Emergency General Surgery: A Practical Approach

✍ Scribed by Carlos V. R. Brown, Kenji Inaba, Matthew J. Martin, Ali Salim

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 521
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Definition of Emergency General Surgery (EGS) and Its Burden on the Society (Stephen C. Gale, Kevin M. Schuster, Marie L. Crandall, Shahid Shafi)....Pages 1-11
Evaluating the Acute Abdomen (Sawyer Smith, Martin A. Schreiber)....Pages 13-26
Imaging in Emergency General Surgery (Mathew Giangola, Joaquim M. Havens)....Pages 27-39
Antibiotics in Emergency General Surgery (Mitchell J. Daley, Emily K. Hodge, Dusten T. Rose)....Pages 41-56
Esophageal Perforation (Jared L. Antevil, Philip S. Mullenix)....Pages 57-73
Variceal Hemorrhage for the Acute Care Surgeon (Paul J. Deramo, Michael S. Truitt)....Pages 75-86
Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (Marcel Tafen, Steven C. Stain)....Pages 87-102
Gastroduodenal Perforations (Elisa Furay, W. Drew Fielder)....Pages 103-109
Benign and Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction (John Saydi, S. Rob Todd)....Pages 111-120
Acute Cholecystitis (Aaron M. Williams, Ben E. Biesterveld, Hasan B. Alam)....Pages 121-135
Choledocholithiasis (Morgan Schellenberg, Meghan Lewis)....Pages 137-149
Acute Cholangitis (Marko Bukur, Jaclyn Clark)....Pages 151-164
Gallstone Ileus (Chris Dodgion, Marc de Moya)....Pages 165-173
Acute Pancreatitis (Marc D. Trust, C. Yvonne Chung, Carlos V. R. Brown)....Pages 175-188
Hepatic Abscess (Alexandra Brito, Leslie Kobayashi)....Pages 189-200
Small Bowel Obstruction (Amirreza T. Motameni, Jason W. Smith)....Pages 201-211
Small Bowel Perforation (Eric M. Campion, Clay Cothren Burlew)....Pages 213-221
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Carey Wickham, Sang W. Lee)....Pages 223-231
Small Bowel Sources of Gastrointestinal Bleeds (Shuyan Wei, Lillian S. Kao)....Pages 233-245
Mesenteric Ischemia (Meryl A. Simon, Joseph J. DuBose)....Pages 247-256
Acute Appendicitis (Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, Pedro G. R. Teixeira)....Pages 257-266
Diverticulitis (Anuradha R. Bhama, Anna Yegiants, Scott R. Steele)....Pages 267-276
Clostridium difficile Infection (Aela P. Vely, Paula Ferrada)....Pages 277-281
Large Bowel Obstruction: Current Techniques and Trends in Management (Andrew T. Schlussel, Erik Q. Roedel)....Pages 283-301
Lower GI Bleeds (Katherine A. Kelley, Karen J. Brasel)....Pages 303-310
Ischemic Colitis (Dirk C. Johnson, Kimberly A. Davis)....Pages 311-323
Ogilvie’s Syndrome (Morgan Schellenberg, Kazuhide Matsushima)....Pages 325-332
Colon Volvulus (Rebecca E. Plevin, Andre R. Campbell)....Pages 333-338
The Treatment of Peri-Rectal Abscesses for the Emergency General Surgeon (Emily Miraflor, Gregory Victorino)....Pages 339-347
Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Hemorrhoidal Disease and the Complications of Hemorrhoidal Procedures (James M. Tatum, Eric J. Ley)....Pages 349-356
Spontaneous Pneumothorax (Jaye Alexander Weston, Anthony W. Kim)....Pages 357-365
Empyema (Neil Venardos, John D. Mitchell)....Pages 367-375
Incarcerated Inguinal Hernias (Shirin Towfigh)....Pages 377-385
Incarcerated Umbilical and Ventral Hernia Repair (Molly R. Deane, Dennis Y. Kim)....Pages 387-396
Paraesophageal Hernia and Gastric Volvulus (K. Conley Coleman, Daniel Grabo)....Pages 397-403
Extremity Compartment Syndrome (Col (Ret) Mark W. Bowyer)....Pages 405-417
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and the Open Abdomen (Andrew M. Nunn, Michael C. Chang)....Pages 419-429
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection (Sameer A. Hirji, Sharven Taghavi, Reza Askari)....Pages 431-438
Management of Bariatric Complications for the General Surgeon (Essa M. Aleassa, Stacy Brethauer)....Pages 439-450
Emergency General Surgery in the Elderly (Bellal Joseph, Mohammad Hamidi)....Pages 451-463
Non-obstetric Emergency Surgery in the Pregnant Patient (Ram Nirula, Ronald Buczek, Milos Buhavac)....Pages 465-477
Emergency General Surgery in the Immunocompromised Surgical Patient (Shawn Tejiram, Jack A. Sava)....Pages 479-493
Cirrhosis (Jessica K. Reynolds, Andrew C. Bernard)....Pages 495-504
Surgical Palliative Care, “Heroic Surgery,” and End-of-Life Care (Franchesca Hwang, Anastasia Kunac)....Pages 505-514
Back Matter ....Pages 515-531

✦ Subjects

Medicine & Public Health; General Surgery; Traumatic Surgery