Acute Care Surgery

The practice of general and trauma surgery frequently involves a broadrange of emergency situations. Surgeons must be familiar withdiagnosis and operative management principles in the fast-pacedenvironment of the emergency setting. EMERGENCY SURGERY: PRINCIPLESAND PRACTICE comprehensively presents the full spectrum of surgicalemergencies, including trauma and non-traumatic acute surgicaldiseases of the abdominal, pelvic, and cardiothoracic organs as wellas the extremities, skin and soft tissue, and head and neck.Management of surgical infections is also discussed.Edited by an internationally renowned trio of experts,EMERGENCY SURGERY is the ideal reference text for surgical trainees aswell as practicing surgeons. Authoritative, comprehensive, and user-friendly, the text features over 40 chapters complete with casestudies as well as question and answer commentaries. Every chapterbegins with a box highlighting the key points and current areas ofcontroversy. In addition to clinically focused discussions on surgicalemergencies in all the major organ systems, the editors includechapters on basic principles of initial assessment and earlyresuscitation, anesthesia and emergency surgery, the intensive careunit, pharmacology and pharmacokinetics in the emergency setting, andmanagement of the hemodynamically labile patient. In addition, atimely section on ethics and legal issues discusses the challenges ofproviding care in the emergency setting with chapters on advanceddirectives, informed consents, and organ procurement. The text isaugmented by more than 500 tables and illustrations. EMERGENCY SURGERYis destined to be the gold-standard reference for surgeons faced withsplit-second decision making in the acute setting.