Schein's Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery

✍ Scribed by Moshe Schein, Paul N. Rogers (auth.), Moshe Schein MD, FACS, FCS(SA), Paul N. Rogers MB ChB, MBA, MD, FRCS (Glasgow) (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 458
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Emergency Abdominal Surgery is a battlefield for the surgeon - providing character-building experiences, and opportunities for triumph and disaster. In the second edition of this 'simple' book emergency abdominal surgery is discussed in an informal and no nonsense fashion - as practiced in the 'trenches' of the ER and the OR. The preferred approach for a given situation is discussed in context; it has to fulfill certain prerequisites: save live, decrease morbidity, be cost effective and be performed correctly.

Review of the 1st Edition:

'What makes this book very readable are the 'pregnant' citations, aphorisms and 'smart savings', which are often heard at the bedside and operation rooms but almost never reach the pages of a book'. (P. Klein, Chirurg, 2000). ' This is written with short punchy chapters making it very difficult to put down....'. (R A B Wood, Journal Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 2000) ' Since Mondor's times in the forties of the last century there was no other book in surgery to be written so easy and witty...' (Boris D. Savchuk, World Journal of Surgery, 2002).

✦ Table of Contents

General Philosophy....Pages 3-8
A Brief History of Emergency Abdominal Surgery....Pages 9-14
The Acute Abdomen....Pages 17-25
Rational Diagnostic Procedures....Pages 27-32
Abdominal Imaging....Pages 33-54
Optimizing the Patient....Pages 55-65
Pre-operative Antibiotics....Pages 67-69
Family, Ethics, Informed Consent and Medicolegal Issues....Pages 71-75
Before the Flight: Pre-op Checklist....Pages 77-79
The Incision....Pages 83-86
Abdominal Exploration: Finding What is Wrong....Pages 87-94
Peritonitis: Contamination and Infection, Principles of Treatment....Pages 95-101
The Intestinal Anastomosis....Pages 103-108
Esophageal Emergencies....Pages 109-117
Diaphragmatic Emergencies....Pages 119-124
Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (and Portal Hypertension)....Pages 125-141
Perforated Peptic Ulcer....Pages 143-150
Acute Pancreatitis....Pages 151-161
Acute Cholecystitis....Pages 163-171
Acute Cholangitis....Pages 173-177
Small Bowel Obstruction....Pages 179-190
Acute Abdominal Wall Hernias....Pages 191-196
Acute Mesenteric Ischemia....Pages 197-204
Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Other Types of Colitis....Pages 205-215
Colonic Obstruction....Pages 217-228
Acute Diverticulitis....Pages 229-237
Massive Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding....Pages 239-244
Acute Appendicitis....Pages 245-254
Anorectal Emergencies....Pages 255-264
Surgical Complications of Endoscopy....Pages 265-274
Gynecological Emergencies....Pages 275-282
Abdominal Emergencies in Infancy and Childhood....Pages 283-290
The AIDS Patient....Pages 291-296
Penetrating Abdominal Trauma....Pages 297-304
Blunt Abdominal Trauma....Pages 305-319
The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome....Pages 321-327
Abdominal Aortic Emergencies....Pages 329-336
Abdominal Closure....Pages 337-341
Before Landing....Pages 343-344
Postoperative Care....Pages 347-353
Nutrition....Pages 355-362
Postoperative Antibiotics....Pages 363-367
Postoperative Ileus vs Intestinal Obstruction....Pages 369-376
Intra-abdominal Abscesses....Pages 377-385
Anastomotic Leaks and Fistulas....Pages 387-393
Re-laparotomies and Laparostomy for Infection....Pages 395-410
Abdominal Wall Dehiscence....Pages 411-414
LIRS, SIRS, Sepsis, MODS and Tertiary Peritonitis....Pages 415-423
Wound Management....Pages 425-430
Postoperative Bleeding....Pages 431-437
The Role of Laparoscopy....Pages 439-448
In the Aftermath and the M & M Meeting....Pages 449-455

✦ Subjects

General Surgery;Emergency Medicine;Traumatic Surgery;Infectious Diseases;Intensive / Critical Care Medicine