<p><i>Ellis and Calne¿s Lecture Notes in General Surgery</i> is a comprehensive guide that focuses on the fundamentals of general surgery while systematically covering all the clinical surgical problems that a student or doctor in training may encounter and about which they need to know.</p><p>The text includes principles of treatment that have been written at a level to inform the medical student and doctor in training. The text features color illustrations throughout and includes electronic access to a wide range of extra material including case studies, radiological and clinical images, and biographies.</p><p>Sample topics discussed in <i>Ellis and Calne¿s Lecture Notes in General Surgery</i> include:</p><ul><li>Surgical strategy, human factors in surgery, fluid and nutrition management, preoperative assessment, postoperative complications, acute infections, tumours, and shock</li><li>Trauma surgery, burns, the skin and its adnexae, arterial disease, the heart and thoracic aorta, an