Critical Care Surgery: Handbooks in General Surgery / Edition 1

by Kirby I. Bland, Michael G. Sarr, Markus W. Büchler, Attila Csendes, Oliver James Garden

Overview

Critical Care Surgery provides an illustrative, instructive, and comprehensive review that depicts the rationale of basic operative principles essential to surgical therapy in the critically ill patient. The chapters provide pertinent and concise, summaries of how to deal with various types of critical illness, including acute renal failure, coma and altered mental status, multiple organ dysfunction and hepatic failure. Stages of operative approaches with relevant technical considerations are outlined in a straightforward manner, and complications are reviewed when appropriate for the organ system and problem. The text is illustrated throughout by line drawings and photographs that depict anatomic or technical principles. A concise, handbook-sized reference work, this book is a valuable resource for all general surgeons and residents in training.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849963770
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	10/13/2010
Series:	Handbooks in General Surgery
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

This book is edited by a team of experts from across the globe. Kirby I. Bland, MD, is based at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, in the USA, where he is the Fay Fletcher Kerner Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, and the Deputy Director at the Comprehensive Cancer. Michael G. Sarr, MD is the James C. Marson Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN in the USA. Markus W. Büchler, MD, is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Attila Csendes, MD FACS(Hon) is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University Hospital in Santiago, Chile. O. James Garden, MBChB MD FRCS(Ed) FRCP(Ed) FRACS(Hon), is the Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Department of Clinical and Surgical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh and Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the UK. John Wong, BSc(Med(Syd)) MBBS(Syd) PhD(Syd) MD(Hon(Syd)) FRACS FRCS(Edin) FRCS(Glasg) FACS(Hon) is the Chair Professor for the Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong and Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, China.

Table of Contents

1 Acute Renal Failure Paul E. Bankey 1

2 Monitoring of Respiratory Function and Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation Philip S. Barie Soumitra R. Eachempati 21

3 Coma and Altered Mental Status in the Surgical Critical Care Setting; Brain Death Joshua M. Levine M. Scan Grady 49

4 Management of Cardiac Arrhythmias Rebecca C. Britt L.D. Britt 75

5 Do Not Resuscitate, Do Not Treat Laurence B. McCullough James W. Jones 85

6 Multiple Organ Dysfunction: The Systemic Host Response to Critical Surgical Illness John C. Marshall 93

7 Hepatic Failure Patrick K. Kim Clifford S. Deutschman 109

8 General Principles of Sepsis Gordon L. Carlson Paul M. Dark 121

9 Neurologic Physiology: The Brain and Its Response to Injury Mamerhi O. Okor James M. Markert 139

10 Pulmonary Embolism Lisa K. McIntyre Lorrie A. Langdale 157

11 Right Ventricular Failure and Cardiogenic Shock James K. Kirklin Aycsha S. Bryant 173

12 Nosocomial Pneumonia Priya Sampathkumar 195

13 Gastrointestinal Failure Lena M. Napolitano 211

14 Diabetes Mellitus and Diabetes Insipidus Martin D. Smith Jacobus S. Vermaak 233

Index 249