Research work · 2014
Principles of surgery
Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Surgery
Abstract
Modern surgery is possibly the most complete discipline in medicine today. It combines the need for understanding of the complete range of pathological processes that befall the human body from neoplasia and microbiological disease to degenerative and genetic related conditions. There is a need to be familiar with the latest concepts in how to monitor and manage the physiological processes of the body whilst still needing to understand when and how treatment, surgical and non-surgical, should be used. The modern student or trainee must be able to master all these disciplines. Integrating the understanding of basic body processes with the principles of how and when to support, prevent, or replace them forms the core of the principles of surgery. In the following sections, the questions will cover all these principles. This first chapter also covers the key points of the assessment of surgical disease by history and examination as well as how pathological processes in organ systems can affect patients coming to surgery. Lastly, every doctor needs to understand the basic facts about how surgical operations and procedures are conducted and how patients are kept safe during surgery.