Contents
Contributors vii
Preface xiii
1. “Why an Emergency General Surgery Course?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Ara Ko, Ananya Anand, and David A. Spain
2. Initial Assessment and Resuscitation of the Emergency
Surgery Patient ..............................................3
Beat Schnüriger, Joël L. Lavanchy, and Tobias Haltmeier
3. Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen..............................12
April E. Mendoza, Douglas Fraser, and Nancy A. Parks
4. General Surgery Issues in the MICU and CTICU....................21
Lisa Marie Knowlton, Jennifer Knight Davis, and Clay Cothren Burlew
5. Abdominal Sepsis ...........................................36
Scott C. Brakenridge, Mackenzie R. Cook, and David H. Livingston
6. Imaging in Emergency General Surgery .........................49
Sarah A. Moore and Stephanie A. Savage
7. Nutrition...................................................69
Jennifer L. Hartwell and Rosemary A. Kozar
8. Operating Room (General Setup, Approaches, and Incisions) ........78
Fernando Ferreira, Eva Barbosa, and Emanuel Guerreiro
9. Damage Control in Emergency General Surgery...................91
Andrea Spota, Stefania Cimbanassi, and Osvaldo Chiara
10. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and the Open Abdomen ......104
Bruno M. Pereira, Nathália Sampaio, and Michael Sugrue
11 Bowel Obstruction..........................................116
Andrea Costanzi, Michela Monteleone, Alan Biloslavo, and Marina Troian
12. Mesenteric Ischemia ........................................130
Hayato Kurihara, Enrico Marrano, and Martina Ceolin
13. Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage in Emergency Surgery ..............144
Nicole A. Stassen and Linda Ding
14. Acute Pancreatitis ..........................................154
Mark H. Hoofnagle, Nathan T. Mowery, and Jose J. Diaz Jr
15. Biliary Tree Disease .........................................171
Tanya Egodage, Laura N. Godat, and Lillian S. Kao
16. Peptic Ulcer Disease.........................................186
Kimberly A. Davis, Jamie J. Coleman, and Nicole Goulet 17. Acute Appendicitis..........................................203
Shahin Mohseni and Dennis Y. Kim
18. Inflammatory Disease of the Small Bowel and Colon ............. 210
Brian S. Zuckerbraun, Sean F. Monaghan, and Samuel Wade Ross
19. Anorectal Emergencies ......................................239
Bogdan Diaconescu and Tudor Marinescu
20. Vascular Emergencies .......................................253
Alan Biloslavo, Marina Troian, Andrea Costanzi, and Michela Monteleone
21. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections .............................271
Sharon Henry, Sonlee West, and Alexandra Briggs
22. Abdominal Wall Hernias .....................................290
Dorin Popa and Dzhendov Todor
23. Complex Liver Masses .......................................300
Ram Nirula and Miloš Buhavac
24. Obstetric and Gynecologic Considerations in Acute Care Surgery ...318
Karen Brasel and Chrissy Guidry
25. Thoracic Emergencies .......................................330
Morgan Schellenberg and Joseph Galante
26. Esophageal Emergencies.....................................344
David T. Efron, Matthew Benns, and Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith
27. Surgical Complications and Surgical Rescue .....................358
Oscar D. Guillamondegui, Salina M. Wydo, and Nicole A. Stassen
28. Complications of Bariatric Surgery.............................373
Gary Alan Bass, Jonathan Imran, Paul P . Healy, and Noel G. Williams
29. Complications of Wound Healing..............................381
David Silver, Rafael G. Ramos-Jimenez, and Matthew D. Neal
30. Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum ...............................391
Angela M. Ingraham, Vanessa P . Ho, and Marie Crandall
Index 401