The latest edition of Minor Surgery carries on the highly respected tradition of the well known earlier editions in providing a superbly illustrated step-by-step guide to minor surgery. As previously, the book begins by placing minor surgery into context with a description of the setting up, equipping and running of a minor operations facility in a primary health care setting. Methods of anaesthesia follow. The text then goes on to describe over 40 surgical procedures in step-by-step detail, accompanied by colour photographs and line drawings. The authority and clarity of the text owe much to the author's own experience of over 20,000 minor operations. All sections have been revised, some reflect improved techniques and others take into account the wishes of those doctors who undertake more complex minor surgical procedures. The latter are incorporated into the Advanced Minor Surgery section, which includes the technique of radio-surgery. A new chapter on the role of the Practice Nurse/Operating Theatre Assistant is included, acknowledging the vital role they play. Another important new chapter features biopsy techniques, allowing for prompt diagnosis of skin cancer. As a new addition, specialists in their field have been invited to write a chapter giving information on how to improve the results of minor surgery. This Specialist Minor Surgery Section contains contributions from a consultant plastic surgeon, consultant ophthalmologist and dental surgeon.

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.

Excerpt from A Text-Book of Minor Surgery In preparing this "Minor Surgery," it has been my purpose to apply to the less serious, every-day problems of surgical practise the new knowledge which the discoveries of the last twenty-five years have revealed. During this period the advances in diagnosis and treatment have rendered necessary a new surgical literature, and many excellent text-books have appeared, in one, two, and four volumes. In these the more serious surgical conditions are exhaustively discussed, while the treatment of the lesser ailments - the minor surgery which forms the bulk of surgical practise - is condensed into a chapter or two, in which methods of treatment long since outgrown still find their lace. Nor is the importance of minor surgery recognized in the curriculum of our medical schools. And yet this neglected field of minor surgery is the only one into which the average practitioner will ever enter, and is also the one in which most surgeons will find the majority of their patients. What winder then that the physician, untaught and unread in minor surgery fails to achieve good results, and that more bad surgery is performed upon the hand than upon the organs of the abdomen? Impressed by the need of a text-book which describes in detail I he manifold lesser accidents and surgical diseases which the general practitioner is called upon to treat, I commenced eight years ago the preparation of such a book. It has been rewritten several times, until hardly a page of the original manuscript remains; and it appears now in its development, somewhat larger, but the same in purpose as when it was first conceived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.