Thoroughly revised with a wide range of new topics, presentations, and a new layout to aid quick references, the new edition of this best-selling Oxford Handbook serves as an accessible pocket reference for junior surgical trainees, medical students, nurses, and paramedics. This handbook covers the assessment and preparation of the patient, anaesthesia and critical care, inflammation, wound healing and infection, and the key components of general surgical practice, as well as chapters on other surgical specialties, including plastic, paediatric, and orthopaedic surgery. There are step by step descriptions of common operative surgical techniques, practical hints and procedures, and information on signs, symptoms, and rarities. Emergency presentations are clearly identified for rapid reference and investigations and management plans are set out in a clear and easy way to follow. Surgically relevant antomy and physiology is provided for each area, quick reference symbols ensure that that reader is guide to key facts and there is an increased focus on evidence-based practice throughout. A cut above the rest, this is the essential guide to clinical surgery and the surgical specialties.