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- Offers practical guidance that can be easily accessed in an emergency
- Describes useful surgical tips and tricks
- Covers acute care surgery philosophy
- Ideal pocket companion for young surgeons
This pocket manual is a practically oriented guide to abdominal and gastrointestinal emergencies in acute care surgery. It covers the most common injuries to the entire area, offering careful descriptions of diagnostic procedures, surgical techniques and non-operative management. The guide stems from collaboration with the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) and aims to provide general surgeons, residents and trainees with a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most relevant operative techniques and with useful "tips and tricks" applicable in for their daily clinical practice. A second volume on other surgical emergencies, which also includes chapters on antibiotic management, nutrition and interventional radiology in acute care surgery, is also available. Table of Contents - 1 Acute Abdomen: Clinical assessment and decision making
- 2 Diagnostic tools in ACS, when and how: CT scan, diagnostic laparoscopy and exploratory laparotomy
- 3 Laparoscopy for Acute Care Surgery
- 4 Complicated and Strangulated Hiatus hernias
- 5 Perforated peptic ulcer
- 6 Laparoscopic management of PPU
- 7 Acute small bowel bleeding
- 8 Colorectal bleeding emergencies
- 9 Acute pancreatitis
- 10 Endoscopic techniques for biliary and pancreatic acute conditions
- 11 Acute Cholecystitis and cholangitis
- 12 Laparoscopic technique for Acute Cholecystitis and biliary drainage
- 13 Endoscopic and percutaneous techniques for biliary drainage
- 14 Biliary iatrogenic complications
- 15 Gastric Outlet Obstruction
- 16 Small bowel obstruction
- 17 Large Bowel Obstruction
- 18 Colonic diverticulitis
- 19 Complicated and strangulated abdominal wall hernias
- 20 Acute appendicitis
- 21 GI foreign bodies
- 22 Small bowel perforations and SB miscellaneous acute diseases
- 23 Acute mesenteric ischemia
- 24 Open abdomen strategies in Acute Care Surgery
- 25 Entero-atmospheric fistulas
- 26 UGIB (upper GI bleeding)
- 27 Oesophageal non-bleeding emergencies
- 28 Minimally invasive and endoscopic management of oesophageal perforations
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