🦀 Principles of surgery Topics

Principles of Surgery Topics #

Accident and Emergency #

Blast injury
Compartment syndrome
Critically injured patient
Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage
Fat embolism
Foreign bodies in surgery
Imaging in Trauma
Intensive care
Mass disaster - planning
Neck - penetrating injury
Poly trauma
Resuscitation - ATLS, Triage, CPR, MESS
Triage

General Surgery #

Preoperative Preparation and Considerations #

Assessment of fitness for surgery
Consent
Preoperative preparation for surgery
Preparation for surgery - DM, jaundice, HT
Preparations in surgery - Bowel, Thyroid
Screening - principles
Screening for surgical disease

Anesthesia and Pain Management #

Anaesthesia - General
Anaesthesia - Local / blocks
Anaesthesia - methods, and purpose of monitoring during major surgery
Anaesthesia - Regional
Post operative pain

Surgical Techniques and Procedures #

Abdominal incisions
Damage control surgery
Day case surgery
Evolution of inguinal hernia repair
Laparostomy
Minimal access surgery
Surgical access - incisions

Postoperative Care and Complications #

Post operative anuria
Post operative complications
Post operative confusion
Post operative hypoxia
Post operative pyrexia
Post operative urine retention
Post operative jaundice
Wound healing, WT and wound management
Wound infection - post operative

Surgical Equipment and Techniques #

Bloodless operative fields
Diathermy
Drains / drainage
Principles - Laser, Diathermy, Cryotherapy
Prostheses, implants in surgery
Sutures, needles and knots
Tourniquet

Surgical Environments and Safety #

Asepsis in OT / prevention of infection in surgical practice
Asepsis in Surgery - skin preparation, sterilisation
Hazards in OT
Infection risks to the surgeon
Operative theatre design
Wrong site surgery

Special Surgical Considerations #

AIDS and surgery
Alcohol and surgery
Anaemia in surgery
Diabetes and surgery
Hypertension in surgery
Obesity and surgery
Surgery and pregnancy
Surgery in elderly
Surgery in the elderly

Emergency and Critical Care #

Acute abdominal pain
ARDS / SIRS / MODS
Anaphylactic shock - treatment
Post operative pyrexia
Stridor after thyroid surgery

Fluids, Electrolytes, and Nutrition #

Acid base balance
Fluid and electrolyte balance
Nutrition support - enteral
Nutrition support - parenteral

Imaging and Diagnostics #

Imaging in Acute abdomen
Imaging techniques - CT
Imaging techniques - Duplex
Imaging techniques - MRI
Imaging techniques - USS
Imaging techniques - X rays
Radiology - Interventional, principles of CT, MRI, USS

Infection and Antibiotics #

Antibiotics - Policy, Prophylaxis
Extra-pulmonary TB - Cervical LN, intestinal, GUT, spinal, CNS, arthritis, peritonitis
Gas gangrene
Nosocomial infections
Necrotising fasciitis, fournier’s gangrene, Meleny’s gangrene
Tetanus

Specialized Surgical Conditions and Interventions #

Abdominal abscess - intra - principles of management
Abdominal compartment
Breast - benign disease
Burns management
Calculi - GB, Urinary
Care of the terminally ill
Chronic illness, rehabilitation
Dialysis
Fast track surgery
Leprosy - surgical intervention
Vomiting

Miscellaneous Topics #

Blood and blood products
Blood transfusions - massive, hazards
Calcium metabolism
Clinical trials
Duplex scanning in surgery
Evidence based practice
Genetics in surgery
Haemostasis in surgery
Interventional radiology
Metabolic response to trauma / surgery
Nutrition support - enteral
Nutrition support - parenteral
Positioning
Positioning in surgery
Rehabilitation
Smoking and surgery
Sterilisation & disinfection
Surgical audit
Surgical dressings and applications
Tissue culture / cloning - impact in surgery

GI Surgery #

Gastrointestinal (GI) and Colorectal #

Anastomoses - GI, GU, Vascular
Colorectal Emergencies
Colorectal Polyps
Constipation - chronic, childhood
Constipation and diarrhoea
Enterocutaneous fistula
Faecal incontinence
Intestinal failure / short bowel syndrome
Lower GI bleeding
Management of intestinal obstruction
small bowel tumours
Strictures

Biliary and Liver #

Biliary strictures
Hepatorenal failure
Imaging in Biliary disease
Liver disease and surgery
Mirizzi syndrome

Endoscopy and Imaging #

Endoscopic technique
Endoscopy - upper/lower alimentary
Preparation of patients for Ba enema
Preparation of patients for Ba swallow / meal
Preparation of patients for Endoscopy - UGIE/LGIE
Preparation of patients for ERCP

Upper GI #

Helicobacter pylori
Management of strangulated hernia
Oesophageal replacements
Polyps
Post gastrectomy syndromes
Premalignant conditions of the GIT
Upper GI bleeding

Stoma Care #

Stoma care

GU Surgery #

Complications of TURP
Erectile dysfunction
ESWL
Imaging in Urology
Laser, cryotherapy, thermoablation, HIFU
Preparation of patients for IVU
Renal disease and surgery
Scrotal swelling in the adult
Ureteric injuries
Urethral strictures
Urinary retension - acute, chronic

Neurosurgery #

Spinal cord compression

Oncosurgery #

Chemotherapy in malignancy
CUP
Epidemiology of malignancy in SL
FNA, Frozen section, Biopsy
Imaging in Oncology
Malignancy - molecular basis and prevention
Malignant ascites
Metastases - bone, liver
Pain relief in cancer
Palliation in surgery
Paraneoplastic syndrome
Pathogenesis of cancer / carcinogenesis
Pigmented cutaneous lesions
Radiotherapy in malignancy
Specimen handling and fixation
Surgery in Malignancy
Terminal care
Tumour markers

Paediatric surgery #

Abdominal emergencies in new born
Limping child
Talipes equino varus
Transport of a neonate
Vomiting in infants
Vomiting in neonates

Plastic surgery #

Hand infections, injuries
Principles of hand surgery / zones / pulleys
Principles of skin cover
Skin and soft tissue cover

Thoracic #

Respiratory disease in surgery

Vascular surgery #

Arteriography in surgery
Diabetic foot
DVT
limb swelling - unilateral
Preparation of patients for Angiography
Pulmonary embolism
Transplantation -ethical issues
Vascular access / venous access