Emergency General Surgery: A Practical Approach - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 331996285X ISBN 13: 9783319962856

Publisher: Springer, 2018

Synopsis

The field of emergency general surgery encompasses a wide array of surgical diseases, ranging from the simple to the complex. These diseases may include inflammatory, infectious, and hemorrhagic processes spanning the entire gastrointestinal tract. Complications of abdominal wall hernias, compartment syndromes, skin and soft tissue infections, and surgical diseases are significantly complex in special populations, including elderly, obese, pregnant, immunocompromised, and cirrhotic patients.

This book covers emergency general surgery topics in a succinct, practical and understandable fashion. After reviewing the general principles in caring for the emergency general surgery patient, this text discusses current evidence and the best practices stratified by organ system, including esophageal, gastroduodenal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic, small and large bowel, anorectal, thoracic, and hernias. Chapters are written by experts in the field and present a logical, straightforward, and easy to understand approach to the emergency general surgery patient, as well as provide patient care algorithms where appropriate.

Emergency General Surgery: A Practical Approach provides surgeons and surgery residents with a practical and evidence-based approach to diagnosing and managing a wide array of surgical diseases encountered on emergency general surgery call.

About this title

About the Author

Carlos V.R. Brown
Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
USA

Kenji Inaba
LA County/University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
USA

Matthew J. Martin
Madigan Army Medical Center
Tacoma, WA
USA

Ali Salim
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, MA
USA

From the Back Cover

The field of emergency general surgery encompasses a wide array of surgical diseases, ranging from the simple to the complex. These diseases may include inflammatory, infectious, and hemorrhagic processes spanning the entire gastrointestinal tract, complications of abdominal wall hernias, compartment syndromes, skin and soft tissue infections, and surgical diseases significantly complicated in special populations including elderly, obese, pregnant, immunocompromised, and cirrhotic patients.

This book covers emergency general surgery topics in a succinct, practical, understandable fashion. After reviewing the general principles in caring for the emergency general surgery patient, this text discusses current evidence and the best practices stratified by organ system, including esophageal, gastroduodenal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic, small and large bowel, anorectal, thoracic, and hernias. Chapters are written by experts in the field and present a logical, straightforward, and easy to understand approach to the emergency general surgery patient, as well as provide patient care algorithms where appropriate.

Emergency General Surgery: A Practical Approach provides surgeons and surgery residents with a practical and evidence-based approach to diagnosing and managing a wide array of surgical diseases encountered on emergency general surgery call.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 331996285X
• ISBN 13: 9783319962856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 547
• Editor: Brown Carlos V. R., Inaba Kenji, Martin Matthew J., Salim Ali