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Recommended reading

Recommended reading information for Vascular Surgery (SSE in Vascular Surgery) Examination candidates.

Anatomy

  • Last's Anatomy, Regional and Applied, 9th Edition (Revised), 2019- McMinn R.M.H., Churchill Livingstone
  • Wheater's Functional Histology 6th Edition, 2014 - Young, B., Lowe, J. S., Stevens, A., and Heath, J.W., Churchill Livingstone
  • Langman’s Medical Embryology, 10th Edition, 2006 – Sadler T.W., Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
  • Color Atlas of Anatomy, 8th Ed. 2014, - Rohen, J.W. & Lutjen Drecoll, E., Williams & Wilkins
  • Anatomic Exposures in Vascular Surgery, 3rd Edition, 2013 – R James Valentine, Gary G Wind

Pathology

  • Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 10th Edition - Kumar, Abbas, AK; Fausto, N., Elsevier Saunders International

Physiology

  • Wests Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials, 10th Edition - West, J.B., Lipincott, Williams and Wilkins
  • Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th Edition - Barrett, K. E., Barman, S. M., Boitana, S. Brooks, H.L
  • Textbook of Medical Physiology, 13th Edition - Guyton and Hall

 

  • Rang and Dale's Pharmacology 9th Edition, 2019 - Rang.HP; Dale MM; Ritter JM; and Moore PK Churchill Livingstone
  • Opie's Cardiovascular Drugs 9th Edition, 2021 - Deepak L. Bhatt 
  • Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Approach 3rd Edition - Yung A et al (eds).
  • Mechanisms of Vascular Disease - Robert Fitridge and Matthew Thompson
  • The Physics and Technology of Diagnostic Ultrasound, 2nd Edition, 2020 -  Dr Robert Gill
  • Vascular Ultrasound How, Why and When, 3rd Edition, 2010 – Thrush, A. and Hartshone, T., Elsevier
  • Introduction to Vascular Ultrasonography 7th Edition, Pellerito, J. and Polak, J.
  • Rutherford’s Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery, 10th Edition – Sidway, A.N., Perler, B.A. Elsevier

AHA/ACC guidelines: Circulation 2014 (PDF 1.89MB)

CARP: McFalls et al NEJM 2004 (PDF 101.27KB)

COURAGE: Boden et al, NEJM 2007 (PDF 298.17KB)

The RACS Library has many of the recommended books and journals online on the Trainee resources page.

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