Current, Practical Resource of Surgical Best Practices
An official American College of Surgeons publication, ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice offers authoritative recommendations on current surgical care from over 200 master surgeons. Organized in a "body-system" format, ACS Surgery "thinks like a surgeon," guiding you quickly to trustworthy recommendations to aid you in surgical decision making.
Other features:
- Continually updated with the latest standards of technique and practice.
- More than 100 decision-making algorithms diagram the diagnostic and therapeutic pathways for virtually every condition of interest to general surgeons.
- Over 1,500 superb drawings, graphs, and photos, many in four color, highlight key points and enhance your understanding.
- A convenient and economical online self-assessment CME program that enables you to earn, on your own schedule, up to 60 hours of Category 1 CME credit a year—enough to satisfy the new Maintenance of Certification requirements of the ABS! (Nominal processing fee applies.)
- What's New in ACS Surgery, a FREE monthly e-newsletter that highlights new information and brings you one-of-a-kind commentaries of clinical importance written by prominent surgical colleagues.
- And ACS members receive discounts on all formats!
ACS Surgery is available in several formats: the online version, updated each month; a CD-ROM version with optional quarterly updates; and ACS Surgery, 3rd Edition, the updated print version, which is updated with 40 percent new or revised materials and includes a free trial to the online version.
To subscribe to ACS Surgery at member prices or to see the table of contents, a sample chapter and CME test, and the list of editors and contributors, please visit www.acssurgery.com. You may also call our Customer Service representatives at 855-647-6511 (US and
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ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice
Editorial Board: Stanley W. Ashley, MD, FACS, Editorial Vice Chair; Philip S. Barie, MD, FACS; William G. Cance, MD, FACS; Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD, FACS; Larry R. Kaiser, MD, FACS; William H. Pearce, MD, FACS; John H. Pemberton, MD, FACS; Nathaniel J. Soper, MD, FACS.
Council of Founding Editors: Douglas W. Wilmore; MD, FACS; Murray F. Brennan, MD, FACS; Laurence Y. Cheung, MD, FACS; Alden H. Harken, MD, FACS; James W. Holcroft, MD, FACS; Jonathan L. Meakins, MD, FACS.
Convenient update service: Subscribers to the print version of ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice receive notice of future annual editions about two months before publication.
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Revised September 27, 2011