journal and an Editorial Consultant to the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, and has been on the editorial board of the European Journal of Paediatric Surgery since 1996. Dr. Carachi is a past President of the Paediatric Surgical Section of the Union of European Medical Specialists (UEMS) and is Chairman of the Exam Board for the European Board of Paediatric Surgery. Since 2007 he has been Director of the Scottish Spina Bifida Association. He is a visiting professor or lecturer in a wide range of overseas countries. He has authored approximately 150 journal articles and a number of book chapters, and is also an editor or author of 11 previous books.

 

 

Jay L. Grosfeld, MD, is Lafayette F. Page Professor and Chairman Emeritus at the Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana. He was first appointed Professor and Director of Pediatric Surgery at Indiana University in 1972, and was the first Surgeon-in-Chief of the Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis. In 1985 he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine, the first pediatric surgeon in the USA so honored. In 2003, Dr. Grosfeld stepped down from the Chair of Surgery at Indiana University after serving 19 years in that capacity. Dr. Grosfeld has won numerous teaching awards at Indiana University, including the prestigious President’s

A unique “surgical cookbook” designed to provide clear and concise guidance for trainees in pediatric surgery

Explains and demonstrates more than one hundred frequently performed procedures with the aid of simple line drawings depicting each operative step

Covers the full range of surgery, including basic surgical skills, day surgery procedures, emergency surgery procedures, and minimally invasive surgery

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras