Cold Steel - A General Surgery Reference Guide in Your Pocket

Designed by surgical trainees and surgeons to help medical students, interns and residents survive their General Surgery rotations. Gives you the information you need to excel in General Surgery!

Fear your General Surgery rotation no more! Cold Steel is here to help.

Includes:

-Guides to surviving and being your best on call, in the OR, in clinic and on morning rounds

-Approaches to the most common problems you'll encounter in the ER, on the wards and in clinic, like appendicitis, post-op fevers and groin hernias

-Easy to follow, step-by-step descriptions of the most common operations in General Surgery, including laparoscopic and open procedures

-Ability to track your surgical cases by procedure, approach, diagnosis, surgeon and more

-An easy guide to the bedside procedures often performed by students, interns and residents, including chest tube insertion and suturing

-Templates for writing admission and post-op orders, histories, progress notes and more

-Tips on performing fast and thorough examination of the abdomen, breast, neck and even the DRE

-Definitions of over 50 useful surgical eponyms

-A note pad to add your own notes as you go through your rotation

-Hand drawn illustrations