Schein's Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery

* Contains all the surgeon needs to know about emergency abdominal surgery
* Short chapters, allocated to three sections: preoperative phase, the operation, postoperative phase
* Concisely written and to the point with humorous caricatures

Emergency Abdominal Surgery is a battleground for the surgeon - providing character-building experiences, and opportunities for triumph and disaster. In the third 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 lives, decrease morbidity, be cost effective and be performed correctly.

Contents

General Philosophy.- A Brief History of Emergency Abdominal Surgery.- Part A Before the Operation: The Acute Abdomen.- Rational Diagnostic Procedures.- Abdominal Imaging.- Optimizing the Patient.- Preoperative Antibiotics.- Family, Ethics, Informed Consent and Medicolegal Issues.- Before the Flight: Pre-Op Checklist.- Part B The Operation: The Incision.- Abdominal Exploration: Finding What is Wrong.- Peritonitis: Contamination and Infection - Principles of Treatment.- The Intestinal Anastomosis (and Stomata).- Intestinal Stomas.- Esophageal Emergencies.- Diaphragmatic Emergencies.- Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (and Portal Hypertension).- Perforated Peptic Ulcer.- Acute Pancreatitis: The Basics.- Gallbladder and Biliary Emergencies.- Acute Cholecystitis.- Acute Cholangitis.- Management of CBD Stones in Acute Biliary Pancreatitis.- Small Bowel Obstruction.- Acute Abdominal Wall Hernias.- Acute Mesenteric Ischemia.- Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Other Types of Colitis.- Colonic Obstruction.- Acute Diverticulitis.- Massive Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Acute Appendicitis.- Anorectal Emergencies.- Surgical Complications of Endoscopy.- Complications of Bariatric Surgery.- Complications of Peritoneal Dialysis.- Gynecological Emergencies.- Urological Emergencies.- Abdominal Emergencies in Infancy and Childhood.- The AIDS Patient.- Abdominal Emergencies in the 'Third World'.- Asia.- Africa.- Penetrating Abdominal Trauma.- Blunt Trauma and Rx of Specific Injuries.- Blunt Abdominal Trauma.- Operative Management of Individual Organ Injuries.- The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.- Abdominal Aortic Emergencies.- Abdominal Drainage.- Abdominal Closure.- Before Landing.- Part C After the Operation: Postoperative Care.- Nutrition.- Postoperative Antibiotics.- Postoperative Ileus Versus Intestinal Obstruction.- Intra-Abdominal Abscesses.- Anastomotic Leaks and Fistulas.- Leaks Following Colonic or Rectal Anastomoses.- Relaparotomies and Laparostomy for Infection.- Relaparotomy.- Laparostomy.- Laparoscopic Abdominal Reexploration.- Abdominal Wall Dehiscence.- LIRS, SIRS, Sepsis, MODS, and Tertiary Peritonitis.- Wound Management.- Postoperative Bleeding.- The Role of Laparoscopy.- Complications of Laparoscopic Surgery.- In the Aftermath and the M & M Meeting.- Index.