Acute Care Surgery Handbook

Volume 1: 1. Acute care surgery around the world: future perspectives.-&nbsp;2. A history of acute care suregry.- 3. Scientific Research in emergency surgery setting.- 4. Organization of an acute care surgery service and patient safety management.- 5. Safety and the use of checklists in acute care surgery.- 6. Emergencies in otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery.- 7. Hemothorax, pneumothorax and chest empyema.- 8. Anorectal emergencies.- &nbsp;9. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections.- 10. Surgical Site Infections and their Management.- 11. Non-Traumatic Peripheral Vascular Emergencies.- 12. Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms and major vascular injuries.- 13. Obstetrics-Gynecology Emergencies.- 14. Genito Urinary Emergencies.- 15. Critical Care in Acute Care Surgery.- 16. Septic Shock and Resuscitation Strategies.-&nbsp;17. Antibiotic management in acute care surgery.- 18. Nutrition in sepsis and acute surgical patients.- 19. Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Critically-Ill Patients.- 20. Interventional Radiology for non-traumatic acute thoraco-abdominal bleeding.- 21. Percutaneous Techniques for Management of Intra-Abdominal Abscesses.- 22. Damage Control Surgery for Emergency General Surgery.- 23. The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.- 24. Common Pediatric Surgical Emergencies.- 25. Common Surgical Emergencies in Transplanted Patients.- 26. Emergency management of caustic injuries.- 27. Surgical emergencies during pregnancy.- 28. Geriatric Emergency Surgery.<div>Volume 2: 1 Acute Abdomen: Clinical assessment and decision making.- 2&nbsp; Diagnostic tools in ACS, when and how: CT scan, diagnostic laparoscopy and exploratory laparotomy.- 3 Laparoscopy: a new diagnostic and therapeutic tool for Acute Care Surgery.- 4 Oesophageal non-bleeding emergencies: Minimally&nbsp;invasive and endoscopic management of oesophageal perforations.- 5&nbsp;Management of postoperative complications in Esophago-gastric Surgery.-&nbsp;6&nbsp;Management of Complicated and Strangulated Hiatial Hernias.- 7&nbsp;Upper GI bleeding&nbsp;.- 8&nbsp;Perforated peptic ulcer&nbsp;.-&nbsp;9&nbsp;Acute small bowel bleeding.- 10&nbsp;Colorectal bleeding emergencies.- 11&nbsp;Acute pancreatitis.-&nbsp;12&nbsp;Acute cholecystitis and cholangitis&nbsp;.-&nbsp;13&nbsp;Endoscopic techniques for biliary and pancreatic acute diseases.-&nbsp;&nbsp;14&nbsp;Laparoscopic techniques for Acute Cholecystitis and biliary drainage.-&nbsp;15&nbsp;PREVENTION OF BILIARY INJURIES IN ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS.- 16 Small bowel obstruction.-17 Large Bowel Obstruction.- 18&nbsp;Endoscopic management of LBO.- &nbsp;19 Management of colonic diverticulitis.- 20 Laparoscopy for perforated acute diverticulitis.- 21&nbsp;Incarcerated and strangulated abdominal wall hernias.-&nbsp;22 Acute Appendicitis: Diagnosis &nbsp;and Non operative management.- &nbsp;23&nbsp;Management of complicated appendicitis: Percutaneous drainage and interval appendectomy or immediate surgery? open or laparoscopic surgery.- 24&nbsp;Laparoscopy, SILS and NOTES for Acute Appendicitis.- 25 Small bowel perforations and SB miscellaneous acute diseases.- 26 Acute mesenteric ischemia.- 27&nbsp;Open abdomen strategies in Acute Care Surgery: when and how.- 28&nbsp;Entero-atmospheric fistulas.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>