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The management of injured and acutely unwell paents remains a cornerstone of surgical pracce. Although techniques for assessment, invesgaon and operave management of the emergency surgical paent may be drawn from elecve pracce; they also require expediency of decision making and constant consideraon of both anatomical and physiological pathology. Hamilton Bailey’s Emergency Surgery 14e is the famous textbook of emergency surgery that defines these key principles. Reflecng huge changes in the pracce of emergency and general surgery over recent years, this new edion of Hamilton Bailey's Emergency Surgery is designed to meet the needs of basic and higher surgical trainees. The thorough and diverse coverage of emergency surgical principles including important anaesthec and physiological consideraons and the use of damage control techniques alongside core topics in emergency surgery such as shock and response to injury, surgical infecons, principles of wound management and nutrion ensure that the clinician has evidence-based medicine to rely on. The extensive range of trauma surgery chapters cover all the surgical subspeciales as they relate to emergency surgery providing comprehensive coverage of acute care surgery. The new edion of this highly regarded textbook on emergency surgery provides the necessary knowledge and evidence base to help the on-call surgical trainee through the important decision-making process when treang acute surgical paents. In addion to guidance on relevant invesgaons and surgical techniques, emphasis is also placed on those non-technical skills including leadership and communicaon which are essenal for the management of unwell paents. General surgeons and those working in the emergency seng will benefit from the gold standard experse provided in the 14th edion of Hamilton Bailey's Emergency Surgery