Emergency surgery / edited by Adam Brooks ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brooks, Adam, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgical emergencies.

Emergency medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emergency Surgery provides both a practical guide and an understanding of the issues that need to be considered in the management of emergency surgery patients. It presents a clear account of the key issues involved in the assessment, investigation, resuscitation and surgical management of patients who present to the on-call emergency team. It considers the full breadth of issues encountered in these patients including anaesthesia, pre-op resuscitation/optimization, and initial post-operative care including preliminary high dependency/critical care, as well as the complications and ac

Contents:

Emergency Surgery; Contents; List of Contributors; Part 1 Approach; 1 The Initial Approach to the Emergency Surgery Patient; 2 Preoperative Considerations; 3 Emergency Anaesthesia; 4 Analgesia; Part 2 Abdomen; 5 Acute Appendicitis; 6 Colonic Diverticulosis; 7 Biliary Colic and Acute Cholecystitis; 8 Perforated Peptic Ulcer; 9 Fulminant Colitis; 10 Mesenteric Ischaemia; 11 Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage; 12 Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding; 13 Acute Pancreatitis; 14 Small Bowel Obstruction; 15 Surgical Jaundice and Cholangitis; 16 Large Bowel Obstruction

17 Emergency Surgical Management of HerniaePart 3 Vascular; 18 Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm; 19 Acute Limb Ischaemia; Part 4 Soft Tissue Infection; 20 Superficial Sepsis, Cutaneous Abscess and Necrotising Fasciitis; Part 5 Urology; 21 Emergency Urology; Part 6 Trauma; 22 Abdominal Trauma: Evaluation and Decision Making; 23 Thoracic Trauma: Evaluation and Decision Making; 24 Vascular Trauma; 25 Damage Control Surgery; 26 Trauma Laparotomy; 27 Operative Management of Thoracic Trauma; 28 Abdominal Trauma: Operative and Non-Operative Management; Part 7 Critical Care; 29 Critical Care

30 Postoperative ComplicationsIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612548598

9781282548596

128254859X

9781444315172

144431517X

9781444315189

1444315188

OCLC:

605066148