Emergency General Surgery

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

Definition of Emergency General Surgery (EGS) and its Burden on the Society.- Evaluating the  Acute  Abdomen.- Imaging in Emergency General  Surgery.- Antibiotics in Emergency  General  Surgery.- Esophageal Perforation.- Variceal  Hemorrhage  for  the  Acute  Care  Surgeon.- Upper  Gastrointestinal  Bleeding.- Gastroduodenal  Perforations.- Benign  and  Malignant  Gastric  Outlet  Obstruction.- Acute  Cholecystitis.- Choledocholithiasis.- Acute  Cholangitis.- Gallstone  Ileus.- Acute Pancreatitis.- Hepatic Abscess.- Small Bowel Obstruction.- Small Bowel Perforation.- Inflammatory Bowel Disease.- Small Bowel Sources of Gastrointestinal Bleeds.- Mesenteric Ischemia.- Acute Appendicitis.- Diverticulitis.- Clostridium difficile Infection.- Large Bowel Obstruction: Current Techniques and Trends in Management.- Lower GI Bleeds.- Ischemic Colitis.- Ogilvie's Syndrome.- Colon Volvulus.- The Treatment of Peri-rectal Abscesses for the Emergency General Surgeon.- Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Hemorrhoidal Disease and the Complications of Hemorrhoidal Procedures.- Spontaneous Pneumothorax.- Empyema.- INCARCERATED INGUINAL HERNIAS.- INCARCERATED UMBILICAL AND VENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR.- PARAESOPHAGEAL HERNIA AND GASTRIC VOLVULUS.- Extremity Compartment Syndrome.- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and the Open Abdomen.- Necrotizing soft tissue infection.- Management of Bariatric Complications for the General Surgeon.- Emergency General Surgery in the Elderly:.- Non-obstetric Emergency Surgery in the Pregnant Patient.- Emergency General Surgery in the Immunocompromised Surgical Patient.- Cirrhosis.- Surgical Palliative Care, "Heroic Surgery," and End-of-Life Care.