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Non-Traumatic Acute Surgical Problems

An Infographic Guide

  • 1st Edition - September 16, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Constantine P. Spanos
  • Language: English

Non-Traumatic Acute Surgical Problems: An Infographic Guide is curated to offer a comprehensive understanding of acute surgical challenges, excluding trauma. Tailored specif… Read more

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Non-Traumatic Acute Surgical Problems: An Infographic Guide is curated to offer a comprehensive understanding of acute surgical challenges, excluding trauma. Tailored specifically for medical students navigating their surgical rotations and seasoned instructors in the field, this guide serves as an indispensable resource. Each chapter serves as a path through the intricacies of acute surgical conditions with clarity and depth. Contents provide insight into the complexities of acute cholecystopathy, appendicitis, and acute pancreatitis, providing invaluable insights into diagnosis and sophisticated management strategies. This book navigates through the labyrinth of gastrointestinal bleeding scenarios, encompassing upper, lower, and variceal bleeding, as well as formidable challenges like caustic ingestion and esophageal perforation. Contents further cover vascular emergencies, unraveling the mysteries of aortic dissection, peripheral arterial embolism, and hypercoagulability, while mastering essential principles for timely and effective intervention. Coverage includes the subtleties of urological emergencies such as renal colic, pyelonephritis, and testicular torsion, alongside gynecological conditions including ectopic pregnancy and pelvic inflammatory disease.

With a wealth of information, thoughtfully structured in an accessible format, this book not only empowers but emboldens its readers. Equipped with knowledge, insight, and confidence, individuals traversing the realm of acute surgical problems are fortified to navigate the challenges of real-world clinical settings with unwavering competence and assurance.

Key features

  • Serves as a definitive resource, providing a comprehensive guide to acute surgical problems, incorporating up-to-date diagnostic modalities, staging and classification systems, and therapeutic approaches
  • Features engaging infographics that utilize basic illustrations, color-coded symbols, and concise text, making complex information easily understandable for readers
  • Each topic is efficiently covered through 1–3 infographic illustrations, allowing readers to grasp key information without the need for extensive text or complicated algorithms

Readership

Medical students on surgical rotations

Table of contents

1. Preoperative labs and tests

2. Preoperative cardiac evaluation

3. Preoperative pulmonary evaluation

4. The ABCs of medical imaging

5. Appendicitis

6. Acute cholecystopathy

7. Acute pancreatitis

8. Acute diverticulitis

9. Anorectal abscess

10. Clostridioides difficile colitis

11. Infectious colitis

12. Small bowel obstruction

13. Large bowel obstruction (LBO)

14. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding

15. Lower gastrointestinal bleeding

16. Variceal bleeding

17. Gastroduodenal perforation

18. Caustic ingestion

19. Esophageal perforation

20. Neutropenic enterocolitis

21. Anal disease in neutropenic patients

22. Acute mesenteric ischemia

23. Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm

24. Aortic dissection

25. Peripheral arterial embolism

26. Hypercoagulability

27. Bleeding disorders

28. Renal colic

29. Pyelonephritis

30. Hematuria

31. Urinary retention

32. Acute scrotal emergencies

33. Ovarianeadnexal torsion

34. Pelvic inflammatory disease

35. Tubo-ovarian abscess

36. Spontaneous abortion

37. Postabortion endometritis

38. Ectopic pregnancy

39. Ruptured ectopic pregnancy

40. Esophageal atresia

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 16, 2024
  • Language: English

About the author

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Constantine P. Spanos

Constantine P. Spanos is a Professor of Surgery at the Aristotelian University in Thessaloniki, Greece. He obtained his MD from the Aristotle University School of Medicine in 1992. After an internship year at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he trained in General Surgery at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He subsequently pursued fellowship training in Colon and Rectal Surgery at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the American College of Thessaloniki. He is currently certified (and recertified) by both the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons as well as the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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