Comprehensive textbook with bodysystem organization

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Quick Facts

• Comprehensive textbook with body-system
  organization
• The first ONLINE comprehensive surgery reference
• Continually updated
• Available in print, CD, and online

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Formats
Continual updates
Frequent updates
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Credible

• Official publication of the largest surgical
  organization in the world
• Evidence-based best surgical practices
• Written and edited by senior experts and leaders
  in new procedures
• 18 years of editorial excellenceformerly
  published as Scientific American Surgery

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Current

• Continually updated online
• Updated quarterly on CD and every 3 years in
  bound edition
• Published online first
• Updates are integrated into text, with
  replacement of entire chapter, rather than
  tacked on at the end
• New edition in July of 2007 with over 40 new or
  revised content

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Convenient

• Written for the practicing surgeonto the point,
  practical recommendations and explanations
• Consistent format for quick access to the details
  in print or online, with key steps and potential
  problems clearly outlined
• Over 1,500 full-color illustrations and
  decision-tree algorithms clarify operative steps
  and warnings
• Body-system and problem-solving organization well
  suited to ways patients present

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Comprehensive

• Over 1,500 pages cover common problems and
  current surgical techniques and procedures
• Both problem and procedural chapters
• All new section on key topics relating to health
  care reform, patient safety, and malpractice
  avoidance
• References for additional resources, including
  links in online edition
• Print-friendly PDFs from CD or Online
• Monthly FREE e-newsletter summarizes Whats New
  in ACS Surgery

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Summary of Strengths

• Credibility of the ACS and top editorial board
• Updated monthly onlinemore current than
  competitors even at publication date updates
  are integrated into text
• Easy to understand, with heavy use of detailed
  illustrations and valuable decision algorithms
• Practical, step-by-step recommendations, rather
  than academic approach
• Currently the only general surgery text with
  online licensing
• New edition published in July 2007

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Pricing(in US Dollars)