BAILEY AND LOVE'S SHORT PRACTICE OF SURGERY. 28TH EDITION

• Part 1: Basic Principles
1. Metabolic response to injury
2. Shock and blood transfusion
3. Wounds, healing, tissue repair
4. Tissue engineering and regeneration
5. Surgical infection
6. Tropical infections and infestations
7. Basic surgical skills
8. Diagnostic imaging
9. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
10. Principles of minimal access surgery
11. Tissue and molecular diagnosis
12. Principles of oncology
13. Surgical audit and research
14. Ethics and law in surgical practice
15. Human factors, patient safety and quality improvement
16. Global Health and surgery
• Part 2: General Paediatrics
17. General Paediatrics
18. 18. Neonatal Surgery
19. 19. Trauma in children
20. 20. Paediatric Urology
• Part 3: PERIOPERATIVE CARE
21. Pre-operative care including the high-risk patient
22. Day case surgery
23. Anaesthesia and pain relief
24. Postoperative care, including perioperative optimisation
25. Nutrition and fluid therapy
• Part 4: Trauma
26. Introduction to trauma
27. Early assessment and management of severe trauma
28. Traumatic brain injury
29. Torso & pelvic trauma
30. The neck and spine
31. Maxillofacial trauma
32. Extremity trauma
33. Disaster surgery
34. Conflict Surgery
• Part 5: Elective Orthopaedics
35. History taking and clinical examination in musculoskeletal disease
36. Sports medicine and sports injuries
37. The spine
38. The upper limb
39. The hip
40. The knee
41. The foot and ankle
42. Musculoskeletal tumours
43. Infection of the bones and joints
44. Paediatric orthopaedics
• Part 6: Skin, Plastic & Reconstructive
45. Skin and subcutaneous tissue
46. Burns
47. Plastic and reconstructive surgery
• Part 7: Head and Neck
48. Cranial neurosurgery
49.The eye and orbit
50. Developmental abnormalities of the face mouth and jaws: cleft lip and palate
51.The ear, nose and sinuses
52.The pharynx, larynx and neck
53.Oral Cavity
54. Disorders of the salivary glands
• Part 8: Endocrine and Breast
55.The thyroid gland
56.The parathyroid glands
57. The adrenal glands and other abdominalendocrine disorders
58. The breast
• Part 9: Cardiothoracic
59.Cardiac surgery
60.The thorax
• Part 10: Vascular
61.Arterial disorders
62. Venous and lymphatic disorders
• Part 11: Abdominal
63.History and examination of the abdomen
64.The abdominal wall, hernia and umbilicus
65.The peritoneum, mesentery, greater omentum, and retroperitoneal space
66.The oesophagus
67.The stomach and duodenum
68. Bariatric and metabolic surgery
69. The liver
70. The spleen
71. The gall bladder and bile ducts
72. The pancreas
73. Functional disorders of the intestine
74. The small intestines
75. Inflammatory bowel disease
76.The vermiform appendix
77. The large intestines
78. Intestinal obstruction
79. The rectum
80. The anus and anal canal
• Part 12: Genitourinary
81. Urinary symptoms and investigations
82. The kidney and ureters
83. The urinary bladder
84.The prostate and seminal vesicles
85.Urethra and penis
86. Testis and scrotum
87.Gynaecology
• Part 13: Transplantation
88.Kidney transplantation and the principles of transplantation
89.Liver transplantation
90. Pancreas transplantation
91. Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation
92. Heart and Lung Transplantation

The 28th edition of Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery is the leading surgical resource for medical students and surgeons in training. It encompasses the basic principles of careful history taking, observation, deductive reasoning, technical knowledge and post-operative patient care to ensure safe surgical practice.

Key features
• Relevant - the content matches both undergraduate and post-graduate curriculae
• Readable – features summary boxes of core knowledge throughout the text. The consistent layout and style of tables, graphics, and diagrams aids easy understanding of key 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 of transplant surgery. Emphasizes 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 has been included in a familiar format
• Digital Resources – Readers can access extra content via the dedicated Bailey and Love website which includes Questions and Answers, Expanded Content, Videos, Author interviews and more

Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery 28th edition 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 young and old as a rite of passage and a repository of the core learning needed for clinical practice.