The 28th edition of Bailey & Love's Short Practice of Surgery is the leading surgical resource for medical students and surgeons in training. It encompasses the basic principles of careful history taking, observation, deductive reasoning, technical knowledge and post-operative patient care to ensure safe surgical practice.

PART ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLES . Metabolic response to injury. Shock, haemorrhage and transfusion. Wound healing and tissue repair. Tissue engineering and regenerative Therapies. Surgical infection. Tropical infections and infestations. Basic surgical skills. Diagnostic imaging. Gastrointestinal endoscopy. Principles of minimal access surgery. Principles of oncology. Surgical audit and research. Ethics and law in surgical practice. Human factors, patient safety and quality improvement. Global Health and surgery. PART TWO: GENERAL PAEDIATRICS. Paediatric surgery.Neonatal Surgery. Trauma in children. Paediatric Urology. PART THREE: PERIOPERATIVE CARE Pre-operative care including the high-risk patient. Day case surgery. Anaesthesia and pain relief. Post-operative care including perioperative optimisation.Nutrition and fluid therapy PART FOUR: TRAUMA Introduction to trauma. Early assessment and management of sever trauma. Traumatic brain injury. Torso and pelvic trauma. The neck and spine. Maxillofacial trauma. Extremity trauma. Disaster surgery. Conflict Surgery. PART FIVE: ELECTIVE ORTHOPAEDICS History taking and clinical examination in musculoskeletal disease. Sports medicine and sports injuries. The spine. The upper limb. The hip. The knee. The foot and ankle. Musculoskeletal tumours. Infection of the bones and joints. Paediatric orthopaedics PART SIX: SKIN, PLASTIC and RECONSTRUCTIVE Skin and subcutaneous tissue. Burns. Plastic and reconstructive surgery PART SEVEN: HEAD AND NECK Cranial Neurosurgery. The eye and orbit. Developmental abnormalities of the face mouth and jaws: cleft lip & palate. The ear, nose and sinuses. The pharynx, larynx and neck. Oral cavity cancer. Disorders of the salivary glands PART EIGHT: ENDOCRINE and BREAST. The thyroid gland. The parathyroid glands.The adrenal glands and other abdominal endocrine disorders. The breast. PART NINE: CARDIOTHORACIC Cardiac surgery. The thorax PART TEN: VASCULAR Arterial disorders. Venous disorders.Lymphatic Disorders. PART ELEVEN: ABDOMINAL History and examination of the abdomen. The abdominal wall, hernia and umbilicus. The peritoneum, mesentery, greater omentum and retroperitoneal space. The oesophagus. The stomach and duodenum. Bariatric and metabolic surgery. The liver. The spleen. The gall bladder and bile ducts. The pancreas. Functional disorders of the intestine. The small intestines. Inflammatory bowel disease. The vermiform appendix. The large intestine. Intestinal obstruction. The rectum. The anus and anal canal. PART TWELVE: GENITOURINARY Urinary symptoms and investigations. The kidney and ureter. The urinary bladder. The prostate and seminal vesicles. The urethra and penis. The testis and scrotum. Gynaecology. PART THIRTEEN: TRANSPLANTATION Kidney transplantation and the principles of transplantation. Liver transplantation. Pancreas transplantation. Intestinal and multivisceral transplantation.