Complications in Acute Care Surgery : The Management of Difficult Clinical Scenarios

This text provides the reader a starting point for the most difficult and uncommon complications in acute care surgery. It is designed to provide options to that ubiquitous intra-operative or bedside question "Well, now what do we do with this?" The topics have been chosen for the extreme...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Diaz, Jose J. (Editor), Efron, David T. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319423760
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-42376-0
Physical DescriptionXIV, 374 p. 86 illus., 44 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Challenging IV Access in the Patient with Septic Shock
  • Fluids in Septic Shock: Crystalloid, Colloids, or Blood?
  • Resuscitation of the Patient in Severe Septic Shock
  • Intra-peritoneal Resuscitation in Trauma and Sepsis: Management Options for the Open Abdomen
  • How to Feed the Open Abdomen
  • Intra-Abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Acute Care Surgery
  • Empyema in the Acute Care Surgical Patient
  • Gastric
  • The Complicated Cholecystectomy and Management of Perforation Post-ERCP
  • Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis
  • Small Bowel: The Problematic Duodenal Perforation
  • Small Bowel: Aortoenteric Fistula
  • Small Bowel: Pneumatosis Intestinalis
  • Colon: Long Hartmann and Rectal Stump Blowout
  • Rectum: Management of the Urgen APR & Dissecting the "Frozen" Pelvis
  • Complex Liver Abscess
  • The Complex Splenectomy
  • Soft Tissue Necrotizing Infection Due to Perforated Colon
  • The Planning for the "Planned Ventral Hernia"
  • Post-Bariatric Complications-Leaks
  • The Problem Stoma
  • The Immunosuppressed Patient
  • Management of Anastomotic Leaks-Early <7 Days and Late >7 Days
  • The Re-Laparotomy in the Delayed (2-3 week) Post-Operative Period
  • The Management of the Entero-Atmospheric Fistula (EAF)
  • Unresectable Malignancy and Bowel Obstruction in the Acute Care Surgery Patient
  • Jehovah's Witness and the Bleeding Surgical Patient.