Step Up Surgery David W Mcfadden

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6 of 6 humans found the following review helpful.
Comparative review of ‘NMS surgery’, ‘First Aid for the Surgery Clerkship’, ‘Blueprints Surgery’, and ‘Step-Up to Surgery’
By p53
All these reviews of surgery have chapters for usual surgery, as well as for surgical subspecialties.

‘NMS surgery’, 5th edition (2007), is closely word-by-word reprint of the 4th edition (2000) – only basi chapter, ‘surgical physiology’, was substantially updated; all other chapters are exclusively untouched and all the illustrations are precisely the same; these illustrations are of intermediate quality. So, if you have 4th edition of this book, don’t bother to buy the new one. This book is too elaborate for clerkship, and even more so – for the USMLE Step 2 CK; still, it’s strange that it lacks galore key topics – for example, there is not one thing when it comes to the appendicitis! On the positive side, staged chapters are decent and give you a solid noesis with regards to the subject. This book also holds some case-based MCQs, but they are too short.

‘First Aid for the Surgery Clerkship’ (2003) is almost as elaborated as ‘NMS Surgery’, but it’s more comfortable to read. It’s strange, why they made this book so thick, when ‘First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship’ is so thin – internal medicine is much more indispensable subject for the medical students than surgery. The amount of details makes ‘First Aid for the Surgery Clerkship’ the outstanding resource for clerkship, but it may be too much for the USMLE Step 2 CK. The outside boundary line incorporate mnemonics and exam tips, ward tips, and OR tips, which are very helpful; still, this book could be bettered by adding more ‘patient typical scenarios’ – ‘First Aid for Clerkship’ series do not incorporate MCQs, so this may be a great substitution for them. There are likewise a heap of radiologic images in this book, which are more crucial for the USMLE Step 2 CK, than the illustrations of anatomy and surgical operations. On the negative side, this 1st edition has a lot of glaring typos – for example, colorectal cancer staging is in the chapter for stomach (p.206) – this ought to be bettered for the 2nd edition (2009).

5th edition (2009) of ‘Blueprints Surgery’ is much more expanded and bettered than the former edition of this title – it’s more concise than former two books, and posing no difficulty to read, so it may be more suitable for the medical students who need time-efficient review. I think it holds suitable amount of details for the USMLE Step 2 CK, but it may not be sufficient for clerkship. This edition is also very well illustrated. At the same time, it is focus is defective for shelf exam and for the USMLE Step 2 CK (anatomy and surgical operations rather of the diagnostic approach and the patient management). At the end there is a Q & A section with 100 case based MCQs.

‘Step-Up to Surgery’ – sadly, this title is exclusively not up to par with ‘Step-Up to Medicine’. It’s arid monotonous style is difficult to read and memorize; besides, it severely lacks the depth and details you in truth need to recognise for clerkship, as well as for the USMLE Step 2 CK; Illustrations are also very scanty and they for the most part depict anatomy and surgical operations rather of radiology. This book has two appendices: ‘Next Step Questions’ and ‘Shelf Questions’. The original one is case-based, even though – not in the boards-format. The second one does incorporate MCQs, but galore of them aren’t case-based; both this sections are too brief.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
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By Silverback
I heard step up to medicine is a outstanding book, so I purchased this. Too bad I did. I am on page 3 and have already found 4 errors

1. the 4 in the 4/2/1 rule is veritably for mL, not L.
2. 4/2/1 is for every hour drip, which is not stated, and the rule is lumped with a every day liquid needs paragraph.
3. It is stated the the rule of thumb is 30ml/kg/hr AND 30 ml/kg/day. Which is it?
4. pg1. The calculation for intravascular volume is faulty ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN NOTES. If total body water is .6 of body weight, and extracellular volume is .4 of that, and intravascular is .25 of that, the rectify calculation is 70kg*.6*.4*.25. They left the .6 out. So either their math is wrong or their notes are wrong.

not only that but the explanations are terrible, for example the one for paradoxic aciduria for the duration of a hypokalemic hyponatremia.

I am learning a lot by proofing it though.

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