This is the PDF eBook version for Acute Care Surgery Handbook – Volume 2 Common Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Emergencies by Salomone Di Saverio, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, George Velmahos
Table of Contents
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.