Bailey & Love is the world-famous textbook of surgery. Its comprehensive coverage includes the scientific basis of surgical practice, investigation, diagnosis, and pre-operative care. Trauma and Orthopaedics are included, as are the subspecialties of plastic and reconstructive, head and neck, cardiothoracic and vascular, abdominal and genitourinary surgery. The user-friendly format includes photographs, line diagrams, learning objectives, summary boxes, biographical footnotes, memorable anecdotes and full-colour page design. This book’s reputation for unambiguous advice make it the first point of reference for student and practising surgeons worldwide.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLES: The Science of Surgery

Metabolic response to injury
Kenneth Fearon

Shock and blood transfusion
Karim Brohi

Wounds, healing, tissue repair
Michael Earley

Tissue engineering and regeneration
Andrew McCaskie & Andrew Bradley

Surgical infection
Peter Lamont

Tropical infections and infestations
Pradip Datta, Pawanindra Lal & Sanjay De Bakshi

Basic surgical skills and anastomoses
Mark Coleman

Principles of laparoscopic and robotic surgery
Hutan Ashrafian, Sanjay Purkayastha & Ara Darzi

Principles of paediatric surgery
Tony Lander

Principles of oncology
Robert JC Steele & Alastair J Munro

Surgical audit
Jonothan Earnshaw & Birgit Whitman

Surgical ethics and law
Robert Wheeler

Patient safety and human factors and quality improvement
Frank Keane & Ken Mealy

PART TWO: INVESTIGATION AND DIAGNOSIS　

Diagnostic imaging
Matthew Matson, Muaaze Ahmad & Niall Power

Gastrointestinal endoscopy
James Lindsay & Philip Woodland

Tissue and Molecular diagnosis
Roger Feakins

PART THREE: PERIOPERATIVE CARE

Pre-operative preparation and treatment of the High-Risk Surgical Patient
Medha Vanarese, Pierre Foex & Anand Sardesai

Anaesthesia and pain relief
Vivek Mehta & Serene Chang

Nutrition and fluid therapy
John MacFie

Postoperative care
Anand Sardesai & Fay Gilder

Day case surgery
Douglas McWhinnie & Ian Jackson

PART FOUR: TRAUMA 　

Introduction to trauma
Bob Handley & Peter Giannoudis

Early assessment and management of trauma
Chris Moran & Dan Deakin

Traumatic Brain Injury
Harry Bulstrode & Tony Belli

Neck and spine
John Crawford & Douglas Hay

Maxillofacial trauma
David Koppel

Torso trauma
Ken Boffard & Elias Degiannis

Extremity trauma
Lee Van Rensburg

Disaster surgery
Mamoon Rashid

Conflict Surgery
Jonathan Clasper and Phill Pearce

PART FIVE: ELECTIVE ORTHOPAEDICS

History taking and clinical examination in musculoskeletal disease
Stephen McDonnell & Hemant G. Pandit

Sports medicine and sports injuries
Gina Allen

The spine
Brian Freeman & Chris Lavy

Upper limb
David Limb & Sam Vollans

Hip and knee
Vikas Khanduja & Wasim Khan

Foot and ankle
Bob Sharpe

Musculoskeletal tumours
Paul Cool & Craig Gerrand

Infection of the bones and joints
Martin McNally & Philippa Matthews

Paediatric orthopaedics
Deborah Eastwood

PART SIX: SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE

Skin and subcutaneous tissue
Christopher Chan & Adam Greenbaum

Burns
Michael Tyler & Sudip Ghosh

Plastic and reconstructive surgery
Tim Goodacre

PART SEVEN: HEAD AND NECK

Cranial Neurosurgery
Harry Bulstrode & Liam Gray

The eye and orbit
Keith Martin

Cleft lip and palate: developmental abnormalities of the face, mouth and jaws
David Koppel

The ear, nose and sinuses
Iain J. Nixon, Iain Hathorn & Alex Bennett

Pharynx, larynx and neck
Terry M. Jones

Oral Cavity Cancer
Andrew Schache

Disorders of the salivary glands
Mark McGurk & Leandros Vassiliou

PART EIGHT: BREAST AND ENDOCRINE

The thyroid glands
Iain J. Nixon & Richard Adamson

The parathyroid glands
Ruth Prichard

The adrenal glands and other abdominal endocrine disorders
Tom W.J. Lennard

The breast
Richard C. Sainsbury

PART NINE: CARDIOTHORACIC

Cardiac surgery
Jonathan R. Anderson & Mustafa Zakkar

The thorax
Carol Tan & Ian Hunt

PART TEN: VASCULAR

Arterial disorders
Robert Sayers & Robert Davies

Venous disorders
Ian Chetter & Daniel Carradice

Lymphatic disorders
Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam, Gnaneswar Atturu & David Russell

PART ELEVEN: ABDOMINAL

History and examination of the abdomen
Ronan O’Connell

Abdominal wall, hernia and umbilicus
Bruce Tulloh & Stephen J Nixon

The peritoneum, omentum, mesentery and retroperitoneal space
Charles Knowles

The oesophagus
Derek Alderson

Stomach and duodenum
Timothy Underwood & John N Primrose

Bariatric surgery
Richard Welbourn

The liver
Graeme Poston & Rob Jones

The spleen
O. James Garden

The gall bladder and bile ducts
Kevin Conlon

The pancreas
Satyajit Bhattacharya

The small intestines
Gordon Carlson & Matt Soop

The large intestines
Gordon Carlson & Jonathan Epstein

Intestinal obstruction
Jim Hill

The vermiform appendix
Jurgen Mulsow

The rectum
David Jayne & Hiba Fatayer

The anus and anal canal
Karen Nugent

PART TWELVE: GENITOURINARY

Urinary symptoms and investigations
Kilian Mellon

The kidney and ureters
Kilian Mellon

The urinary bladder
Freddie Hamdy

The prostate and seminal vesicles
David E. Neal & Greg Shaw

Urethra and penis
Ian Eardley

Testis and scrotum
Ian Eardley

Gynaecology
Monica Mittal, Prasanna Raj Supramaniam, & Christian Malti Becker

PART THIRTEEN: TRANSPLANTATION

Transplantation
J. Andrew Bradley

Appendix 1: Common Instruments used in general surgery

Pradip K. Datta

Appendix 2: Basic Aspects in Theatre Design and Sterilisation

Alan Norrish