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Emergency Cross-cover of Surgical Specialties: A Survival Guide

With the introduction of the European Working Time Directive and changes to doctors’ contracts, junior doctors are increasingly expected to cross-cover surgical specialties whilst on-call. Often these are specialties in which they have limited, or no, post-graduate experience. Furthermore, this is often out-of-hours, when senior supervision is less readily available. This survival guide, written by junior doctors for junior doctors, provides a concise and easy to read tool for doctors delivering this care. It covers each surgical speciality in turn, addressing speciality specific emergencies; when to admit patients; and when to call for senior help, as well as offering guidance on common referrals and questions, post-operative complications and common medical emergencies in surgical patients. In addition, it outlines key practical skills often required in surgical specialties, providing a summary of necessary skills and tips and tricks for performing them safely and successfully. Lastly, with increasing availability of high-quality Apps and websites, it summarises key online resources available for junior doctors within surgical specialties. This book is the ideal companion for any junior doctor, or member of the multidisciplinary team, involved in the cross-cover of surgical specialties, helping them to deliver high-quality patient care with confidence.


Robert Miller is a plastic surgery registrar currently working at the Royal London Hospital, London. After graduating from the University of Bristol, UK, with a first-class degree in Neuroscience and an MBChB, he completed his foundation training in Oxford, progressing to surgical training in London. Over this time, he covered at least eight surgical specialties whilst on-call, with varying levels of experience in each. Although still in the early stages of a surgical career, he has published over 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals, has presented work nationally and internationally, authored several book chapters, and taught, tutored, and examined at Oxford University, University College London and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Outside of medicine, he has a strong musical background with a Diploma in Trumpet Performance, and he has published a book to help young players learn trumpet scales using a novel colour-based method using the principles of implicit memory, titled Smarties for Brass.

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ISBN: 1-5275-4334-X

ISBN13: 978-1-5275-4334-8

Release Date: 14th May 2020

Pages: 351

Price: £68.99

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