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 fundamentals1.1: Spencer W. Beasley: Clinical and operative decision making in paediatric surgical practice1.2: Charles Foster: Ethical and legal aspects of paediatric surgery1.3: Richard Rogers and Naresh Rughooputh: Anaesthesia and ventilation1.4: Peter A. Stoddart: Perioperative pain management1.5: Agostino Pierro and Simon Eaton: Nutrition and total parenteral nutrition1.6: Rebecca Smith and Brent McSharry: The critically unwell child1.7: Chris Driver: Principles of operative surgery1.8: Suren Arul and James Bennett: Central venous access in childhood1.9: Spencer W. Beasley: Professionalism and leadershipSection 2: Neonatal2.1: Warwick Teague: Overview of embryology2.2: Charley Keys: Antenatal diagnosis, counselling, and intervention2.3: Bronwyn Dixon: Physiology of the neonate2.4: Sean Marven: Abdominal wall defects2.5: Paul D. Losty: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia2.6: Spencer W. Beasley: Oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula2.7: Alexander Cho and Paolo De Coppi: Conditions of the stomach2.8: Josh Sommovilla and Brad Warner: Congenital duodenal obstruction2.9: Kokila Lakhoo: Necrotising enterocolitis2.10: Janet McNally: Meconium ileus and meconium plug2.11: Dermot Thomas McDowell and Jonathan Karpelowsky: Small bowel and colonic atresia2.12: Anthony Lander: Intestinal malrotation and volvulus2.13: Lewis Spitz: Duplications of the gastrointestinal tract2.14: Craig A. McBride: Vitellointestinal malformations2.15: Simon Kenny: Hirschsprung disease2.16: Richard J. Wood and Marc A. Levitt: Anorectal malformationsSection 3: Head and neck3.1: Michael Nightingale: Midline neck swellings3.2: Sebastian King: Lateral neck lumps3.3: Radu Miha, Tracey Lam, and Paul R. V. Johnson: Thyroid and parathyroid3.4: Bhanumathi Lakshminarayanan and Mervyn Griffiths: Miscellaneous head and neck pathologySection 4: Thoracic and breast4.1: David C. G. Crabbe: Congenital lung malformations4.2: Philip Morreau: Empyema4.3: Alex Audist and Carolyn Russell: Chest wall deformities4.4: David C. G. Crabbe: Tracheomalacia4.5: Patrick H. Y. Chung and Kenneth K. Y. Wong: Inhaled foreign bodies4.6: Pankaj Roy: Breast disorders in childrenSection 5: Upper and lower gastrointestinal5.1: Paul R. V. Johnson and Spencer W. Beasley: Abdominal pain5.2: Paul R. V. Johnson, Spencer W. Beasley, and Eleri Cusick: Vomiting in children5.3: Bruce Jaffray: Gastro-intestinal bleeding5.4: Jim Bruce: Pyloric stenosis5.5: Joe Curry: Achalasia5.6: Russell Taylor: Paediatric oesophageal foreign bodies5.7: Eleri Cusick: Gastro-oesophageal reflux5.8: Simon Chapman and Ashish Desai: Bariatric surgery in children5.9: Hugh W. Grant: Adhesive small bowel obstruction5.10: Ingo Jester: Intestinal failure5.11: Eleri Cusick: Inflammatory bowel disease5.12: Ian Sugarman: Intestinal polyps5.13: Jonathan Sutcliffe: Constipation5.14: Alex C. H. Lee: Intussusception5.15: Eleri Cusick and Spencer W. Beasley: Acute appendicitis5.16: Michael Stanton: Acquired anorectal disordersSection 6: Hepato-biliary and spleen6.1: Mark Davenport: Biliary atresia6.2: Spencer W. Beasley and Eleri Cusick: Gallstones6.3: Paul R. V. Johnson: Pancreatic conditions6.4: Atsuyuki Yamataka and Geoffrey J. Lane: Choledochal cyst6.5: Erik D. Skarsgard: Splenic abnormalities in childrenSection 7: Oncology7.1: Ed Kiely: Principles of childhood cancer and its management7.2: Keith Holmes: Neuroblastoma7.3: Bruce Okoye: Wilms tumour7.4: Tim Rogers and Andre Cardoso Almeida: Soft tissue tumours7.5: Tom Clarnette: Liver tumours in children7.6: Mohamed Sameh Shalaby and Robert Carachi: Sacrococcygeal teratoma7.7: Maria Kirby: Gonadal tumoursSection 8: Inguino-scrotal and abdominal wall8.1: Spencer W. Beasley: Hernias and hydroceles8.2: John M. Hutson: Testicular descent and undescended testes8.3: Nikki Smith: Acute scrotum8.4: Madhavi Kakade and Niyi Ade-Ajayi: Non-inguinal herniasSection 9: Urology9.1: Malcolm Lewis: Antenatal urology9.2: Mark Woodward: Upper urinary tract obstruction9.3: Stuart O'Toole: Urinary tract infection9.4: Prasad P. Godbole: Urinary tract calculus disease9.5: Tariq O. Abbas and Liam S. L. McCarthy: Conditions of the penis and urethra9.6: David F. M. Thomas: Posterior urethral valves9.7: Aurore Bouty and Mike O'Brien: Disorders of sex development9.8: Alan P. Dickson: Vesico-ureteric reflux9.9: Supul Hennayake: Duplication anomalies9.10: Yves Heloury: The bladder exstrophy-epispadias complex9.11: Fiona H. McAndrew and Andy D. Baird: Neuropathic bladder9.12: Simon Rowland, Ramnath Subramaniam, and Alan P. Dickson: Cystic diseases of the kidney9.13: Henrik Steinbrecher: Urinary incontinenceSection 10: Trauma and burns10.1: James Hamill: An approach to the initial assessment of trauma10.2: Anthony Dilley and Carolyn Russell: Chest trauma10.3: Oliver M. Jackson and Ross M. Fisher: Paediatric abdominal trauma10.4: Naeem Samnakay: Urogenital trauma in children10.5: Tony Sparnon: BurnsSection 11: Related specialties11.1: Edwin Osakwe and Justin Sims: General paediatrics for paediatric surgeons11.2: James Ramsden: Paediatric otolaryngology11.3: Rachel Buckingham: Orthopaedics for paediatric surgeons11.4: Tim Goodacre: Plastic surgery including cleft lip and palate11.5: David J. Barron: Congenital heart disease for the paediatric surgeon11.6: Jayaratnam Jayamohan: Paediatric neurosurgery11.7: Sonia Grover: Gynaecological problems in children and adolescence11.8: Antony Bedggood: The eyes in the child11.9: Khalid Sharif: Transplantation in children11.10: Clare M. Rees: Covid-19 and paediatric surgery