Main description:

Two-volume set:

Volume 1 -General Aspects, Non-gastrointestinaI and critical care emergencies;

Volume 2 -Gastrointestinal and abdominal surgical emergencies

This two-volume set is a wide-ranging guide to acute care surgery general aspects, offering an overview on non-gastrointestinal, critical care, abdominal and gastrointestinal emergencies in acute care surgery. These guides stem 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.

Contents:

Volume 1: 1. Acute care surgery around the world: future perspectives.- 2. A history of acute care suregry.- 3. Scientific Research in emergency surgery setting.- 4. Organization of an acute care surgery service and patient safety management.- 5. Safety and the use of checklists in acute care surgery.- 6. Emergencies in otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery.- 7. Hemothorax, pneumothorax and chest empyema.- 8. Anorectal emergencies.- 9. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections.- 10. Surgical Site Infections and their Management.- 11. Non-Traumatic Peripheral Vascular Emergencies.- 12. Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms and major vascular injuries.- 13. Obstetrics-Gynecology Emergencies.- 14. Genito Urinary Emergencies.- 15. Critical Care in Acute Care Surgery.- 16. Septic Shock and Resuscitation Strategies.- 17. Antibiotic management in acute care surgery.- 18. Nutrition in sepsis and acute surgical patients.- 19. Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Critically-Ill Patients.- 20. Interventional Radiology for non-traumatic acute thoraco-abdominal bleeding.- 21. Percutaneous Techniques for Management of Intra-Abdominal Abscesses.- 22. Damage Control Surgery for Emergency General Surgery.- 23. The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.- 24. Common Pediatric Surgical Emergencies.- 25. Common Surgical Emergencies in Transplanted Patients.- 26. Emergency management of caustic injuries.- 27. Surgical emergencies during pregnancy.- 28. Geriatric Emergency Surgery.Volume 2: 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: a new diagnostic and therapeutic tool for Acute Care Surgery.- 4 Oesophageal non-bleeding emergencies: Minimally invasive and endoscopic management of oesophageal perforations.- 5 Management of postoperative complications in Esophago-gastric Surgery.- 6 Management of Complicated and Strangulated Hiatial Hernias.- 7 Upper GI bleeding .- 8 Perforated peptic ulcer .- 9 Acute small bowel bleeding.- 10 Colorectal bleeding emergencies.- 11 Acute pancreatitis.- 12 Acute cholecystitis and cholangitis .- 13 Endoscopic techniques for biliary and pancreatic acute diseases.- 14 Laparoscopic techniques for Acute Cholecystitis and biliary drainage.- 15 PREVENTION OF BILIARY INJURIES IN ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS.- 16 Small bowel obstruction.-17 Large Bowel Obstruction.- 18 Endoscopic management of LBO.- 19 Management of colonic diverticulitis.- 20 Laparoscopy for perforated acute diverticulitis.- 21 Incarcerated and strangulated abdominal wall hernias.- 22 Acute Appendicitis: Diagnosis and Non operative management.- 23 Management of complicated appendicitis: Percutaneous drainage and interval appendectomy or immediate surgery? open or laparoscopic surgery.- 24 Laparoscopy, SILS and NOTES for Acute Appendicitis.- 25 Small bowel perforations and SB miscellaneous acute diseases.- 26 Acute mesenteric ischemia.- 27 Open abdomen strategies in Acute Care Surgery: when and how.- 28 Entero-atmospheric fistulas.