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Orthopaedics for undergraduates
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Injure: the British Journal of Accident Surgery Vol. B/No. 2
of artificial ventilation as (medical) first aid for an open pneumothcrax and no warning of the ease with which the right main bronchus can be intubated by the overvigorous. These days one might expect a description of blast lung and its management. Compared with the wealth of information so well presented, however, these omissions are trivial. LEON ABRAMS
Orthopaedics for Undergraduates. By C. J. E. Monk. 21 x 13 cm. Pp. 218findex. 1976. London, Oxford University Press. f3.50. The author has undertaken a difficult task and, on the whole, has succeeded. An attempt has been made to cover all the subjects with which the undergraduate is likely to be confronted in orthopaedics and traumatology. Inevitably in a book of just over 200 pages the coverage of most things is brief. The section on terminology, history and physical examination runs to 14 pages. It is good as far as it goes, but might have been expanded slightly in a book for beginners. The first half of the book is related to general pathology in 14 sections, and the second half to regional conditions. The material is well set out, there is an ample supply of good line drawings and the index is efficient. In some areas the author could have been slightly more generous with references. Beginners will find this book a valuable guide to the subject, particularly when used with other source material. J. C. SCOTT
Publications
Basic Problems in Burns: Proceedings of the Symposium for the Treatment of Burns held in Prague in September, 1973. Edited by R. Vrabec, 2. KoniEkova and J. Moserova. Pp. xi+224 with 62 illustrations and 56 tables. 1975. Berlin, Springer-Verlag; Prague, Avicenum. DM58, USS25. This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in Prague in September 1973 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the Prague Burns Unit. The symposium dealt with four main topics: the surgery of the burn wound; anaesthesiology, resuscitation and intensive care; problems of septicaemia; and complications of the burn illness. Although a few of the papers were presented by speakers from Western Europe and the United States, most of the contributions came from workers in the Eastern bloc countries. These short papers are a good example of the excellent research and clinical work that is being done but which is not as well known or appreciated in the West as it should be. With a few exceptions, the translation of the papers into English is very good. The references are up to date and some of these will be new to the Western reader. There are inevitable difficulties in understanding the use of proprietary preparations which are unfamiliar and in some of the contributions the various hieroglyphics, abbreviations and mathematical formulae are forbidding. But the diagrams are clear, the printing excellent and the book is a concise record of an international meeting that does great credit to the Czechoslovak editors and the Prague Burns Unit. MICHAELN. TEMPEST
Received
Roadsmash rescue is your concern-TracheostomyEvery doctor’s roadsmash drill-Fractures of phalanges of the hand-Advanced first aid; serious injury (taken at the Birmingham Accident Hospital)Equipment for use at roadside accidents. These are a few of the titles of tape-slides and slide teaching sets of interest to readers involved with accident surgery or teaching advanced first aid. For details of their audiovisual library loan service, write to the Medical Recording Service Foundation, PO Box 99, Chelmsford, CM 1 5HL.
Injure: the British Journal of Accident Surgery Vol. B/No. 2
of artificial ventilation as (medical) first aid for an open pneumothcrax and no warning of the ease with which the right main bronchus can be intubated by the overvigorous. These days one might expect a description of blast lung and its management. Compared with the wealth of information so well presented, however, these omissions are trivial. LEON ABRAMS
Orthopaedics for Undergraduates. By C. J. E. Monk. 21 x 13 cm. Pp. 218findex. 1976. London, Oxford University Press. f3.50. The author has undertaken a difficult task and, on the whole, has succeeded. An attempt has been made to cover all the subjects with which the undergraduate is likely to be confronted in orthopaedics and traumatology. Inevitably in a book of just over 200 pages the coverage of most things is brief. The section on terminology, history and physical examination runs to 14 pages. It is good as far as it goes, but might have been expanded slightly in a book for beginners. The first half of the book is related to general pathology in 14 sections, and the second half to regional conditions. The material is well set out, there is an ample supply of good line drawings and the index is efficient. In some areas the author could have been slightly more generous with references. Beginners will find this book a valuable guide to the subject, particularly when used with other source material. J. C. SCOTT
Publications
Basic Problems in Burns: Proceedings of the Symposium for the Treatment of Burns held in Prague in September, 1973. Edited by R. Vrabec, 2. KoniEkova and J. Moserova. Pp. xi+224 with 62 illustrations and 56 tables. 1975. Berlin, Springer-Verlag; Prague, Avicenum. DM58, USS25. This volume contains the proceedings of a symposium held in Prague in September 1973 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the foundation of the Prague Burns Unit. The symposium dealt with four main topics: the surgery of the burn wound; anaesthesiology, resuscitation and intensive care; problems of septicaemia; and complications of the burn illness. Although a few of the papers were presented by speakers from Western Europe and the United States, most of the contributions came from workers in the Eastern bloc countries. These short papers are a good example of the excellent research and clinical work that is being done but which is not as well known or appreciated in the West as it should be. With a few exceptions, the translation of the papers into English is very good. The references are up to date and some of these will be new to the Western reader. There are inevitable difficulties in understanding the use of proprietary preparations which are unfamiliar and in some of the contributions the various hieroglyphics, abbreviations and mathematical formulae are forbidding. But the diagrams are clear, the printing excellent and the book is a concise record of an international meeting that does great credit to the Czechoslovak editors and the Prague Burns Unit. MICHAELN. TEMPEST
Received
Roadsmash rescue is your concern-TracheostomyEvery doctor’s roadsmash drill-Fractures of phalanges of the hand-Advanced first aid; serious injury (taken at the Birmingham Accident Hospital)Equipment for use at roadside accidents. These are a few of the titles of tape-slides and slide teaching sets of interest to readers involved with accident surgery or teaching advanced first aid. For details of their audiovisual library loan service, write to the Medical Recording Service Foundation, PO Box 99, Chelmsford, CM 1 5HL.