Surgical Decision Making

Rifat Latifi Westchester Medical Center Department of Surgery 100 Woods Road Valhalla, NY 10595 tel: 520-268-2545 rifat.latifi@gmail.com

Intraoperative Surgical Decision Making:  Is It Art or Is It Science or Is It Both?.- The Anatomy of the Surgeon's Decision Making.- The Role of Physiology and the Surgeon's State of the Mind in the Surgical Decision-Making Process.- Surgeons and Pilots: What Do We Have in Common?.- A Surgeon's Decisions as the Leader of an Interdisciplinary Action Team.- Planning and Preparing for the Operation: Guidelines and the Evidence-Based Decision Tree.- The Decision Making Process in Sepsis and Septic Shock.- Intraoperative Endpoints of Resuscitation.- Surgical Decision-Making Process and Damage Control: Current Principles and Practice.- Reoperative Surgery in Acute Setting:  When To Go Back?.- Surgical Decision Making-Process and Definitive Abdominal Wall Reconstruction.- Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations in Abdominal Surgery.- Trauma Surgeon Decision Making: Surviving Outside the Realm of the Evidence Based.- Management of the Most Difficult Perioperative and Technical Challenges in Abdominal Transplantation.- Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations: A Point of View from a Surgical Oncologist.- Difficult Decisions in Cardiothoracic Surgery: Acute Cardiogenic Shock.- Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations in Pediatric Surgery.- A Surgeon's Thought Process in the Management of Burn Patients.- Decision Making in Reconstructive Surgery.- Decision Making in Reconstructions for Traumatic Defects in Extremity Surgery.- The Surgeon's Burnout:  How to Deal with It.- The Surgeon's Response to a Patient Death.- When Should Surgeons Quit Operating?.

"This is a collection of presentations integrating the wisdom of multiple disciplines for effective surgical decision making. ... Surgeons at all levels of seniority are an appropriate audience for this book, which features contributions from an international collection of writers. ... This is an intriguing collection of presentations reflecting management philosophy and social issues in surgery." (David J. Dries, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2016)