Acute Care Surgery Handbook

1. Acute Care Surgery Around the World: Future Perspectives
Rao R. Ivatury, Fausto Catena

2. A History of Acute Care Surgery (Emergency Surgery)
Matthew E. Kutcher, Andrew B. Peitzman

3. Scientific Research in Emergency Surgery Setting
Federico Coccolini, Giulia Montori, Marco Ceresoli, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni

4. Organization of an Acute Care Surgery Service and Patient Safety Management
Fredric M. Pieracci, Philip F. Stahel

5. Safety and the Use of Checklists in Acute Care Surgery
Yasmin Hassen, Maximilian J. Johnston, Emily Barrow, Ara Darzi

6. Emergencies in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery
Pierre Guarino, Matteo Alicandri-Ciufelli, Livio Presutti

7. Hemothorax, Pneumothorax, and Chest Empyema
Pantelis Vassiliu, Elias Degiannis

8. Anorectal Emergencies
Korhan Taviloglu

9. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Massimo Sartelli, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan

10. Surgical Site Infections and Their Management
Mark A. Malangoni

11. Nontraumatic Peripheral Vascular Emergencies
Venu Bhamidipaty, Anastasia Dean, Ian Civil

12. Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms and Major Vascular Injuries
Paolo Perini, Claudio Bianchini Massoni, Antonio Freyrie

13. Obstetrics-Gynecology Emergencies
Bruno M. Pereira, Gustavo P. Fraga

14. Genitourinary Emergencies
Rodrigo Donalisio Silva, Rodrigo Pessoa, Nicholas Westfall, Fernando J. Kim

15. Critical Care in Acute Care Surgery
Kathryn L. Butler, George Velmahos

16. Septic Shock and Resuscitation Strategies
Shariq S. Raza, Marc Moya

17. Antibiotic Management in Acute Care Surgery
Massimo Sartelli, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan

18. Nutrition in Sepsis and Acute Surgical Patients
Brodie Parent, Ronald V. Maier

19. Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Critically Ill Patients
Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Ashraf F. Hefny

20. Interventional Radiology for Nontraumatic Acute Thoraco-Abdominal Bleeding
Nicola Montanari, Antonio Affinita

21. Percutaneous Techniques for Management of Intra-abdominal Abscesses
Francesco Cinquantini, Alice Piccinini, Nicola Montanari, Andrea Biscardi, Gregorio Tugnoli, Salomone Saverio

22. Damage Control Surgery for Emergency General Surgery
Dieter G. Weber, Cino Bendinelli

23. The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Dieter G. Weber, Zsolt J. Balogh

24. Common Pediatric Surgical Emergencies
Andreas Fette

25. Common Surgical Emergencies in Transplanted Patients
Nicola de’Angelis, Francesco Brunetti, Daniel Azoulay

26. Emergency Management of Caustic Injuries
Mircea Chirica, Nicolas Munoz-Bongrand, Emile Sarfati, Pierre Cattan

27. Surgical Emergencies During Pregnancy
Goran Augustin

28. Geriatric Emergency Surgery
Torhild Veen, Jan Rune Aunan, Kjetil Søreide

Nyckelord: Medicine & Public Health, Traumatic Surgery, General Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine