THE ACUTE MANAGEMENT OF SURGICAL DISEASE

• Part 1: Introduction to Fundamental Emergency General Surgery Concepts
1. History and Evolution of Emergency General Surgery
2. Examination of the Acute Abdomen
3. Development of the AAST Disease Severity Stratification System
4. Infectious Disease Considerations
5. Primer on Practice Management Guidelines
6. Concepts in Emergency Research (Exception from Informed Consent)
7. Inter-hospital Transfers of Emergency General Surgery Patients
8. Emergency General Surgery as a Team Sport
• Part 2: Emergency General Surgery Diseases
9. Small Bowel Obstruction
10. Large Bowel Obstruction
11. Abdominal Wall Hernias
12. Acute Cholecystitis
13. Appendicitis
14. Acute Colonic Diverticulitis
15. Intestinal Ischemia
16. Perforated Peptic Ulcer
17. Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
18. Complications of Acute Pancreatitis
19. Acute and Chronic Enterocutaneous Fistula Management
20. Soft Tissue Infection
21. Perirectal Abscess
• Part 3: Critical Care for Emergency General Surgeons
22. Sepsis Resuscitation
23. Hemorrhage Resuscitation
24. Ventilator Management
25. Nutrition Considerations
26. Geriatrics and End of Life Care

Emergency General Surgery has become a cornerstone of Acute Care Surgery over the past decade. Once the scope of community general surgeons, the growing complexity of patients with acute surgical diseases has increasingly driven their care to tertiary referral centers. The aging population confounds this problem further as these patients present with more complex comorbidities, life-threatening physiology, and progressively severe anatomic disease severity. To ensure better outcomes, the practice has evolved to focus on evidence-based practice management guidelines in order to standardize care and optimize outcomes.

This text provides a comprehensive volume for any surgeon who treats patients with acute surgical diseases. The first section is a comprehensive analysis of the background of Emergency General Surgery. The goal of this section is to provide the reader background into the acute surgical practice and to introduce the reader to the important concepts discussed in the remainder of the text.
The second section discuss specific acute surgical diseases. Individual chapters outline the diagnostic approach, current treatment standards, operative approaches, and expected outcomes with an emphasis on practice management guideline implementation into practice. As acute surgical diseases and surgical critical care are integral to each other, the last section will be Critical Care for the Acute Care Surgeon. These topics focus on the critical care concepts essential to surgeons who care for acute diseases.

This comprehensive text is targeted to any surgeon who takes emergency calls for any of the listed diseases including community and referral general and vascular surgeons. In addition, this would be an excellent resource for all general surgery residents. Lastly, this would also serve as a resource to intensivists who care for acute surgical patients.

Features
• Focuses on evidence-based practice management guidelines
• Provides a comprehensive volume for patients with acute surgical diseases
• Written by experts in the field