Oxford Textbook of Paediatric Surgery

Paul Johnson is Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Islet Transplant Programme. Paul qualified in Medicine from the University of Leicester and trained in Paediatric Surgery in Oxford, Melbourne and Great Ormond Street. His particular clinical interests are paediatric and endocrine surgery, and cell transplantation. Research interests include optimising human islet isolation, and understanding normal pancreatic development and islet neogenesis. Paul was awarded a Hunterian Professorship from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for this research in 1998. He is currently Immediate Past President of the International Pancreas and Islet Association (IPITA) having served as President from 2011-2013 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The American Academy of Paediatrics in February 2010. I currently sit on a number of Research Boards and Editorial Boards.Spencer Beasley has worked as a paediatric surgeon and paediatric urologist first at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne until 1996, and then in Christchurch, NZ where he set up a regional paediatric surgical service for the South Island and more recently, the Wellington region. He has a long-standing interest in oesophageal atresia and testicular descent and led an active research team looking at the role of sonic hedgehog in both foregut and hindgut development until thwarted by the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010. He is a former President of the Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Australian and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons and Vice-President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.Eleri Cusick qualified and completed initial surgical training in Aberdeen. Following this she moved to a career registrar post at Birmingham Children's Hospital. She worked as a senior registrar in Leeds and spent 12 months in Nancy, France before obtaining a consultant post in Paediatric Surgery at Bristol Children's Hospital where she worked from 1994 -2021. Her clinical interests included upper and lower gastrointestinal surgery in addition to neonatal surgery. She had a particular interest in teaching and training, serving on the BAPS Education Committee and the Specialist Advisory Committee on Training Education. She has been involved in the Intercollegiate Exam since 2003, serving as the Chair of the Paediatric Surgery Intercollegiate Board from 2020-2023.

