The Decision Atlas: Which Technique, Which Patient, Which Plane (Surgical Atlas Series Vol. 03)

The Decision Atlas is a 54-page surgical decision framework built on the Porto 2025 cadaver course consensus, designed to turn every consultation into a structured operative plan before the marking pen. It organises clinical decision-making around eight named patient archetypes, eleven decision trees and a three-axis triage system covering prior surgery, neck dynamic anatomy and tissue compliance.

A three-minute clinical exam — Pinch, Flex, Redrape — produces the compliance grading that drives every downstream decision, while the Master Triage Tree resolves each consultation to one of the eight terminal archetypes, with age plus indication acting as an overriding fourth filter. The atlas also sets out vector wheels, ligament release order and sequencing rules for combined procedures, alongside five numerical constants the faculty references on sight.

Each of the eight archetypes occupies a four-page section covering a Decision Card, Surgical Sequence, Vectors & Pitfalls and a Case Vignette, and a dedicated "Don't Do This" page lists twelve operations the Porto faculty consensus refuses to perform. The title is supplied as a publisher PDF of 211.3 MB, first edition, published in 2025 in English.

Key Features

Highlights

What this atlas helps you do
From consultation to incision — one structured framework

• Match the patient
  Read the face in clinic against eight clearly bounded archetypes.
• Choose the technique
  Resolve every consultation on three axes: prior surgery, neck dynamic anatomy, tissue compliance.
• Plan the sequence
  Vector wheels, ligament release order, and sequencing rules for every combined procedure.

Know when to decline
The "Don't Do This" page — twelve operations the Porto faculty consensus refuses to perform.