Surgical Critical Care: For the MRCS OSCE - Mazyar Kanani, Simon Lammy

This updated book continues the ABCDE chapter format from the second edition incorporating an escalating level of diagnostic and management complexity and a concise bibliography in each chapter. It remains demarcated into two sections the first e. g. ABCDE chapters equips surgical trainees in managing non-ICU-based patients whilst the second provides a basic introduction to ICU care. The chapters introduce standard definitions pathological processes diagnostic features and common management plans. These are based on a range of updated recommended guidelines from NICE and SIGN and common ALS principles in critical care patients as well as current ATLS R and CCrISP R standards. The most common causes of systemic complications in surgical patients are explained e. g. updated sections on sepsis and major haemorrhage protocols to name but a few. A must-have revision guide for all surgical trainees from final-year medical students through to junior surgical registrars.