(eBook) Complications in Acute Care Surgery by Jose J. Diaz

This is the PDF eBook version for Complications in Acute Care Surgery – The Management of Difficult Clinical Scenarios by Jose J. Diaz, David T. Efron

Table of Contents

Challenging IV Access in the Patient with Septic Shock.- Fluids in Septic Shock: Crystalloid, Colloids, or Blood?.- Resuscitation of the Patient in Severe Septic Shock.- Intra-peritoneal Resuscitation in Trauma and Sepsis: Management Options for the Open Abdomen.- How to Feed the Open Abdomen.- Intra-Abdominal Hypertension and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Acute Care Surgery.- Empyema in the Acute Care Surgical Patient.- Gastric.- The Complicated Cholecystectomy and Management of Perforation Post-ERCP.- Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis.- Small Bowel: The Problematic Duodenal Perforation.- Small Bowel: Aortoenteric Fistula.- Small Bowel: Pneumatosis Intestinalis.- Colon: Long Hartmann and Rectal Stump Blowout.- Rectum: Management of the Urgen APR & Dissecting the “Frozen” Pelvis.- Complex Liver Abscess.- The Complex Splenectomy.- Soft Tissue Necrotizing Infection Due to Perforated Colon.- The Planning for the “Planned Ventral Hernia”.- Post-Bariatric Complications-Leaks.- The Problem Stoma.- The Immunosuppressed Patient.- Management of Anastomotic Leaks-Early 7 Days.- The Re-Laparotomy in the Delayed (2-3 week) Post-Operative Period.- The Management of the Entero-Atmospheric Fistula (EAF).- Unresectable Malignancy and Bowel Obstruction in the Acute Care Surgery Patient.- Jehovah’s Witness and the Bleeding Surgical Patient.