Emergency General Surgery: A Practical Approach

Description:

The field of emergency general surgery encompasses a wide array of surgical diseases, ranging from the simple to the complex. These diseases may include inflammatory, infectious, and hemorrhagic processes spanning the entire gastrointestinal tract. Complications of abdominal wall hernias, compartment syndromes, skin and soft tissue infections, and surgical diseases are significantly complex in special populations, including elderly, obese, pregnant, immunocompromised, and cirrhotic patients. This book covers emergency general surgery topics in a succinct, practical and understandable fashion. After reviewing the general principles in caring for the emergency general surgery patient, this text discusses current evidence and the best practices stratified by organ system, including esophageal, gastroduodenal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic, small and large bowel, anorectal, thoracic, and hernias. Chapters are written by experts in the field and present a logical, straightforward, and easy to understand approach to the emergency general surgery patient, as well as provide patient care algorithms where appropriate. Emergency General Surgery: A Practical Approach provides surgeons and surgery residents with a practical and evidence-based approach to diagnosing and managing a wide array of surgical diseases encountered on emergency general surgery call.

Table of Contents:

1. Definition of Emergency General Surgery (EGS) and Its Burden on the Society

2. Evaluating the Acute Abdomen

3. Imaging in Emergency General Surgery

4. Antibiotics in Emergency General Surgery

5. Esophageal Perforation

6. Variceal Hemorrhage for the Acute Care Surgeon

7. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

8. Gastroduodenal Perforations

9. Benign and Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction

10. Acute Cholecystitis

11. Choledocholithiasis

12. Acute Cholangitis

13. Gallstone Ileus

14. Acute Pancreatitis

15. Hepatic Abscess

16. Small Bowel Obstruction

17. Small Bowel Perforation

18. Inflammatory Bowel Disease

19. Small Bowel Sources of Gastrointestinal Bleeds

20. Mesenteric Ischemia

21. Acute Appendicitis

22. Diverticulitis

23. Clostridium difficile Infection

24. Large Bowel Obstruction: Current Techniques and Trends in Management

25. Lower GI Bleeds

26. Ischemic Colitis

27. Ogilvie’s Syndrome

28. Colon Volvulus

29. The Treatment of Peri-Rectal Abscesses for the Emergency General Surgeon

30. Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Hemorrhoidal Disease and the Complications of Hemorrhoidal Procedures

31. Spontaneous Pneumothorax

32. Empyema

33. Incarcerated Inguinal Hernias

34. Incarcerated Umbilical and Ventral Hernia Repair

35. Paraesophageal Hernia and Gastric Volvulus

36. Extremity Compartment Syndrome

37. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and the Open Abdomen

38. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection

39. Management of Bariatric Complications for the General Surgeon

40. Emergency General Surgery in the Elderly

41. Non-obstetric Emergency Surgery in the Pregnant Patient

42. Emergency General Surgery in the Immunocompromised Surgical Patient

43. Cirrhosis

44. Surgical Palliative Care, “Heroic Surgery,” and End-of-Life Care

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