- Surgical facilities - design, management, equipment and personnel - Sterilization and disinfection - Surgical instruments - materials, manufacture and care - Surgical instruments - types and usage - Suture materials - Surgical staplers - Surgical lasers - Preoperative assessment - Preoperative stabilization - Fluid therapy, and electrolyte and acid-base abnormalities - Shock, sepsis and SIRS - The immune and inflammatory response to anaesthesia and surgery - Postoperative management Principles and practice of analgesia - Principles of nutritional support - Aseptic technique - Healing of elective surgical wounds - Surgical wound infection and antimicrobial prophylaxis - Hospital-acquired infection - Haemostasis and blood component therapy - Principles of operative technique - Suture patterns and surgical knots - Index.