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1.General topics -- Are you ready for your surgical rotation? -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- How to treat all cardiac dysrhythmias -- How to think about shock -- Congestive heart failure (CHF) and pulmonary insufficiency -- Mechanical ventilation -- Why get arterial blood gases? -- Fluids, electrolytes, Gatorade, and sweat -- Nutritional assessment, parenteral, and enteral nutrition -- What does postoperative fever mean? -- Surgical wound infection -- Priorities in evaluation of the acute abdomen -- Surgical infectious disease -- Risks of blood-borne disease -- Sepsis -- Frailty -- II. Trauma. Initial assessment -- Posttraumatic hemorrhagic shock -- Traumatic brain injury -- Spinal cord injuries -- Penetrating neck trauma -- Blunt thoracic trauma -- Penetrating thoracic trauma -- Blunt abdominal trauma -- Penetrating abdominal trauma -- Hepatic and biliary trauma -- Splenic trauma -- Pancreatic and duodenal injury -- Trauma to the colon and rectum -- Pelvic fractures -- Upper urinary tract injuries -- Lower urinary tract injury and pelvic trauma -- Extremity vascular injuries -- Facial lacerations -- Maxillofacial trauma -- Basic care of hand injuries -- Burns -- Pediatric trauma -- III. Abdominal surgery. Appendicitis -- Gallbladder disease -- Pancreatic cancer -- Acute pancreatitis -- Diagnosis and therapy of chronic pancreatitis -- Portal hypertension and esophageal varices -- Gastroesophageal reflux disease -- Esophageal cancer -- Acid-peptic ulcer disease -- Small bowel obstruction -- Intestinal ischemia -- Diverticular disease of the colon -- Acute large bowel obstruction -- Inflammatory bowel disease -- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding -- Lower gastrointestinal bleeding -- Colorectal polyps -- Colorectal carcinoma -- Anorectal disease -- Inguinal hernia -- Bariatric surgery -- IV. Endocrine surgery. Hyperparathyroidism -- Hyperthyroidism -- Thyroid nodules and cancer -- Surgical hypertension -- Adrenal laparoscopic adrenalectomy incidentaloma -- V. Breast surgery. Breast masses -- Primary therapy for breast cancer -- VI. Other cancers. What is cancer? -- Melanoma -- Non-melanoma skin cancer -- Parotid tumors -- Neck masses -- VII. Vascular surgery. What is atherosclerosis? -- Arterial insufficiency -- Carotid disease -- Abdominal aortic aneurysm -- Venous disease -- Noninvasive vascular diagnostic laboratory -- VIII. Cardiothoracic surgery. Coronary artery disease -- Mitral stenosis -- Mitral regurgitation -- Aortic valvular disease -- Thoracic surgery for non-neoplastic disease -- Lung cancer -- Solitary pulmonary nodule -- Dissecting aortic aneurysm -- IX. Pediatric surgery. Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis -- Intestinal obstruction of neonates and infants -- Tracheoesophageal malformations -- Tracheoesophageal malformations -- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia -- Abdominal tumors -- Congenital cysts and sinuses of the neck -- X. Transplantation. Liver transplantation -- Kidney and pancreas transplantation -- Heart transplantation -- Mechanical circulatory support -- Lung transplantation -- Penile and scrotal urologic emergencies -- Urolithiasis -- XI. Urology. Renal cell carcinoma -- Bladder cancer -- Prostate cancer -- Urodynamics and voiding dysfunction -- Pediatric urology -- XII. Health care. Can health care be reformed? -- Ethics in the surgical intensive care unit -- Professionalism -- Required reading. |
