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 2006, the annually updated print version, which is updated with 40 percent new or revised materials and includes a free 3-month 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 800-568-7281 (US and Canada) or 905-522-7017 (International); fax us at 905-522-7839; or e-mail us at acssurgery@bcdecker.com.

ACS Surgery: Principles & Practice

Editorial Board: Wiley W. Souba, MD, ScD, FACS, Editorial Vice Chair; Mitchell P. Fink, 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. There's no need to reorder each year. Instead, if you want to preview the new annual edition and continue your www.acssurgery.com access, do nothing. We'll send you the new annual edition as soon as it's available. If you decide you don't want to preview the new edition or if you no longer want to subscribe, the advance notice makes it easy for you to let us know. In any case, you'll have 30 days to decide.

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