COURSE CONTENT

Surgical Assessment and Management:

• Medical problems in the surgical patient
• Nutrition – Malnutrition
• Wound healing
• Endocrine diseases
• Breast
• Oesophagus
• Stomach – Duodenum
• Small intestine
• Colon and rectum 10 Anus
• Appendix
• Peritoneum – Intraperitoneal infections – Retro peritoneum – Omentium – Mesentery
• Biliary tract
• Portal Hypertension
• Pancreas
• Liver
• Spleen
• Acute Abdomen
• Abdominal wall – Hernias
• Soft tissue – Skin tumors
• Surgical inflections
• Critically -ill patient
• Trauma patients – Pathology
• Burn injuries
• Clinical studies – Interpretation