Emergency Surgery

This concise guide provides a clear account of the key issues involved in the assessment, investigation, resuscitation, and management of patients who present to the on-call surgical team. The authors discuss anesthesia, pre-op resuscitation/optimization, and initial post-operative care (including preliminary high dependency/critical care), as well as the complications and acute issues of hospitalized patients. Important sections on "trouble shooting" and "common pitfalls" help you save precious time.

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

Approach
The Initial Approach to the Emergency Surgery patient
Preoperative considerations
Emergency anaesthesia
Analgesia
Abdomen
Acute Appendicitis
Colonic Diverticulitis
Biliary Colic and Acute Cholecystitis
Perforated peptic ulcer
Fulminant colitis
Mesenteric Ischaemia
Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage
Lower GI haemorrhage
Acute Pancreatitis
Small bowel obstruction
Surgical jaundice and cholangitis
Large bowel obstruction
Emergency surgical management of herniae
Vascular
Ruptured aortic aneurysm
Acute limb ischaemia
Soft tissue infection
Superficial Sepsis, Cutaneous Abscess and Necrotising Fasciitis
Urology
Emergency urology
Trauma
Abdominal Trauma: evaluation and decision making
Thoracic trauma: evaluation and decision making
Vascular trauma
Damage control surgery
Trauma laparotomy
Operative Management of Thoracic Trauma
Abdominal trauma: operative and non operative management
Critical Care
Critical Care
Postoperative Complications
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