Minor Surgery at a Glance

Minor Surgery at a Glance is an essential companion for those who wish to learn or familiarise themselves with minor surgery, including trainees and practising surgeons, dermatologists, GPs, and emergency medicine physicians. Covering the basic principles of minor surgery, as well as offering an overview of techniques and common procedures accompanied by step–by–step illustrations, this book also provides concise summaries of vital information and the clinical practicalities.

Providing an accessible and practical introduction to a rapidly expanding area of practice, Minor Surgery at a Glance is ideal for medical students, foundation programme doctors, and trainees in a wide variety of disciplines who perform minor operations.

Contributors

Preface

Part 1: Avoiding and managing problems: Principles of safe surgery

1. Consent

2. Physical Environment

3. Setup

4. Instruments

5. Infection control and prevention

6. Human Factors

7. Focused History

8. Specimen Processing and Reporting

9. Follow up

10. Anaphylaxis

11. Emergencies and Resuscitation

12. Audit and Practice

13. Communication and Conflict Resolution

Part 2: Basic Pain Control and Anaesthesia

14. Local Anaesthesia

15. Sedation

16. General and Regional Anaesthesia

Part 3: Core surgical knowledge

17. Skin Incisions

18. Principles of wound closure

19. Sutures

20. Needles

21. Diathermy

22. Dressings

23. Haemostasis

24. Hypertrophic and Keloid Scarring

Part 4: Practice of Minor Surgery

Elective Minor Surgery

25. Biopsy Techniques

26. Benign and Premalignant Skin Lesions

27. Melanoma

28. Non–melanoma skin cancer

29. Neck Lumps

30. Sebaceous Cysts

31. Lipoma

32. The Reconstructive Ladder

33. Muscle and Nerve Biopsy

34. Cryotherapy for Verrucae

35. Ingrown Toenail

36. Lymph Node Excision

37. Sclerotherapy

38. Botulinium Toxin

Emergency Minor Surgery

39. Tetanus

40. Scalp Lacerations

41. Foreign Bodies

42. Facial Trauma and Lacerations

43. Difficult Locations

44. Hand injuries

45. Trauma Assessment

46. Psychosocial considerations

47. Incision and drainage of Abscesses

48. Complications

Index