Dr. Pestana’s Surgery Notes: Top 180 Vignettes for the Surgical Wards

DrPestana's Surgery Notes

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ISBN 13:h9781506208541

Imprint:hKaplan Publishing

Language:hEnglish

Authors:hCarlos Pestana

Pub Date:h04/2017

Pages:h256

Illus:hIllustrated

Weight:h200.00 grams

Size:h132 x 203 mm

Product Type:hSoftcover

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  • • Celebrated by medical students for over a decade and meticulously updated, Dr. Pestana's Surgery Notes is the highest-yield surgery review for the shelf and USMLE Step 2 CK exams.
  • • Surgical clerkship allows senior medical students to develop clinical skills and gain a better understanding of surgical disease while caring for patients. But time in the wards is limited, and clerkship covers only a tiny sample of the surgical universe.
  • • Dr. Pestana's Surgery Notes: Top 180 Vignettes for the Surgical Wards, by distinguished surgery instructor Dr. Carlos Pestana, contains the surgery knowledge you need to excel on the surgery shelf exam and USMLE Step 2 CK.
  • • Concise high-yield review of core surgery material
  • * 180 vignettes for self-testing, now even more challenging and exam-like
  • * 10 brief essays providing a surgical perspective on selected tools from the diagnostic and therapeutic armamentarium
  • * Used and trusted by med students for over a decade
  • * Revised and fully up-to-date
  • * Pocket-sized to carry with you in the wards Kaplan regularly reviews and revises content to ensure that we are providing the most up-to-date prep, realistic practice materials, and the most current test information
  • Carlos Pestana, MD, PhD, is emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. Ranked #1 in his medical school class, Dr. Pestana has a doctorate in surgery from the University of Minnesota and did a 5-year surgical residency at the Mayo Clinic. He has received over 40 teaching awards and prizes for teaching excellence. In the early 1990s he was a member of the Comprehensive Part II Committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners that designed what is now the clinical component of the USMLE Step 2 exam. Dr. Pestana is also the author of Fluids and Electrolytes in the Surgical Patient, which has been translated into Spanish, Italian, and Greek.
  • Preface
  • Section 1: Surgery Review
  • Chapter 1: Trauma Initial Survey (the ABCs) Airway Breathing Shock Massive Bleeding A review trom head to Toe Head Trauma Neck Trauma Spinal Cord Injuries Chest Trauma Abdominal Trauma Pelvic Fractured Burns Bites and Stings
  • Chapter 2: Orthopedics Disorders in Children Tumors General Orthopedics
  • Chapter 3: Pre-Op and Post-Op Care
  • Chapter 4: General Surgery
  • Chapter 5: Pediatric Surgery
  • Chapter 6: Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • Chapter 7: Vascular Surgery
  • Chapter 8: Skin Surgery
  • Chapter 9: Ophthalmoligy
  • Chapter 10: Otolaryngology (ENT)
  • Chapter 11: Neurosurgery
  • Chapter 12: Urology
  • Chapter 13: Organ Transplantation
  • Section II: Practice Questions
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