This adaptation of Smeltzer and Bare's Tenth Edition of Brunner and Suddarth's "Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing" is designed to provide a comprehensive and relevant medical-surgical textbook for use by Canadian undergraduate nursing students. The adaptation includes new and updated material to reflect the differences in practice in terms of: the health care system, ethics, culture, epidemiology, nursing management, medical management, pharmacology, diagnostics tests and investigations, patient teaching/discharge, equipment and procedural guidelines, disaster and pandemic planning, support groups, and Web resources specific to Canada.