The Washington Manual® Surgery Survival Guide provides all the essential information that every surgery intern needs from Day 1 on the wards—including daily routine, rounds, chart reviews, preoperative and postoperative care, operating room conduct, radiology, critical care, and interaction with families, colleagues, and allied health professionals.

Content includes algorithms, useful formulas, patient notes, and common calls and complaints. Comprehensive sections on common problems in general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, urology, and plastic surgery present evaluation, diagnostic testing, and treatment in an easy-to-follow format.

Other chapters cover crashing patients, tubes and drains, bleeding, codes, and nutrition.

Contents:

1. Keys to Survival
2. Organizing Your Day
3. Call Night
4. Talking to Families
5. Discharges
6. Against Medical Advice
7. Expirations
8. Books
9. Internet Resources
10. Preoperative Cardiac Assessment
11. Preoperative Blood Work and Imaging
12. Bowel Prep
13. Preoperative Diet
14. Preoperative Antibiotics
15. Preoperative Holding Area
16. Consent
17. OR Conduct
18. Postoperative Check
19. Communicating with the Radiology Department
20. Contrast Agents
21. Neuroradiology
22. Chest Radiology
23. Abdominal and Pelvic Radiology
24. Interventional Radiology
25. Vascular Studies
26. Common Calls: General Procedure
27. Chest Pain
28. Confusion, Mental Status Change, and Agitation
29. Constipation
30. Diarrhea
31. Fever
32. Hypotension
33. Hypertension
34. Low Urine Output
35. Nausea and Vomiting
36. Shortness of Breath
37. Tachycardia
38. Diet Status
39. Falls
40. Insomnia
41. Lost IV Access
42. Pain
43. "Patient Doesn't Look Right"
44. Pharmacy Questions
45. Wound Drainage
46. Breast
47. Esophagus and Upper GI
48. General Abdominal Surgery
49. Herniorrhaphy
50. Laparoscopy
51. Liver/Pancreas/Gallbladder
52. Lower GI
53. Neck
54. Abdominal Observation Patients
55. Spleen
56. Trauma
57. Vascular
58. Crashing Patient
59. Codes
60. Ventilators
61. Invasive Monitoring
62. Medications
63. Bleeding
64. Common Surgical Diets
65. Estimating Nutritional Needs
66. Tube Feeding
67. Total Parenteral Nutrition
68. Nothing by Mouth (NPO)
69. Diabetes
70. Nasoenteric Tubes
71. Surgically Placed Feeding Tubes
72. Tracheostomy
73. Closed Suction Drain
74. Neurosurgery Essentials
75. Neurosurgery: General Approach
76. Approach to Common Problems in Neurosurgery
77. Orthopedic Surgery Essentials
78. Orthopedic Surgery: Emergencies
79. Approach to Orthopedic Injuries
80. Urology Essentials
81. Approach to Urologic Symptoms and Imaging
82. Common Calls in Urology
83. Plastic Surgery Essentials
84. Facial Fractures
85. Decubitus Ulcers

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