Aurora D. Pryor, Theodore N. Pappas, Malcolm Stanley Branch
Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management
Published: 2010-02-03 | ISBN: 144191692X | 224 pages
The diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal bleeding is multidisciplinary by nature involving surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists. Due to various pathologies, it involves upper gut, lower gut and occult bleeding. Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management covers all aspects of bleeding in a systemic approach organized by the site of bleeding. Elective and emergent bleeding is also covered. This volume provides a practical text for the practitioner in addressing patient issues in their practice, with a step-by-step approach through appropriate diagnosis and management strategies including surgical, endoscopic, medical and angiographic techniques, making this a truly multidisciplinary and disease based text. Specific sections in the book are crafted by experts in each topic. Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Practical Approach to Diagnosis and Management provides a ready reference that will help physicians understand and work through diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas and will be of great value to full range of practitioners that manage patients with bleeding including surgeons, gastroenterologists and radiologists as well as residents and fellows in these subspecialties.

Conor P. Delaney
"Operative Techniques in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery"
ISBN: 0781766346 | edition 2006 | 224 pages
This full-color reference provides step-by-step instructions for the major laparoscopic colorectal procedures, and describes complications and strategies for their resolution. Each chaper begins with a detailed description of the procedures, including intra-operative difficulties and complications.

Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections
Springer; 1st Edition | October 13, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1441908609 | 236 pages

Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections provides a unique diagnostic reference text for the pathologic diagnosis of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Written for the practicing surgical pathologist, this text combines the superior illustrations of an atlas with carefully written prose to create a useful diagnostic companion. The text is divided into four sections covering bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic infections of the gastrointestinal tract. The descriptive sections of each chapter are organized into short paragraphs for easy reference and include the use of tables to compare and contrast organisms and summarize differential diagnoses. Each chapter is extensively illustrated, and contains prose discussions of diagnostic features, differential diagnoses, brief clinical descriptions, and ancillary tests that help confirm the diagnosis (i.e. immunohistochemistry, special histochemical stains, and molecular diagnostic techniques).

Surgical Pathology of the Gastrointestinal System: Bacterial, Fungal, Viral, and Parasitic Infections provides pertinent clinical, diagnostic, and epidemiologic information that will be valuable to the practicing surgical pathologist. This volume will also help surgical pathologists gain familiarity with other contributory laboratory tests that are available to help confirm diagnosis.

Harrison's Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Dan Longo and Anthony Fauci
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0071663339 | 753 pages

The authority of Harrison's in a handy, full-color paperback devoted exclusively to Gastroenterology and Hepatology

"the book is ideal for medical students and residents rotating on a gastroenterology service (who may prefer to own the parent textbook) and would be useful to practitioners studying for the Maintenance of Certification examination."--Gastroenterology

Featuring the chapters on Gastroenterology and Hepatology that appear in the landmark Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17e, this compact clinical companion delivers all the latest knowledge in the field, backed by the scientific rigor and reliability that has defined Harrison's.

You'll find coverage that reflects the expertise of renowned editors and contributors -- presented in a carry-anywhere format that makes it ideal for the classroom, the wards, or the point of care. With its ease of use, indispensable diagnosis-speeding guidelines, and acclaimed state-of-the-art strategies, Harrison's Gastroenterology and Hepatology is a must for students and clinicians alike.

Harrison's Gastroenterology and Hepatology delivers:

- Complete coverage of need-to-know gastroenterology and hepatology topics, including cardinal manifestations of disease, differential diagnosis and diagnostic evaluation, management of diseases and disorders, and obesity, nutrition, and eating disorders
- References updated since the publication of HPIM 17e
- Content from the acclaimed Harrison's DVD in print form, including a complete atlas of liver disease
- 58 chapters written by physicians who have made seminal contributions to the body of knowledge in their areas of expertise
- Integration of pathophysiology with clinical management topics in each of the disease-oriented chapters
- 140 high-yield questions and answers drawn from Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine Self-Assessment and Board Review, 17e
- Helpful appendix of laboratory values of clinical importance

Everything you would expect from Harrison's tailored to your specialty
Cardinal Manifestations of Gastrointestinal Disease; Evaluation of the Patient with Alimentary Tract Symptoms; Disorders of the Alimentary Tract; Infections of the Alimentary Tract; Evaluation of the Patient with Liver Disease; Disorders of the Liver and Biliary Tree; Liver Transplantation.

