Surgery : evidence-based practice / Stephen M. Cohn, Steven T. Brower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohn, Stephen M., author.

Brower, Steven T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgery.

Evidence-based medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1017 p.)

Place of Publication:

Shelton, Connecticut : People's Medical Publishing House-USA, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A guide to "when to" and "what to" rather than "how to," this book provides evidence-based surgical reviews to provide credible answers to age-old surgical management questions. The management issues presented are oriented toward interventions and use evidence-based techniques to assess the safety and efficacy of new treatments and rehabilitative or preventative interventions. Each chapter is organized around the key questions essential to delineating the current status of evidence related to the subject reviewed. Publications from the past decade are cited that provide Level I and II evidence using the Oxford scale. Throughout Elective General Surgery, careful assessment of the validity of intervention studies and the strength of the evidence that they provide underlies the choices of cited publications. The information presented in this volume guides the scientific surgeon in providing state-of-the-art care and in optimizing the use of medical resources without losing sight of the need to address the unique needs of individual patients.

Contents:

""Surgery: Evidence-Based Practice ""; ""Contents ""; ""Contributors ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""1: Understanding the Elements that Comprise Evidence-Based Medicine ""; ""2: Patient Safety in Surgical Care""; ""3. The Esophagus""; ""4: Achalasia and Esophageal Spasms""; ""5: Esophageal Diverticula""; ""6: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease""; ""7: Inguinal Hernias""; ""8: Esophageal Caustic Injury""; ""9: Esophageal Tumors""; ""10: The Use of Esophageal Stents""; ""11: Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Treatment of Esophageal Cancer""; ""12: Esophageal Atresia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula""

""13: The Stomach""""14: Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome""; ""15: Evidence-Based Bariatric Surgery""; ""16: Gastric Adenocarcinoma""; ""17: Management of Upper GI Bleeding""; ""18: Small Bowel""; ""19: Crohn's Disease of the Small Bowel""; ""20: Small Bowel Tumors and Diverticular Disease of SB""; ""21: Enterocutaneous Fistula""; ""22: Short Bowel Syndrome""; ""23: Large Bowel""; ""24: Crohn's Colitis and Ulcerative Colitis""; ""25: Large Bowel Obstruction""; ""26: Radiation Injury to the Small and Large Bowel""; ""27: Ischemic Colitis""; ""28: Pseudomembranous Colitis""

""29: Colon and Rectal Cancer Including Adjuvant""""30: Tumors of the Anal Region""; ""31: Inherited Colorectal Cancer Syndromes""; ""32: Preoperative Bowel Preparation""; ""33: Appendicitis""; ""34: Hemorrhoids""; ""35: Anorectal Fissure, Stricture, Abscess, and Fistula""; ""36: Fecal Incontinence and Surgical Management of Constipation""; ""37: Rectovaginal Fistula""; ""38: Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding""; ""39: The Liver""; ""40: Hepatic Infections: Pyogenic Abscess, Amebic Abscess, and Hydatid Cyst""; ""41: Malignant Liver Tumors""; ""42: Portal Hypertension""

""43: Management of Intractable Ascites: The Evidence""""44: Hepatic Encephalopathy""; ""45: Elective Non-hepatic Surgery in Cirrhotic Patients""; ""46: The Gallbladder and Bile Ducts""; ""47: Acute Cholecystitis""; ""48: Common Bile Duct Stones""; ""49: Benign Biliary Strictures""; ""50: Gallstones Ileus""; ""51: Bile Duct and Gallbladder Tumors""; ""52: Obstructive Jaundice: Transhepatic and Endoscopic Interventions""; ""53: The Pancreas""; ""54: Infected Pancreatic Collections""; ""55: Pancreatic Pseudocysts""; ""56: Chronic Pancreatitis""; ""57: Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma""

""58: Unusual Pancreatic Tumors""""59: The Spleen""; ""60: Tumors, Cysts, and Abscesses of the Spleen""; ""61: Splenic Salvage""; ""62: Postsplenectomy Sepsis""; ""63: Hernia""; ""64: Recurrent Inguinal Hernia""; ""65: Epigastric and Umbilical Hernia""; ""66: Incisional and Ventral Hernias""; ""67: Endocrine Glands""; ""68: Pheochromocytoma""; ""69: Thyroid Nodules""; ""70: Hyperthyroidisn, Thyroiditis, and Nontoxic Goiter""; ""71: Hyperparathyroidism""; ""72: The Breast""; ""73: Breast Cancer: Surgical Therapy""; ""74: Breast Cancer: Lymphatic Mapping and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy""

""75: Systemic Treatment Strategies for Early-Stage Breast Cancers""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 28, 2014).

ISBN:

1-60795-242-4

OCLC:

923336868