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🔢 Codes

GS in numbers.

Evidence-based numbers · Continuously updated · Fully referenced · Real live links

Surgery Code, inside the Living Book: every number worth quoting before a list, a consent conversation or an exam — each one audited against its own primary sources, with its disputes printed on the card, not buried.

278 cards · 14 families · 🟢 143 verified · 🟡 81 qualified · 🔴 41 disputed · ⚪ 13 qualitative — the badge is an audit state: how solid the number is. Icon and word, never colour alone.

Families — the decks

Fourteen decks, in registry order. Open one to read its cards in full, review it as a deck, or build a custom deck across families. Progress below is this device’s record.

Family 01

Appendicectomy

Section colour · Ch 1 · Colorectal, Anorectal & Pilonidal Disease

5 cards · 🟢 3 · 🟡 1 · ⚪ 1

Registry codes: EMR-APP

Family 02

Breast Lump Excision

Section colour · Ch 8 · Breast Surgery

4 cards · 🟢 3 · ⚪ 1

Registry codes: BRE-LUM

Family 03

Plastibell Circumcision in Infants

Section colour · Ch 10 · Skin, Soft Tissue & Wounds

4 cards · 🟢 4

Registry codes: PED-PLB

Family 04

Thyroidectomy

Section colour · Ch 7 · Endocrine Surgery

6 cards · 🟢 4 · 🔴 2

Registry codes: END-THY

Family 05

Pilonidal, Delirium & Gallbladder Polyps — Core

Section colour · Ch 1 · Colorectal, Anorectal & Pilonidal Disease

5 cards · 🟢 3 · 🔴 2

Registry codes: COL-PIL · BIL-POL · PER-DEL · PER-DM

Family 06

Pilonidal Sinus Disease — Deep Dossier

Section colour · Ch 1 · Colorectal, Anorectal & Pilonidal Disease

25 cards · 🟢 13 · 🟡 8 · 🔴 3 · ⚪ 1

Registry codes: COL-PIL

Family 07

Anal Complex — Haemorrhoids, Fissure, Abscess & Fistula-in-Ano

Section colour · Ch 1 · Colorectal, Anorectal & Pilonidal Disease

27 cards · 🟢 6 · 🟡 13 · 🔴 7 · ⚪ 1

Registry codes: COL-ANA

Family 08

Paediatric Inguinal Hernia & Hydrocele

Section colour · Ch 5 · Abdominal Wall & Hernia Surgery

23 cards · 🟢 10 · 🟡 5 · 🔴 5 · ⚪ 3

Registry codes: PED-HRN · PED-HYD

Family 09

Diabetic Foot — Prevention & Risk

Section colour · Ch 10 · Skin, Soft Tissue & Wounds

26 cards · 🟢 14 · 🟡 7 · 🔴 3 · ⚪ 2

Registry codes: PER-DFU

Family 10

Salivary Glands, Neck Nodes & Axilla

Section colour · Ch 7 · Endocrine Surgery

30 cards · 🟢 11 · 🟡 12 · 🔴 5 · ⚪ 2

Registry codes: SAL · NCK · AX-HS

Family 11

Thyroid & Parathyroid — Expanded Dossier

Section colour · Ch 7 · Endocrine Surgery

28 cards · 🟢 18 · 🟡 7 · 🔴 2 · ⚪ 1

Registry codes: END-THY-NOD/CAN/INC · END-PTH

Family 12

Adult Abdominal-Wall Hernias

Section colour · Ch 5 · Abdominal Wall & Hernia Surgery

32 cards · 🟢 23 · 🟡 6 · 🔴 3

Registry codes: ABD-HER

Family 13

Family History as a Risk Factor — Breast & Colorectal

Section colour · Ch 1 · Colorectal, Anorectal & Pilonidal Disease

28 cards · 🟢 8 · 🟡 16 · 🔴 4

Registry codes: RSK-BRC-FH · RSK-CRC-FH

Family 14

Gallbladder & Biliary Tract

Section colour · Ch 3 · Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic & Splenic Surgery

35 cards · 🟢 23 · 🟡 6 · 🔴 5 · ⚪ 1

Registry codes: BIL