Bailey & Love’s Short Practice Of Surgery 28th Edition (International Student’s Edition, Set of Volume 1 & 2)

Bailey & Love’s Short Practice Of Surgery 28th Edition (International Student’s Edition, Set of Volume 1 & 2) 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, both young and old, as a rite of passage and a repository of the core learning needed for safe surgical practice.

Key features

• Relevant – the content matches both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula
• Readable – features summary boxes of key knowledge throughout the text. The consistent layout and style of tables, graphics and diagrams aids easy understanding of complex 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. Emphasises 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 is included in a familiar format
• Digital resources – readers can access extra content via the dedicated Bailey & Love website, which includes questions and answers, expanded content, videos and more.

The basic principles of careful history taking, observation, deductive reasoning, technical knowledge and postoperative patient care remain the cornerstones of safe clinical practice. Set out in the first edition of Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery in 1932, these principles have been refined over nearly a century. Throughout the 28 editions, this key text has been the leading surgical resource and first point of reference for medical students and surgeons in training and in practice worldwide.

About the Editor

Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, MD FRCS(I) FRCPS(Glas) FRCS(Ed) Head of Section of Surgery and Surgical Specialties, University College Dublin, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Professor P. Ronan O’Connell is Head of Surgical Specialties at the UCD School of Medicine, Dublin Ireland and Consultant Surgeon at St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1979 and trained as general surgeon with sub-specialty interest in Coloproctology. Having completed a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA, he spent time as a Senior Lecturer with Professor Sir Norman Williams at the Royal London Hospital. He was appointed consultant surgeon at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital Dublin in 1990 where he served until his current appointment in 2007. 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 and now 27th 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 FRCS (T&O) 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.