Operative Techniques and Recent Advances in Acute Care and Emergency Surgery

Description:

The aim of this book is to identify and shed new light on the main surgical practices involved in acute care and trauma surgery.  Adopting an evidence-based approach, a multidisciplinary team of surgeons and intensivists illustrate basic and advanced operative techniques, accompanied by a comprehensive and updated reference collection. Emerging surgical procedures in Acute Care Surgery are also explored step by step with the help of ample illustrations. Further, the book offers an overview of treatment options for acute organ failure, with a focus on peculiar clinical situations that call for special treatment, including: extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), circulatory support and urgent liver transplantation. In order to identify the key determinants in decision-making and therapeutic support that can help avoid critical errors, authors not only define and discuss specific surgical techniques, but also present major issues and controversies related to it.  In essence, the book can be considered a “What to do guide” that offers easy access to both basic and advanced lifesaving surgical procedures, due in part to text boxes highlighting “Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls” as well as advice on “Complications Management”. Many chapters are enriched by providing clinical case scenarios, an important educational resource including self–assessment questionnaires.

Table of Contents:

Part I. General Principles

1. Surgical Education and Training for Emergency Surgery and Surgical Specialties

2. Pathophysiology of Acute Illness and Injury

3. Shock States in Acute Care Surgery

4. Preoperative Assessment of the Acute Critically Ill Trauma Patient in the Emergency Department

5. Invasive and Noninvasive Hemodynamic Monitoring

6. Point-of-Care Ultrasound Management and Monitoring in Critical Care

Part II. Trauma

7. Critical Care Resuscitation in Trauma Patients: Basic Principles and Evolving Frontiers

8. Prehospital Care and In-Hospital Initial Trauma Management

9. From Trauma Scoring System to Early Appropriate Care

10. Airway Management in Trauma Patients

11. Emergency Resuscitation Procedures in Major Trauma: Operative Techniques

12. Modern Management of Maxillofacial Injuries

13. Modern Management of Ophthalmic Injuries

14. Advances in Traumatic Brain Injury Care: A Problem-Solving Approach for a Heterogeneous Syndrome

15. Emergent Management of Neck Trauma

16. Vascular Injuries of the Neck

17. Update on Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

18. Modern Strategies for the Management of High-Energy Pelvic Fractures in the Twenty-First Century

19. Chest Wall and Diaphragmatic Injuries

20. Pleural, Lung and Tracheal Injuries

21. Blunt Trauma to the Heart and Great Vessels

22. Penetrating Cardiac Injury

23. Damage Control and Open Abdomen in Abdominal Injury

24. Basic Operative Techniques in Abdominal Injury

25. Current Management of Urinary Tract Injuries

26. Operative Techniques in Vascular Injuries of Extremities

Part III. Non-traumatic Emergency Surgery

27. Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Acute Abdominal Pain

28. Updates in Diagnosis and Management of Acute Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

29. Updates in Gastrointestinal Emergencies: Inflammatory Conditions and Obstructions

30. Updates in the Management of Acute Pancreatitis

31. Updates in the Management of Cholecystitis, Cholangitis, and Obstructive Jaundice

32. Updates in Non-traumatic Urological Emergencies

33. Updates in the Management of Ob-Gyn Emergencies

34. Acute Aortic Syndrome

35. Update in the Management of Non-traumatic Thoracoabdominal Vascular Emergencies

36. Updates in the Management of Non-traumatic Abdominal Vascular Emergencies (Abdominal Aortoiliac Aneurysms, Intestinal Ischemia, Splanchnic Aneurysms)

37. Mechanical Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction

38. Updates in the Management of Cardiogenic Shock in Acute Coronary Syndrome

39. Emergency Management of Infective Endocarditis

40. Updates in the Management of Esophageal Emergencies (Caustic and Iatrogenic Injuries)

41. Updates in the Management of Foreign Bodies of the Gastrointestinal Tract

42. Updates in the Management of Anorectal Abscess and Inflammatory or Thrombotic Process

43. Open Abdomen: Indications, Surgical Management, and Critical Care

44. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections (NSTI)

Part IV. Surgical Critical Care and Special Topics

45. Advances in Sepsis Management

46. Initial Resuscitation of Hemorrhagic Shock and Massive Transfusion Protocol

47. Nutrition Support in Critically Ill Surgical Patients

48. Management Strategies in Geriatric Trauma Care

49. Acute Compartment Syndrome

50. Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome After Trauma: Update 2017

51. Acute Respiratory Failure: Ventilatory Support and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)

52. Mechanical Circulatory Support: LVAD in Heart Failure

53. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Trauma

54. Hyper-Urgent Liver Transplantation for Posttraumatic and Surgical Iatrogenic Acute Liver Failure

55. The Potential Organ Donor: Current Trends and Management

56. Periprocedural Iatrogenic Injuries and Death in Emergency and Trauma Surgery: A Forensic Perspective

57. Selective Use of Endovascular Techniques in the Damage Control Setting

58. Answers to Quizzes for “Case Scenario”

Corrections to: Updates in the Management of Anorectal Abscess and Inflammatory or Thrombotic Process