Emergency General Surgery: A Practical Approach

Definition of Emergency General Surgery (EGS) and its Burden on the Society.- Evaluating the Acute Abdomen.- Imaging in Emergency General Surgery.- Antibiotics in Emergency General Surgery.- Esophageal Perforation.- Variceal Hemorrhage for the Acute Care Surgeon.- Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.- Gastroduodenal Perforations.- Benign and Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction.- Acute Cholecystitis.- Choledocholithiasis.- Acute Cholangitis.- Gallstone Ileus.- Acute Pancreatitis.- Hepatic Abscess.- Small Bowel Obstruction.- Small Bowel Perforation.- Inflammatory Bowel Disease.- Small Bowel Sources of Gastrointestinal Bleeds.- Mesenteric Ischemia.- Acute Appendicitis.- Diverticulitis.- Clostridium difficile Infection.- Large Bowel Obstruction: Current Techniques and Trends in Management.- Lower GI Bleeds.- Ischemic Colitis.- Ogilvie's Syndrome.- Colon Volvulus.- The Treatment of Peri-rectal Abscesses for the Emergency General Surgeon.- Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Hemorrhoidal Disease and the Complications of Hemorrhoidal Procedures.- Spontaneous Pneumothorax.- Empyema.- INCARCERATED INGUINAL HERNIAS.- INCARCERATED UMBILICAL AND VENTRAL HERNIA REPAIR.- PARAESOPHAGEAL HERNIA AND GASTRIC VOLVULUS.- Extremity Compartment Syndrome.- Abdominal Compartment Syndrome and the Open Abdomen.- Necrotizing soft tissue infection.- Management of Bariatric Complications for the General Surgeon.- Emergency General Surgery in the Elderly:.- Non-obstetric Emergency Surgery in the Pregnant Patient.- Emergency General Surgery in the Immunocompromised Surgical Patient.- Cirrhosis.- Surgical Palliative Care, "Heroic Surgery," and End-of-Life Care.