Common Problems in Acute Care Surgery

Laura J. Moore, MD, FACSAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Surgery, Division of Acute Care SurgeryThe University of Texas McGovern Medical SchoolHouston, TX, USAS. Rob Todd, MD, FACS, FCCMAssociate ProfessorMichael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery Baylor College of MedicineHouston, TX, USA

Section I: General Principles.- Initial Resuscitation and Management of the Hemodynamically Unstable Patient.- The Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen.- Perioperative Considerations for Surgical Emergencies.- Perioperative Management of the Cirrhotic Patient.- Surgical Procedures in the Intensive Care Unit.- Hemodynamic Monitoring in the ICU.- Early Management of Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock in the Surgical Patient.- Multiple Organ Failure.- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- Nutrition in the Surgical Patient.- Renal Replacement Therapy.- Management of Surgical Site Infections.- Hemorrhage and Transfusions in the Surgical Patient.- Principles of Vascular Access.- Management of Intra-Abdominal Infections.- Obtaining a Surgical Airway.- Esophageal Perforation.- Pneumothorax, Hemothorax, and Empyema.- Acute Paraesophageal Hernia.- Peptic Ulcer Disease for the Acute Care Surgeon.- Gastric OutletObstruction.- Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Acute Biliary Disease.- Management of Complications from Biliary Surgery.- Liver Abscesses.- Acute Pancreatitis.- Small Bowel Obstruction.- Appendicitis.- Diverticulitis.- Mesenteric Ischemia for the Acute Care Surgeon.- Large Bowel Obstruction.- Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Volvulus.- Anorectal Disease.- Management of Complications of Endoscopic Therapy.- Complications of Morbid Obesity Surgery.- Abdominal Wall Hernias: Emergency Ventral Hernia Repair.- Damage Control Surgery and the Open Abdomen.- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections.- Acute Compartment Syndrome.- Palliative Care In The Acute Care Surgery Setting.- Common Ethical Problems in Acute Care Surgery.- Advance Directives.- EMTALA Review.

"The purpose is to present a series of reviews intended to survey the available evidence on problems encountered in this growing discipline. Trainees and students with an interest in acute care surgery as well as senior providers needing a rapid, readable update are an appropriate audience for this book ... . This book is most effective in describing operative and nonoperative management of surgical emergencies. ... Surgeons facing abdominal emergencies are best served by this book." (David Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, April, 2017)