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BOOK REVIEW 1

Plastic Surgery Survival Guide to Trauma,Amir Nakhdjevani, Richard Baker, Hootan Ahmadi,Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2007,Paperback, 136 pages, with 72 colour illustrations,£24.95.

Plastic Surgery Survival Guide to Trauma is a long-awaited and welcome introductory book for trainees tothe field of plastic surgery. It is written by three Britishjunior trainees in plastic surgery who have clearlyrecognised a need for such an essential book. Unfortu-nately, as plastic surgery is considered to be largelya postgraduate specialty, teaching of its fundamentalprinciples are often neglected at an undergraduate level.This book is a most appropriate means of bridging the gapin knowledge and practical skills required by juniortrainees in plastic surgery as well as undergraduatemedical students. As a trainee plastic surgeon on-call,the majority of referrals of patients are the result oftrauma and unsurprisingly this subject matter alsoensures that this book is suitable for trainees in emer-gency medicine, orthopaedics and trauma and generalpractice.

The book covers the most common clinical problemsencountered by the trainee in plastic surgery. Its fourchapters are accordingly divided into the followingsubjects: all aspects of hand trauma, including penetrat-ing foreign bodies, bite wounds and deliberate self harmas well as consent for hand surgery, infections, burns,facial and lower limb trauma and miscellaneous subjects,such as minor operations, ward problems and thedressing clinic. The chapter about hand trauma summa-rises the fundamental hand and wrist anatomy and their

clinical examination and how to perform local anaesthe-sia nerve blocks. The techniques are concisely explainedand well-illustrated in stages.

It is superbly illustrated with colour line art and colourphotographs and its text is concisely and clearly written.A useful feature is the ‘Key management boxes’ thathighlight essential management issues. My impression isthat the authors have carefully considered what type ofbook they would have wished for during the early part oftheir training and they have strived to achieve this. Theyhave drawn from a wealth of experience gained fromtheir ‘apprenticeships’ to senior colleagues to whomthey dedicate a moving and grateful acknowledgement. Iconclude that they have achieved their objective toproduce a book rich in essential knowledge with real andpractical advice and solutions. I commend this book to alljunior trainees in plastic surgery, those in the alliedsurgical specialties and medical students. I predict thiswill become the new must-have ‘Bible’ of the FoundationDoctors and ST1 trainees who shall rotate througha plastic surgery training post.

Roger StevensDepartment of Physiology,

Human Anatomy and Genetics,University of Oxford, Le Gros Clark Building,

South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UKE-mail address: rjgs@doctors.org.uk

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