Product Description

Approximately 20% of all surgical operations and a similar percentage of surgical emergencies are urological in nature. However, often doctors have very limited experience of the many common and varied conditions encountered in this important surgical specialty. For the doctor or nurse expected to provide the initial assessment and management of a condition with which he or she has had very limited experience, this book provides an invaluable source of information and advice. This applies not only to SHOs and specialist registrars on urology and surgical rotations, but also to General Practitioners, Accident and Emergency staff and the growing number of urological specialist nurses. The Oxford Handbook of Urology, Second edition covers a wide spectrum of diseases and their treatment in the field of urology and surgical aspects of kidney, bladder, prostate and scrotal disorders. It aims to give a brief overview of many different urological subjects including urology emergencies, cancers, infections, children's disorders and kidney stone disease. It is designed so that it can be quickly and efficiently accessed by a range of people involved in patient care, including medical students, nurses, surgical and urology doctors and general practitioners.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #91919 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 816 pages

Customer Reviews

First class book for all urology trainees.
I bought this book like many other candidates for the preparation for the Intercollegiate examinations in Urology. It proved to be one of the best book available in the market. Concise, clear, straight to the point - a must-have for all urology trainees. I would like to thank the editorial team for coming up with this book. Well done!

Review from Urology News, Sep/Oct 2009, Vol 13, No 6
This year's follow-up on the now landmark 2005 first edition provides an excellent update and in my view an improvement on its predecessor. Its stated aims are as ambitious as before: to provide an invaluable source of information and advice for the doctor involved in the initial assessment and management of this important and varied surgical specialty (20% of all surgical emergencies being urological in nature). This applies not only to senior house officer and special registrars in urology / surgery, but also to GPs, Accident and Emergency staff, medical students, and the growing number of urological specialist nurses. All in all this is an easily accessible, pocket-sized textbook - ideal for those still wearing a white coat. And it succeeds. It remains a "compact yet comprehensive guide to the field of urology", covering a wide spectrum of urological diseases, including preliminary investigations, assessment and treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms / bladder outlet obstruction, infection, stone disease, cancers, emergencies, andrology and paediatrics. In addition, it finishes with sections on urological surgery, equipment and basic science. In the classic Oxford Handbook style, it summarises these various topics in two facing pages using bullet pointed information with appropriate illustrations, charts and management pathways, allowing for a "quick resume of the correct approach to diagnosis and management". It features evidence-based guidelines and references which are pretty much up to date in terms of the literature, including NICE 2008 guidelines on prostate cancer. It is no fault of the authors that 2009 has proven to be a busy year in terms of developments in prostate cancer (ERSPC, PLCO) and BPH (REDUCE). On a personal level, having recently sat the FRCS(Urol) with three other colleagues in a study group, I could not speak highly enough of this book as a revision aid. We regularly spent hours constructing model viva answers with an evidence base only to find it equally well or surpassed in the corresponding section in the book. It provided just the right amount of information expected in a 10 minute viva scenario, avoiding the tempting minutiae that invariably never gets asked by an examiner. Are their any faults? Only a few minor ones. Perhaps more information could be provided on anticholinergics in OAB which is surprisingly light given the section on medical therapy for BPH. Whilst the section on continence surgery is pretty detailed, more information on their complications and appropriate percentages would be useful - especially for those heart-sink patients in clinic. A section on transplantation might also have been helpful - if only because it remains `in the syllabus' for the FRCS! PBS/IC could be updated and expanded, including recent ESSIC definitions. Nevertheless, the Oxford Handbook of Urology Second Edition provides a practical, evidence-based overview of the entire field of urology. Whilst it is indeed an excellent source of information for the wide-ranging multidisciplinary audience it seeks to target, we cannot doubt its main readership must be urological trainees with whom it is fast entering cult status (I still lament the theft of my first edition!). It is difficult to beat such a detailed source of information presented in such an accessible manner - ideal not only for exam / viva revision but also for the usual day to day business of clinics, theatre lists and emergencies. As useful today as the Handbook of Medicine was for us as house officers.

Rono Mukherjee, Specialist Registrar in Urology, North West Deanery.