Common Problems in Acute Care Surgery

Laura J. Moore, MD, FACS Associate Professor Department of Surgery, Division of Acute Care Surgery The University of Texas McGovern Medical School Houston, TX, USA S. Rob Todd, MD, FACS, FCCM Associate Professor Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA

Foreword

Preface

Contributors

I. General Principles

1. Initial Resuscitation and Management of the Hemodynamically Unstable Patient

Diane A Schwartz and John Holcomb

2. The Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen

Marie Crandall

3. Perioperative Considerations for Surgical Emergencies

J. Davis Yonge and Patricia Ayoung-Chee

Maamoun A. Harmouch and Mark J. Hobeika

5. Surgical Procedures in the Intensive Care Unit

Emmanuel Sonnaike and Jeremy L. Ward

6. Hemodynamic Monitoring in the ICU

David Evan Meyer

7. Early Management of Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock in the Surgical Patient<

Michelle H. Scerbo and Laura J. Moore

8. Multiple Organ Failure

Stephanie Gordy

9. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Seth A. Bellister and Michelle K. McNutt

10. Nutrition in the Surgical Patient

Rosemary Kozar, Anthony Tannous, and Diane A. Schwartz

11. Renal Replacement Therapy

Kevin W. Finkel

12. Management of Surgical Site Infections

13. Hemorrhage and Transfusions in the Surgical Patient

Holly Whitt and Bryan A. Cotton

14. Principles of Vascular Access

Ramyar Gilani

II. Common Diseases in Acute Care Surgery

15. Management of Intra-Abdominal Infections

Laura J. Moore

16. Obtaining a Surgical Airway

Robert Ellis Southard

17. Esophageal Perforation

18. Pneumothorax, Hemothorax, and Empyema

K. Shad Pharaon and Benjamin L. Davis

David C. Gochnour

20. Peptic Ulcer Disease for the Acute Care Surgeon

Millard Andrew Davis and Sherry L. Sixta

21. Gastric Outlet Obstruction

Shinil K. Shah and Peter A. Walker

22. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

23. Acute Biliary Disease

Ning Lu and Walter L. Biffl

24. Management of Complications from Biliary Surgery

Maureen D. Moore, Caitlyn McIntyre, and Soumitra Eachempati

25. Liver Abscesses

Edie Chan, Lia Jordano, and Marc Mesleh

Curtis J. Wray and Tien C. Ko

27. Small Bowel Obstruction

Alicia J. Mangram, Alexzandra Hollingworth, and James K. Dzandu

28. Appendicitis

Adam J. Meyers, Claire de Crescenzo, and Christine Cocanour

29. Diverticulitis

Winston M. Chan and Amit Agarwal

30. Mesenteric Ischemia for the Acute Care Surgeon

Rebecca JoAnne Weddle, Justin J. J. Watson, and Jennifer Marie Watters

31. Large Bowel Obstruction

Laura A. Kreiner

32. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

33. Volvulus

Michael S. Truitt and Tim Gutierrez

John C. Kubasiak and Marc I. Brand

35. Management of Complications of Endoscopic Therapy

Shinil K. Shah, Nirav C. Thosani, and Peter A. Walker

36. Complications of Morbid Obesity Surgery

Christian Perez, Peter A. Walker, and Shinil K. Shah

37. Abdominal Wall Hernias: Emergency Ventral Hernia Repair

38. Damage Control Surgery and the Open Abdomen

Clay Cothren Burlew

39. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome

John A. Harvin

40. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections

Krislynn M. Mueck and Lillian S. Kao

Joshua L. Gary and Gregory E. Catlett, Jr.

III. Ethics, Legal, and Administrative Considerations

42. Palliative Care In The Acute Care Surgery Setting

Bridget N. Fahy

43. Common Ethical Problems in Acute Care Surgery

Jeffrey P. Spike

44. Advance Directives

Gary T. Marshall

45. EMTALA Review

46. Developing an Acute Care Surgery Program

Janeen R. Jordan, Alicia M. Mohr, and Frederick A. Moore

Index

"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)