Top 100 Secrets

I. General Topics

1. Are You Ready for Your Surgical Rotation?

2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

3. How to Treat All Cardiac Dysrhythmias

4. How to Think about Shock

5. Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) and Pulmonary Insufficiency

6. Mechanical Ventilation

7. Why Get Arterial Blood Gases?

8. Fluids, Electrolytes, Gatorade, and Sweat

9. Nutritional Assessment, Parenteral, and Enteral Nutrition

10. What Does Postoperative Fever Mean?

11. Surgical Wound Infection

12. Priorities in Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen

13. Surgical Infectious Disease

14. Risks of Blood-Borne Disease

15. Septis

16. Frailty

II. Trauma

1. Initial Assessment

2. Posttraumatic Hemorrhagic Shock

3. Traumatic Brain Injury

4. Spinal Cord Injuries

5. Penetrating Neck Trauma

6. Blunt Thoracic Trauma

7. Penetrating Thoracic Trauma

8. Blunt Abdominal Trauma

9. Penetrating Abdominal Trauma

10. Hepatic and Biliary Trauma

11. Splenic Trauma

12. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injury

13. Trauma to the Colon and Rectum

14. Pelvic Fractures

15. Upper Urinary Tract Injuries

16. Lower Urinary Tract Injury and Pelvic Trauma

17. Extremity Vascular Injuries

18. Facial Lacerations

19. Maxillofacial Trauma

20. Basic Care of Hand Injuries

21. Burns

22. Pediatric Trauma

III. Abdominal Surgery

1. Appendicitis

2. Gallbladder Disease

3. Pancreatic Cancer

4. Acute Pancreatitis

5. Diagnosis and Therapy of Chronic Pancreatitis

6. Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices

7. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

8. Esophageal Cancer

9. Acid-Peptic Ulcer Disease

10. Small Bowel Obstruction

11. Intestinal Ischemia

12. Diverticular Disease of the Colon

13. Acute Large Bowel Obstruction

14. Inflammatory Bowel Disease

15. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

16. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

17. Colorectal Polyps

18. Colorectal Carcinoma

19. Anorectal Disease

20. Inguinal Hernia

21. Bariatric Surgery

IV. Endocrine Surgery

1. Hyperparathyroidism

2. Hyperthyroidism

3. Thyroid Nodules and Cancer

4. Surgical Hypertension

5. Adrenal Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy Incidentaloma

V. Breast Surgery

1. Breast Masses

2. Primary Therapy for Breast Cancer

VI. Other Cancers

1. What Is Cancer?

2. Melanoma

3. Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer

4. Parotid Tumors

5. Neck Masses

VII. Vascular Surgery

1. What Is Atherosclerosis?

2. Arterial Insufficiency

3. Carotid Disease

4. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

5. Venous Disease

6. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory

VIII. Cardiothoracic Surgery

1. Coronary Artery Disease

2. Mitral Stenosis

3. Mitral Regurgitation

4. Aortic Valvular Disease

5. Thoracic Surgery for Non-Neoplastic Disease

6. Lung Cancer

7. Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

8. Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm

IX. Pediatric Surgery

1. Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis

2. Intestinal Obstruction of Neonates and Infants

3. Tracheoesophageal Malformations

4. Tracheoesophageal Malformations

5. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

6. Abdominal Tumors

7. Congenital Cysts and Sinuses of the Neck

X. Transplantation

1. Liver Transplantation

2. Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation

3. Heart Transplantation

4. Mechanical Circulatory Support

5. Lung Transplantation

6. Penile and Scrotal Urologic Emergencies

7. Urolithiasis

XI. Urology

1. Renal Cell Carcinoma

2. Bladder Cancer

3. Prostate Cancer

4. Urodynamics and Voiding Dysfunction

5. Pediatric Urology

XII. Health Care

1. Can Health Care Be Reformed?

2. Ethics in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

3. Professionalism

4. Required Reading