Core topics in general and emergency surgery

Evaluation of surgical evidence -- Perioperative care and enhanced recovery -- Organisation of emergency general surgical services -- Patient assessment and surgical risk -- Perioperative and intensive care management of the surgical patient -- Surgical nutrition -- Abdominal hernias -- Neck surgery for the general surgeon -- Human factors and patient safety in surgery -- Principles of organ donation and general surgery in the transplant patient -- Early assessment of the acute abdomen -- Perforation of the upper gastrointestinal tract -- Acute non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding -- Pancreaticobiliary emergencies -- Acute conditions of the small bowel and appendix -- Colonic emergencies -- Anorectal emergencies -- Paediatric surgical emergencies -- Management of trauma for the general surgeon -- Abdominal sepsis and abdominal compartment syndrome -- Complications of bariatric surgery presenting to the general surgeon and considerations for the general surgeon when operating on the obese patient."

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