Up-to-date and practically-focused, the fully revised secondedition of the Oxford Handbook of Trauma and Orthopaedics has received a major refresh, including new topics, illustrations, summary boxes, and key references. It provides clinical professionals, trainees, and students with essential information for use with adult and paediatric patients, in the operating room, in tutorials, and when studying for exams including MRCS, FRCS, and other orthopaedic diplomas. Presenting both the fundamental science and practice alongside higher-level discussion in a succinct and user-friendly style, it is a concise but definitive guide to the field.

Key illustrations and easy-reference diagrams guide the reader, and the appendices provide information on common drugs and fracture classifications. New topics include pre-hospital care, major trauma, setup of theatre complex, global orthopaedics, and EBM, hip fractures, soft tissue knee injuries, cauda equina, and metastatic spinal cord compression. Written by specialists and trainees, the Handbook is an accessible and informative tool suitable for all levels of training.

Kunal Kulkarni, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK,Randeep Aujla, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK,Jeremy Granville Chapman, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Kunal Kulkarni is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic surgeon based at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, undertaking general trauma and subspecialist Hand and Wrist surgery. He received his medical degree from the University of Oxford and subsequently completed his surgical training across the Oxford, London, and Midlands training regions. He undertook a fellowship at the internationally renowned Pulvertaft Hand Centre (Derby, UK) alongside a BOA Travelling Fellowship to Ganga Hospital (Coimbatore, India). He is one of only a select few Hand and Wrist surgeons in the UK that is dual certified with both the British and European Diplomas in Hand Surgery.



Randeep Aujla is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in knee, sports, and trauma at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He is internationally fellowship trained across Europe and Australia. He is the Head of Trauma in his unit and is the Leicester Knee Fellowship Co-Director. In the UK he has worked in professional sport for 10 years and enjoys athlete-care. He has an interest in sports related orthopaedic conditions and their management. He prides himself on providing evidence-based medicine for all his patients and values a patient-centred approach.


Jeremy Granville-Chapman is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified with a distinction from Barts and the London in 2003. Research into resuscitation strategies following military wounding yielded an MD. He won the 2013 Sir Walter Mercer Medal for the top performance in FRCS. Fellowship training at Wrightington (Upper Limb) and Brighton (Trauma) led to his Consultant appointment in 2016. Mr Granville-Chapman has published several articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has presented at learned meetings, both internationally and nationally. Alongside clinical work, Jeremy is a keen educator and regularly teaches surgeons in arthroscopy and fellowship exam preparation courses.

1. History and examination, David Bruce2. Investigations, Muaaz Tahir, Usman Ahmed, Shahbaz Malik3. Initial assessment and management, Philip Darcy & Faiz Shivzi4. Perioperative care, Frances Rickard, Katie Samuel, David Shipway5. Rehabilitation, Helen Tunicliffe, Aoife Nic Chathmhaoil6. Basic sciences, Kim Lammin7. Principles of evidence-based medicine, Kunal Kulkarni8. Global orthopaedics, James Berwin, Chris Lavy, N. C. Mkandawire9. Anatomy, Bobby Siddiqui, Illustrated by Aqua Asif and Ayaan Asif10. Surgical approaches and principles, Parag Raval and Victoria Gibbs11. Adult orthopaedics - rheumatology, Priyanka Chandrate12. Adult Pathology, Nicholas Eastley, Robert Ashord13. Adult orthopaedics - shoulder and elbow, Alex Woods, Jeremy Granville-Chapman14. Adult orthopaedics - wrist and hand, Nick Johnson, Kate Brown15. Adult orthopaedics - hip and knee, Nomaan Sheikh16. Adult orthopaedics - foot and ankle, Lauren Thomson17. Adult orthopaedics - spine, Siddarth Shah, Shakil Patel18. Adult trauma - upper limb, Simon Parker19. Adult trauma - lower limb, Andrew Wheelton20. Adult spine emergencies, Ahmad Tarawneh, Shakil Patel21. Paediatric orthopaedics, Daniel Reed, Michail Kokkinakis, Sam Weston Smith22. Paediatric - spine, Sultan Alkalbani, Shakil Patel23. Paediatric trauma, Khaled Sarraf, Chang Park