Emergency Vascular Surgery: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Eric Wahlberg MD, PhD, Pär Olofsson MD, PhD, Professor Jerry Goldstone MD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 199
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Emergency Vascular Surgery provides detailed guidelines to any physician treating patients with emergency vascular disorders, such as ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms, acute limb ischemia, vascular trauma, iatrogenic vascular injuries and complications to vascular surgery. It provides an introduction to vascular surgical operations and focuses on how to manage patients from the emergency ward through the urgent operation and all the way to the immediate postoperative period. Numerous figures illustrate the particular points in vascular techniques and diagnostic problems in the emergency situation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Vascular Injuries to the Neck....Pages 3-14
Vascular Injuries to the Thoracic Outlet Area....Pages 15-29
Vascular Injuries in the Arm....Pages 31-40
Acute Upper Extremity Ischemia....Pages 41-44
Abdominal Vascular Injuries....Pages 45-63
Acute Intestinal Ischemia....Pages 65-74
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms....Pages 75-90
Aortic Dissection....Pages 91-100
Vascular Injuries in the Leg....Pages 101-117
Acute Leg Ischemia....Pages 119-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Vascular Access in Trauma....Pages 137-140
Complications in Vascular Surgery....Pages 141-158
Acute Venous Problems....Pages 159-165
Acute Problems with Vascular Dialysis Access....Pages 167-177
General Principles of Vascular Surgical Technique....Pages 179-190
Back Matter....Pages 191-201

✦ Subjects

Surgery; Vascular Surgery; General Surgery; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine; Traumatic Surgery; Emergency Medicine