All I can say Richard....you are great!!!!!!
Basem.
Dr Basem A Khalil MBBS MRCS(Edinburgh) FRCS(Paed Surg)
Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Surgery
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
Manchester, UK
To: paediatricsurgerytrainees@yahoogroups.com
From: richard.lindley@...
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:37:04 +0000
Subject: [paediatricsurgerytrainees] Oxford Handbook of Poediatric Surgery
Is it just me, or is anyone else out there getting really annoyed at the number of innacuracies and misprints in our new, officaly BAPS endorsed handbook?
I bought it in a fit of exam induced desperation, but have now started to compile a list of mistakes, including but not limited to:
page 12 stats - misprint sensitivity for specificty (table 1.2)
page 13 - -ve liklihood ratio wrong, should be 1-sensitivty, not specificty
page 13 - worked example epic fail (e.g. 21/21 + 4 = 84%!)
page 95 fluids - lists 5% destrose and 1/4 N slaine as an acceptable fluid - (a) has anyone ever seen 1/4 N saline as opposed to 1/5, and (b) why no mention of the NPSA guidelines which render such fluids obsolete, and why no recommendation for NPSA defined isotonic fluids in perioperative patients?
page 138 - Ramstedt pyloromyotomy first described 1907 - surely 1912?
Also again lists 0.45% saline as a maintenance fluid - NPSA would not sanction use in replacing deficit/perioperati
page 379 (not reading in order!) trauma fluid bolus stated as 20mls/kg rather than APLS 10ml/kg /reasses/ 10ml/kg
In the interests of accuracy and controlling my blood pressure, would people be interested in compiling a list that can be forwarded for the 2nd edition?
One other alternative that did spring to mind was to stop stressing and go out and get a life, but this does not appear to be working at present...
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