Table of Contents

PART ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLES: The Science of Surgery. Metabolic response to injury. Shock and blood transfusion. Wounds, healing, tissue repair. Tissue engineering and regeneration. Surgical infection. Tropical infections and infestations. Basic surgical skills and anastomoses. Principles of laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Principles of paediatric surgery. Principles of oncology. Surgical audit. Surgical ethics and law. Patient safety and human factors and quality improvement. PART TWO: INVESTIGATION AND DIAGNOSIS. Diagnostic imaging. Gastrointestinal endoscopy. Tissue and Molecular diagnosis. PART THREE: PERIOPERATIVE CARE. Pre-operative preparation and treatment of the High-Risk Surgical Patient. Anaesthesia and pain relief. Nutrition and fluid therapy. Postoperative care. Day case surgery. PART FOUR: TRAUMA. Introduction to trauma. Early assessment and management of trauma. Traumatic Brain Injury. Neck and spine. Maxillofacial trauma. Torso 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. Upper limb. Hip and knee. Foot and ankle. Musculoskeletal tumours. Infection of the bones and joints. Paediatric orthopaedics. PART SIX: SKIN AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE. Skin and subcutaneous tissue. Burns. Plastic and reconstructive surgery. PART SEVEN: HEAD AND NECK. Cranial Neurosurgery. The eye and orbit. Cleft lip and palate: developmental abnormalities of the face, mouth and jaws. The ear, nose and sinuses. Pharynx, larynx and neck. Oral Cavity Premalignancy & Cancer. Disorders of the salivary glands. PART EIGHT: BREAST AND ENDOCRINE. The thyroid glands. 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. Abdominal wall, hernia and umbilicus. The peritoneum, omentum, mesentery and retroperitoneal space. The oesophagus. Stomach and duodenum. Bariatric surgery. The liver. The spleen. The gall bladder and bile ducts. The pancreas. The small intestines. The large intestines. Intestinal obstruction. The vermiform appendix. The rectum. The anus and anal canal. PART TWELVE: GENITOURINARY. Urinary symptoms and investigations. The kidney and ureters. The urinary bladder. The prostate and seminal vesicles. Urethra and penis. Testis and scrotum. Gynaecology. PART THIRTEEN: TRANSPLANTATION. Transplantation. Appendix 1: Common Instruments used in general surgery. Appendix 2: Basic Aspects in Theatre Design and Sterilisation.

About the Author

Professor Sir Norman Williams, MS FRCS FMedSci FRCP FRCP(Ed) FRCA FDS(Hon) FACS(Hon) FRCS(I)(Hon) FRCS(Ed)(Hon) Senior Clinical Advisor to the Secretary of State for Health, Past President, The Royal College of Surgeons of England 2011–2014, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Professor Sir Norman Williams was until recently Professor of Surgery at Barts and The London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry and Director of the National Centre for Bowel Research and Surgical Innovation (1986-2016) and retains the title of Emeritus Professor of Surgery. He trained in London, Bristol, Leeds and Los Angeles His main clinical interests have been sphincter preservation and reconstructive colorectal surgery, and his scientific interests concentrated on GI motility and anorectal physiology. He is now the Senior Clinical Advisor to the Secretary of State for Health and on the Board of St George’s NHS Foundation Trust Hospital.

He has been President of the Society of Academic & Research Surgery, President of The Ileostomy & Internal Pouch Support Group, Chairman of the UKCCCR committee on Colorectal Cancer, President of European Digestive Surgery, President of The International Surgical Group and Vice Chairman of The British Journal of Surgery. He was on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2005 and became President in 2011-14.

Professor Williams is co-author of Surgery of the Anus, Rectum and Colon and was a founding trustee and Chairman of Bowel & Cancer Research and is now the President of this charity. He has been joint editor of Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of Surgery since the 22nd Edition. He was knighted for services to surgery in 2015.

