Main description:

This book aims to familiarize readers with the most common acute surgery topics encountered in clinical practice and is unique in its use of infographics. It will be used in clinical rotations in surgery as a supplement to the knowledge gained, and will also provide instructors with a complementary tool, offering a wide-ranging guide to general aspects of acute surgery, with some hints on gynecologic and urologic emergencies.

The book is intended to provide medical students and junior residents in medicine or surgery with a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most relevant operative techniques.

Contents:

1 Preoperative Labs And Tests

2 Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation

3 Preoperative Pulmonary Evaluation

4 The Abc's of Medical Imaging

5 Appendicitis

6 Acute Cholecystopathy

7 Acute Pancreatitis

8 Acute Diverticulitis

9 Small Bowel Obstruction

10 Large Bowel Obstruction (Lbo)

11 Clostridioides Difficile Colitis

12 Upper Gastroitestinal Bleeding

13 Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding

14 Variceal Bleeding

15 Caustic Ingestion

16 Neutropenic Enterocolitis

17 Acute Mesenteric Ischemia

18 Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

19 Aortic Dissection

20 Peripheral Arterial Embolism

21 Hypercoagulability

22 Bleeding Disorders