Before comprehensive domestic texts were widely available, Turkish medical students often relied on translated Western texts—often cumbersome, sometimes culturally detached from the realities of Turkish healthcare infrastructure, and frequently plagued by translation errors.
If you find a free online of the 5th Edition, you are studying surgery from roughly 2015. In a field where staging for colon cancer or management of acute pancreatitis changes every few years, that is risky.
Includes fluid and electrolyte balance, metabolic response to trauma, and wound care.
Authored by leading experts in Turkish surgery under the editorship of Prof. Dr. İskender Sayek.
Tables and algorithms help in clinical decision-making.