• Section 1: The fundamentals 1.1: Spencer W. Beasley: Clinical and operative decision making in paediatric surgical practice 1.2: Charles Foster: Ethical and legal aspects of paediatric surgery 1.3: Richard Rogers and Naresh Rughooputh: Anaesthesia and ventilation 1.4: Peter A. Stoddart: Perioperative pain management 1.5: Agostino Pierro and Simon Eaton: Nutrition and total parenteral nutrition 1.6: Rebecca Smith and Brent McSharry: The critically unwell child 1.7: Chris Driver: Principles of operative surgery 1.8: Suren Arul and James Bennett: Central venous access in childhood 1.9: Spencer W. Beasley: Professionalism and leadership Section 2: Neonatal 2.1: Warwick Teague: Overview of embryology 2.2: Charley Keys: Antenatal diagnosis, counselling, and intervention 2.3: Bronwyn Dixon: Physiology of the neonate 2.4: Sean Marven: Abdominal wall defects 2.5: Paul D. Losty: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia 2.6: Spencer W. Beasley: Oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula 2.7: Alexander Cho and Paolo De Coppi: Conditions of the stomach 2.8: Josh Sommovilla and Brad Warner: Congenital duodenal obstruction 2.9: Kokila Lakhoo: Necrotising enterocolitis 2.10: Janet McNally: Meconium ileus and meconium plug 2.11: Dermot Thomas McDowell and Jonathan Karpelowsky: Small bowel and colonic atresia 2.12: Anthony Lander: Intestinal malrotation and volvulus 2.13: Lewis Spitz: Duplications of the gastrointestinal tract 2.14: Craig A. McBride: Vitellointestinal malformations 2.15: Simon Kenny: Hirschsprung disease 2.16: Richard J. Wood and Marc A. Levitt: Anorectal malformations Section 3: Head and neck 3.1: Michael Nightingale: Midline neck swellings 3.2: Sebastian King: Lateral neck lumps 3.3: Radu Miha, Tracey Lam, and Paul R. V. Johnson: Thyroid and parathyroid 3.4: Bhanumathi Lakshminarayanan and Mervyn Griffiths: Miscellaneous head and neck pathology Section 4: Thoracic and breast 4.1: David C. G. Crabbe: Congenital lung malformations 4.2: Philip Morreau: Empyema 4.3: Alex Audist and Carolyn Russell: Chest wall deformities 4.4: David C. G. Crabbe: Tracheomalacia 4.5: Patrick H. Y. Chung and Kenneth K. Y. Wong: Inhaled foreign bodies 4.6: Pankaj Roy: Breast disorders in children Section 5: Upper and lower gastrointestinal 5.1: Paul R. V. Johnson and Spencer W. Beasley: Abdominal pain 5.2: Paul R. V. Johnson, Spencer W. Beasley, and Eleri Cusick: Vomiting in children 5.3: Bruce Jaffray: Gastro-intestinal bleeding 5.4: Jim Bruce: Pyloric stenosis 5.5: Joe Curry: Achalasia 5.6: Russell Taylor: Paediatric oesophageal foreign bodies 5.7: Eleri Cusick: Gastro-oesophageal reflux 5.8: Simon Chapman and Ashish Desai: Bariatric surgery in children 5.9: Hugh W. Grant: Adhesive small bowel obstruction 5.10: Ingo Jester: Intestinal failure 5.11: Eleri Cusick: Inflammatory bowel disease 5.12: Ian Sugarman: Intestinal polyps 5.13: Jonathan Sutcliffe: Constipation 5.14: Alex C. H. Lee: Intussusception 5.15: Eleri Cusick and Spencer W. Beasley: Acute appendicitis 5.16: Michael Stanton: Acquired anorectal disorders Section 6: Hepato-biliary and spleen 6.1: Mark Davenport: Biliary atresia 6.2: Spencer W. Beasley and Eleri Cusick: Gallstones 6.3: Paul R. V. Johnson: Pancreatic conditions 6.4: Atsuyuki Yamataka and Geoffrey J. Lane: Choledochal cyst 6.5: Erik D. Skarsgard: Splenic abnormalities in children Section 7: Oncology 7.1: Ed Kiely: Principles of childhood cancer and its management 7.2: Keith Holmes: Neuroblastoma 7.3: Bruce Okoye: Wilms tumour 7.4: Tim Rogers and Andre Cardoso Almeida: Soft tissue tumours 7.5: Tom Clarnette: Liver tumours in children 7.6: Mohamed Sameh Shalaby and Robert Carachi: Sacrococcygeal teratoma 7.7: Maria Kirby: Gonadal tumours Section 8: Inguino-scrotal and abdominal wall 8.1: Spencer W. Beasley: Hernias and hydroceles 8.2: John M. Hutson: Testicular descent and undescended testes 8.3: Nikki Smith: Acute scrotum 8.4: Madhavi Kakade and Niyi Ade-Ajayi: Non-inguinal hernias Section 9: Urology 9.1: Malcolm Lewis: Antenatal urology 9.2: Mark Woodward: Upper urinary tract obstruction 9.3: Stuart O'Toole: Urinary tract infection 9.4: Prasad P. Godbole: Urinary tract calculus disease 9.5: Tariq O. Abbas and Liam S. L. McCarthy: Conditions of the penis and urethra 9.6: David F. M. Thomas: Posterior urethral valves 9.7: Aurore Bouty and Mike O'Brien: Disorders of sex development 9.8: Alan P. Dickson: Vesico-ureteric reflux 9.9: Supul Hennayake: Duplication anomalies 9.10: Yves Heloury: The bladder exstrophy-epispadias complex 9.11: Fiona H. McAndrew and Andy D. Baird: Neuropathic bladder 9.12: Simon Rowland, Ramnath Subramaniam, and Alan P. Dickson: Cystic diseases of the kidney 9.13: Henrik Steinbrecher: Urinary incontinence Section 10: Trauma and burns 10.1: James Hamill: An approach to the initial assessment of trauma 10.2: Anthony Dilley and Carolyn Russell: Chest trauma 10.3: Oliver M. Jackson and Ross M. Fisher: Paediatric abdominal trauma 10.4: Naeem Samnakay: Urogenital trauma in children 10.5: Tony Sparnon: Burns Section 11: Related specialties 11.1: Edwin Osakwe and Justin Sims: General paediatrics for paediatric surgeons 11.2: James Ramsden: Paediatric otolaryngology 11.3: Rachel Buckingham: Orthopaedics for paediatric surgeons 11.4: Tim Goodacre: Plastic surgery including cleft lip and palate 11.5: David J. Barron: Congenital heart disease for the paediatric surgeon 11.6: Jayaratnam Jayamohan: Paediatric neurosurgery 11.7: Sonia Grover: Gynaecological problems in children and adolescence 11.8: Antony Bedggood: The eyes in the child 11.9: Khalid Sharif: Transplantation in children 11.10: Clare M. Rees: Covid-19 and paediatric surgery

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