Emergency Surgery

Emergency Surgery provides both a practical guide and an understanding of the issues that need to be considered in the management of emergency surgery patients. It presents a clear account of the key issues involved in the assessment, investigation, resuscitation and surgical management of patients who present to the on–call emergency team.
It considers the full breadth of issues encountered in these patients including anaesthesia, pre–op resuscitation/optimization, and initial post–operative care including preliminary high dependency/critical care, as well as the complications and acute issues found in acute surgical patients on the ward.
It is ideal for surgical trainees as well as trainees from other specialties involved in the care of these complex and challenging patients.

Spis treści:
List of Contributors.
Part 1 Approach.
1. The Initial Approach to the Emergency Surgery Patient.
2. Preoperative Considerations.
3. Emergency Anaesthesia.
4. Analgesia.
Part 2 Abdomen.
5. Acute Appendicitis.
6. Colonic Diverticulitis.
7. Biliary Colic and Acute Cholecystitis.
8. Perforated Peptic Ulcer.
9. Fulminant Colitis.
10. Mesenteric Ischaemia.
11. Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage.
12. Lower GI Haemorrhage.
13. Acute Pancreatitis.
14. Small Bowel Obstruction.
15. Surgical Jaundice And Cholangitis.
16. Large Bowel Obstruction.
17. Emergency Surgical Management of Herniae.
Part 3 Vascular.
18. Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.
19. Acute Limb Ischaemia.
Part 4 Soft Tissue Infection.
20. Superficial Sepsis, Cutaneous Abscess and Necrotising Fasciitis.
Part 5 Urology.
21. Emergency Urology.
Part 6 Trauma.
22. Abdominal Trauma: Evaluation and Decision Making.
23. Thoracic Trauma: Evaluation and Decision Making.
24. Vascular Trauma.
25. Damage Control Surgery.
26. Trauma Laparotomy.
27. Operative Management of Thora cic Trauma.
28. Abdominal Trauma: Operative and Non Operative Management.
Part 7 Critical Care.
29. Critical Care.
30. Postoperative Complications.
Index.


Nota biograficzna:
Adam Brooks, FRCS (Gen Surg), DMCC
Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust and Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham
Bryan A. Cotton, MD, MPH
The University of Texas Health Science Center
Lt Col Nigel Tai, MS, FRCS (Gen Surg), RAMC
Royal London Hospital and Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham
Col Peter F. Mahoney, OBE, TD, MSc, FRCA, RAMC
RCDM Birmingham Research
Associate Editor: David J. Humes, BSc, MBBS, MRCS
Lecturer in Surgery, University of Nottingham