Acute Care Surgery Handbook

1. Acute Abdomen: Clinical Assessment and Decision-Making
Fernando Turégano

2. Diagnostic Tools in ACS: CT Scan, Diagnostic Laparoscopy, and Exploratory Laparotomy
Ning Lu, Walter L. Biffl

3. Laparoscopy: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tool for Acute Care Surgery
Selman Uranues, Abe Fingerhut, Orhan Veli Ozkan

4. Esophageal Non-bleeding Emergencies: Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Management of Esophageal Perforations
Stefano Siboni, Luigi Bonavina

5. Management of Postoperative Complications in Esophagogastric Surgery
Emanuele Asti, Luigi Bonavina

6. Management of Complicated and Strangulated Hiatal Hernias
Smita Sihag, David W. Rattner

7. Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage
Michael D. Kelly

8. Management of Perforated Peptic Ulcer
Kjetil Søreide, Kenneth Thorsen

9. Small Bowel Bleeding
B. Simone, F. Coccolini, L. Ansaloni, S. Saverio, M. Sartelli, F. Catena

10. Colorectal Bleeding Emergencies
Leslie Kobayashi, Raul Coimbra

11. Acute Pancreatitis
Ari Leppäniemi

12. Acute Cholecystitis and Cholangitis
Federico Coccolini, Andrea Allegri, Marco Ceresoli, Giuseppe D’Amico, Asaf Harbi, Giulia Montori, Gabriela Nita, Francesca Rubertà, Michele Pisano, Luca Ansaloni

13. Endoscopic Techniques for Biliary and Pancreatic Acute Diseases
Stefania Ghersi, Marco Bassi, Carlo Fabbri, Anna Larocca, Vincenzo Cennamo

14. Laparoscopy in Surgical Emergencies
David Costa-Navarro, Manuel Romero-Simó

15. Prevention of Biliary Injuries in Acute Cholecystitis
Jose Schiappa

16. Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction (ASBO)
B. Simone, G. Rossi, H. Abongwa, S. Saverio, F. Coccolini, M. Sartelli, H. van Goor, L. Ansaloni, F. Catena

17. Large Bowel Obstruction
Chasen Croft, Doug Kwazneski, Frederick Moore

18. Endoscopic Management of Large Bowel Obstruction
Marco Bassi, Stefania Ghersi, Carlo Fabbri, Anna Larocca, Vincenzo Cennamo

19. Management of Colonic Diverticulitis
Federico Coccolini, Massimo Sartelli, Giulia Montori, Marco Ceresoli, Fausto Catena, Salomone Saverio, Sandra Vennix, Willem Bemelman, Luca Ansaloni

20. Laparoscopy for Perforated Acute Diverticulitis
Matteo Mandrioli, Sandra Vennix, Arianna Birindelli, Antonio Tarasconi, Ferdinando Agresta, Giampiero Campanelli, Gregorio Tugnoli, Anna Larocca, Stefano Pretolani, Vincenzo Cennamo, Elio Jovine, Willem A. Bemelman, Salomone Saverio

21. Incarcerated and Strangulated Abdominal Wall Hernias
Massimo Sartelli, Fausto Catena, Salomone Saverio, Federico Coccolini, Luca Ansaloni

22. Acute Appendicitis: Diagnosis and Nonoperative Management
Roland E. Andersson

23. Management of Complicated Appendicitis: Percutaneous Drainage and Interval Appendectomy or Immediate Surgery? Open or Laparoscopic Surgery?
Kazuhide Matsushima, Kenji Inaba, Demetrios Demetriades

24. Laparoscopy, SILS, and NOTES for Acute Appendicitis
Matteo Mandrioli, Aneel Bhangu, Kjetil Soreide, Arianna Birindelli, Ferdinando Agresta, Stefano Pretolani, Alice Piccinini, Francesca Nigro, Elio Jovine, Salomone Saverio

25. Small Bowel Perforations and Small Bowel Miscellaneous Acute Diseases
B. Sakakushev

26. Acute Mesenteric Ischemia
Miklosh Bala, Jeffry Kashuk

27. Open Abdomen Strategies in Acute Care Surgery: When and How
Michael Sugrue

28. Entero-atmospheric Fistula: Tips and Tricks for the Management of a Surgical Nightmare
Antonio Tarasconi, Matteo Mandrioli, Arianna Birindelli, Luca Donato, Alice Piccinini, Sara Pellegrini, Dominik A. Walczak, Mario Martinotti, Gregorio Tugnoli, Salomone Saverio

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