This book contains literature reviews describing some of the diseases
and pathological conditions that occur in emergency surgical practice. The
problems described are relevant for emergency abdominal surgery. Topics covered
includes:The Dilemma of Acute Appendicitis, Management of Intestinal
Obstruction, Risk Factors and Predictive Models for Conversion of Laparoscopic
Cholecystectomy to Open Surgery, and Surgical Quality Outcome Measures,
Gastrointestinal Foreign Bodies, Non-Surgical Causes of Acute Abdominal Pain,
Physiotherapy Following Emergency Abdominal Surgery, Liver Trauma, Damage
Control Surgery and Emergency Abdominal Surgery in Infants and Children
Joseph Bell was a famous
Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the
19th century. His aim has been to describe as simply as possible those
operations which are most likely to prove useful, and especially those which,
from their nature, admit of being practised on the dead body.
This note
covers the following topics: General Anesthesia, Sexual Misconduct,
HeadNeckSurgery, Postop Analgesia, Pregnant Patient, Evaluation of Abdominal
Trauma, Diabetes for Surgeons, perioperative Pain Management, Endocrinology for
the Surgeon.