Surgical Arithmetic: Epidemiological, Statistical and Outcome-Based Approach to Surgical Practice
Landes Bioscience; 1st edition | October 20, 2000 | ISBN-10: 1570596727 | 245 pages

Surgical Arithmetic offers practical guidelines for an epidemiological, statistical and outcomes-based approach to medical practice. While the many examples are mostly drawn from the surgical literature, the overall objective is to meet the growing challenge of making sense of what is known in order to maximize the utility of medical knowledge for clinicians in all specialties. The information in this book will enhance the surgeon's and other clinician's roles as an educated collaborator in research and medical decision-making. Epidemiology students will also find it an excellent one-stop source for most topics covered in a typical graduate program in epidemiology.

Sajeesh Kumar, Jacques Marescaux
Telesurgery
Published: 2007-12-13 | ISBN: 3540729984 | 213 pages

Written by renowned experts from Australia, Canada, the United States, Asia, and Europe, Telesurgery explains technical issues, digital information processing, and provides collective experiences from practitioners in different parts of the world who perform a wide range of telesurgery applications. This includes transatlantic telesurgery and telesurgery for urology, brachytherapy, Heller myotomy, etc. There are numerous graphics and clinical photographs throughout, which illustrate and illuminate the text well, providing high-quality visual reference material. Telesurgery lays the foundation for the globalization of surgical procedures, making possible the ability of a surgeon located in one part of the world to operate on a patient located in another.

Colonoscopy: Principles and Practice
Wiley-Blackwell | 2009-07-27 | ISBN: 1405175990 | 800 pages

First Edition - Winner of 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition in GastroenterologyThe second edition of this prize winning book is written by some of the world’s foremost experts in the field of colonoscopy and colonic imaging. Every chapter has been updated and 5 new chapters have been added to include the latest information and advances in the field of colonoscopy:

* Capsule Colonoscopy
* Narrow Band Imaging
* Confocal Endomicroscopy
* Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in the Colon
* New Colonoscopes and Assist Devices

Drawing on the vast experience of the authors it covers every area of medicine that impacts on colonoscopy, including virtual colonography, pathology, techniques for pediatric and adult procedures, and legal aspects concerning colonoscopy.

The book is focused on patient care, and provides explanations on how to perform the procedure effectively and make the best outcome for your patients. It serves as a detailed manual of procedures, extensively illustrated with diagrams and photographs.

The book includes a companion DVD with supplementary material: a lecture on the history of colonoscopy, interviews with famous gastroenterologists, demonstrations of techniques, and typical and unusual cases.

Click here to view a sample clip from the DVD

http://www.gastrohep.com/waye/colonoscopy.asp

This is an invaluable compendium on all aspects of colonoscopy, suitable for use by every grade of practitioner world-wide and an essential reference book for allestablishments with an endoscopy facility.

Surgery Mentor: Clerkship and Shelf Exam Companion
F A Davis Co | 2009-02-20 | ISBN: 0803616953 | 320 pages

Clerkship advantage can be yours. Each title in this new series packs all the information for a core clerkship rotation into just 350 pocket-sized pages. An outline format with hundreds of review questions, full-color illustrations, sidebars, and appendices helps you find the information you need to know to survive the rotation, excel on the shelf exam, and succeed on the USMLE Step 2 exam.

Key Features
* Bonus CD with more than 500 shelf exam-style questions and answers.
* Content based on ACS guidelines.
* State-of-the-art Mentor Tips convey key facts and put details into perspective through the eyes of experienced surgeons.
* Mentoring style helps students understand the way that medical and surgical interventions complement each other.
* Coverage of the basics of the operating room, surgical instruments, and the typical day on the surgical service.

Hrayr K. Shahinian, M.S. Kabil, R. Jarrahy. M.-P. Thill
Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide with Illustrative Cases
2008| ISBN: 1588298140 | 211 pages

To date, more than three thousand brain and skull base tumors, along with various vascular problems, have been treated by using advanced, fully endoscopic, minimally invasive surgical techniques. In Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery, Dr. Hrayr K. Shahinian, director of the Skull Base Institute, compiles these techniques. Highly specific and amply illustrated by over six hundred color photographs complete with a compendium of the necessary surgical instruments, the step-by-step operating room procedures provide a definitive guide to the difficult yet essential art of skull base surgery. Comprehensive and concise, Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery is ideal for all surgical specialists and those training to become specialists who wish to gain a new tool in the noble, on-going cause of saving lives.