Professor P. Ronan O’Connell, MD FRCS(I) FRCPS(Glas) FRCS(Ed) Head of Section of Surgery and Surgical Specialties, University College Dublin, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Professor P. Ronan O’Connell is Head of Surgical Specialties at the UCD School of Medicine, Dublin Ireland and Consultant Surgeon at St Vincent’s University Hospital Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1979 and trained as general surgeon with sub-specialty interest in Coloproctology. Having completed a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA, he spent time as a Senior Lecturer with Professor Sir Norman Williams at the Royal London Hospital. He was appointed consultant surgeon at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital Dublin in 1990 where he served until his current appointment in 2007.

Professor O’Connell has served as an editor of the British Journal of Surgery and associate editor of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. He has been editor in chief for the European Surgical Association and joint editor of Bailey and Love’s Short Practice of Surgery for the 25th, 26th and now 27th editions, having contributed chapters to the 23rd and 24th editions. Apart from his editing, Prof O’Connell is widely published in the areas of IBD, colorectal cancer and pelvic floor physiology. He is a Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and holds ad hominum fellowships of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Royal Colleges. He is a past President of the European Society of Coloproctology and honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

Professor Andrew W. McCaskie, MMus MD FRCS FRCS (T&O) Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Honorary Consultant, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

Professor Andrew McCaskie is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery at the University of Cambridge. He trained in Leeds, Leicester and Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery until moving to Cambridge in 2013. His clinical interest is the lower limb, and particularly the treatment of osteoarthritis, seeking to develop repair and regenerative therapies at early stages of disease. He is the Director of the Arthritis Research UK Tissue Engineering Centre which brings together UK clinicians, engineers and biologists to develop stem and stromal cell therapy for early osteoarthritis.

He has been the President of the British Orthopaedic Research Society, member of the Council of Management of The British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery, and member of Council of the British Orthopaedic Association. He is currently the Director of the Academic Foundation Programme in Cambridge and is widely published, including papers in The Lancet and Nature Genetics.

Reviews

This book simply smacks of class; I have had the privilege of reviewing the hardback edition which is a robust and physically heavy book. This is a powerful heavyweight textbook that seems to cover most surgical specialties and is suitable for a global audience. Even better, its appeal is widespread throughout various sectors of the medical and surgical community. If you are a practicing physician and just need one surgical textbook as a reference source for your personal or departmental library, this excellent book could fit the bill. It is also very useful for the undergraduate or postgraduate medic no matter where you are in the world. So it is very adaptable to a number of end users.
Dr Harry Brown, Glycosmedia, May 2018, Full review: http://www.glycosmedia.com/bailey-and-loves-short-practice-of-surgery-2/This is a high-quality book on an international level that provides significant additional illustrations and discussion of problems encountered. It is thus a highly valuable resource for students, residents, and surgeons who will be practicing outside the U.S. (or doing surgical volunteerism). There is nothing comparable to the Bailey textbooks. This 27th edition nicely updates and enhances information from the 26th edition, while remaining true to the purpose of the original.
Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, MBA (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)

This book simply smacks of class; I have had the privilege of reviewing the hardback edition which is a robust and physically heavy book. This is a powerful heavyweight textbook that seems to cover most surgical specialties and is suitable for a global audience. Even better, its appeal is widespread throughout various sectors of the medical and surgical community. If you are a practicing physician and just need one surgical textbook as a reference source for your personal or departmental library, this excellent book could fit the bill. It is also very useful for the undergraduate or postgraduate medic no matter where you are in the world. So it is very adaptable to a number of end users.Dr Harry Brown, Glycosmedia, May 2018, Full review: http://www.glycosmedia.com/bailey-and-loves-short-practice-of-surgery-2/This is a high-quality book on an international level that provides significant additional illustrations and discussion of problems encountered. It is thus a highly valuable resource for students, residents, and surgeons who will be practicing outside the U.S. (or doing surgical volunteerism). There is nothing comparable to the Bailey textbooks. This 27th edition nicely updates and enhances information from the 26th edition, while remaining true to the purpose of the original.
Carol Scott-Conner, MD, PhD, MBA (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)