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Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery - 28th Edition

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Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery, 28th Edition is a comprehensive guide designed for medical students and surgeons in training, covering the fundamental principles of surgical practice. This edition features clear summaries, consistent visual aids including tables, diagrams, and algorithms, and highlights recent and upcoming advances in surgery. Expanded sections on paediatric and transplant surgery, as well as the role of multidisciplinary teams and patient involvement in decision-making, ensure the content remains current and practical. Accompanied by digital resources such as videos and author interviews, it is a trusted resource for mastering surgical knowledge and patient care.
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This authoritative text is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, surgical trainees, and healthcare professionals seeking a reliable and up-to-date surgical reference. Its clarity and comprehensive coverage also make it valuable for educators and practitioners aiming to enhance clinical skills and knowledge.

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The 28th edition of Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery is the leading surgical resource for medical students and surgeons in training. It encompasses the basic principles of careful history taking, observation, deductive reasoning, technical knowledge and post-operative patient care to ensure safe surgical practice.

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The 28th edition of Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery is the leading surgical resource for medical students and surgeons in training. It encompasses the basic principles of careful history taking, observation, deductive reasoning, technical knowledge, and post-operative patient care to ensure safe surgical practice.

Key features

  • Relevant - the content matches both undergraduate and post-graduate curriculae.
  • Readable – features summary boxes of core knowledge throughout the text. The consistent layout and style of tables, graphics, and diagrams aids easy understanding of key concepts. Also includes algorithms to assist the reader in understanding patient care pathways.
  • Current – highlights where major developments in surgical practice have occurred or are likely to transform surgical practice in the next decade.
  • Contemporary – includes expanded coverage of paediatric surgery and transplant surgery. Emphasizes the importance of the multidisciplinary team approach, together with patient engagement in difficult decision making.
  • Authoritative – every chapter has been revised by expert authors, and the most up-to-date content has been included in a familiar format.
  • Digital Resources – Readers can access extra content via the dedicated Bailey and Love website which includes Questions and Answers, Expanded Content, Videos, Author interviews, and more.

Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery 28th edition continues to provide the essential knowledge required for surgical training. It remains a familiar friend, venerated by generations of medical students as well as surgeons young and old as a rite of passage and a repository of the core learning needed for clinical practice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367618599

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Edition: 28th edition

Illustration: 381 Tables, black and white; 699 Line drawings, color; 1275 Halftones, color; 830 Halftones, black and white; 1974 Illustrations, color; 830 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by P. Ronan O'Connell
  • Edited by Andrew W. McCaskie
  • Edited by Robert D. Sayers

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 213.0mm

Height: 276.0mm

Weight: 4680g

Pages: 1676

About the Author

Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, BA MD FRCSI FRCSGlasg FRCSEd FRCSEng (Hon) FCSHK(Hon) - President, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; President, European Surgical Association; Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Professor O’Connell has served as an editor of the British Journal of Surgery and associate editor of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. He has been editor in chief for the European Surgical Association and joint editor of Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of Surgery for the 25th, 26th 27th and now 28th editions, having contributed chapters to the 23rd and 24th editions. Apart from his editing, Prof O’Connell is widely published in the areas of IBD, colorectal cancer and pelvic floor physiology. He is a Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and holds ad hominum fellowships of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Royal Colleges. He is a past President of the European Society of Coloproctology and honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

Professor Andrew W. McCaskie, MMus MD FRCS FRCSENG (Tr and Orth) - Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery; University of Cambridge, Honorary Consultant, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

Professor Andrew McCaskie is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery at the University of Cambridge. He trained in Leeds, Leicester and Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery until moving to Cambridge in 2013. His clinical interest is the lower limb, and particularly the treatment of osteoarthritis, seeking to develop repair and regenerative therapies at early stages of disease. He is the Director of the Arthritis Research UK Tissue Engineering Centre which brings together UK clinicians, engineers and biologists to develop stem and stromal cell therapy for early osteoarthritis.

He has been the President of the British Orthopaedic Research Society, member of the Council of Management of The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, and member of Council of the British Orthopaedic Association. He is currently the Director of the Academic Foundation Programme in Cambridge and is widely published, including papers in The Lancet and Nature Genetics.

Professor Robert D Sayers, MBChB(Hons) MD AFHEA FRCSEng - George Davies Chair of Vascular Surgery, University of Leicester and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK

Member of the Court of Examiners, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Royal College of Surgeons Surgical Tutor, Leicester Royal Infirmary. Member of the Critical Care Steering Group, Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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