Central Venous Catheterization
CHAPTER 3 Central Venous Catheterization Ronald F. Parsons, Kristoffel R. Dumon Case Study A 68-year-old male undergoes an emergent left hemicolectomy for colonic ischemia. His postoperative course is complicated by…
GENERAL SURGERY
Principles of Wound Closure
CHAPTER 2 Principles of Wound Closure Suhail K. Kanchwala, Louis P. Bucky Case Study A 21-year-old male presents to the emergency room with right lower quadrant pain. He is taken…
Preoperative and Intraoperative Care
CHAPTER 1 Preoperative and Intraoperative Care Robert E. Roses, Suhail K. Kanchwala, Patrick M. Reilly Case Study A 72-year-old male presents to a surgeon’s office after being diagnosed with a…
Ventral Herniorrhaphy
CHAPTER 5 Ventral Herniorrhaphy Joshua Fosnot, Matt L. Kirkland, III Case Study A 67-year-old male with a history of a laparotomy presents with a complaint of a “large bulge” in…
The nervous system
Chapter 11 The nervous system Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? Hippocrates (460–375 BC) The neurological history The neurological history…
The gastrointestinal system
Chapter 6 The gastrointestinal system To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to…
The rheumatological system
Chapter 9 The rheumatological system The rheumatism is a common name for many aches and pains which have yet got no peculiar appellation, though owing to very different causes. William…
The cardiovascular system
Chapter 4 The cardiovascular system The heart … moves of itself and does not stop unless for ever. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) This chapter deals with the history and the…
The endocrine system
Chapter 10 The endocrine system A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man—he must view the man in his world. Harvey…
The haematological system
Chapter 8 The haematological system [T]he blood is the generative part, the fountain of life, the first to live, the last to die and the primary seat to the soul….
