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Schein's Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery

An Unconventional Book for Trainees and Thinking Surgeons

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Moshe Schein

    1. Ladysmith Center, Marshfield Clinic, Ladysmith, USA

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  2. Paul Rogers

    1. Dept. Surgery, Gartnavel Western Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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  3. Ahmad Assalia

    1. Div. Laparoscopic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA

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  • All the surgeon needs to know about emergency abdominal surgery

  • Short chapters, allocated to three sections: preoperative phase, the operation, postoperative phase

  • Written in an easy-to-read tone - concise, to the point with humorous caricatures

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (59 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. BEFORE THE OPERATION

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-14
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    2. General Philosophy

      • Moshe Schein, Paul N. Rogers, Ahmad Assalia
      Pages 1-6

    3. A Brief History of Emergency Abdominal Surgery

      • Harold Ellis
      Pages 7-12

    4. The Acute Abdomen

      • Moshe Schein
      Pages 15-23

    5. Rational Diagnostic Procedures

      • Moshe Schein
      Pages 25-31

    6. Abdominal Imaging

      • Moshe Schein, Sai Sajja, Hans Ulrich Elben
      Pages 33-55

    7. Optimizing the Patient

      • James C. Rucinski
      Pages 57-68

    8. Preoperative Antibiotics

      • Moshe Schein
      Pages 69-72

    9. Family, Ethics, Informed Consent and Medicolegal Issues

      • James C. Rucinski
      Pages 73-78

    10. Before the Flight: Pre-Op Checklist

      • Moshe Schein
      Pages 79-82

  3. THE OPERATION

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-84
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    2. The Incision

      • Moshe Schein
      Pages 85-88

    3. Abdominal Exploration: Finding What Is Wrong

      • Moshe Schein
      Pages 89-97

    4. Peritonitis: Contamination and Infection—Principles of Treatment

      • Moshe Schein, Roger Saadia
      Pages 99-105

    5. The Intestinal Anastomosis

      • Moshe Schein
      Pages 107-112

    6. Intestinal Stomas

      • Luis Carriquiry
      Pages 113-119

    7. Esophageal Emergencies

      • Thomas Anthony Horan
      Pages 121-131

    8. Diaphragmatic Emergencies

      • Ulrich Schoeffel, Moshe Schein
      Pages 133-138

    9. Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (and Portal Hypertension)

      • Moshe Schein
      Pages 139-156
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About this book

Emergency Abdominal Surgery is a battleground for the surgeon - providing character-building experiences, and opportunities for triumph and disaster. In the third  edition of this 'simple' book, emergency abdominal surgery is discussed in an informal and no nonsense fashion - as practiced in the 'trenches' of the ER and the OR. The preferred approach for a given situation is discussed in context; it has to fulfill certain prerequisites: save lives, decrease morbidity, be cost effective and be performed correctly.

Reviews

From the reviews of the third edition:

“The title describes this book perfectly. This is a no-nonsense approach to the sometimes very difficult situations in general surgery. … The authors describe their experiences in tough situations of patient care for residents and young attendings. … the historical quotes add a good amount of insight and interest. I have not come across another book like this. … Focused on the real situations that surgeons come across, the book answers the questions that are not addressed in the major textbooks.” (Robert A. Hanfland, Doody’s Review Service, September, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ladysmith Center, Marshfield Clinic, Ladysmith, USA

    Moshe Schein

  • Dept. Surgery, Gartnavel Western Hospital, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Paul Rogers

  • Div. Laparoscopic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA

    Ahmad Assalia

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Schein's Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery

  • Book Subtitle: An Unconventional Book for Trainees and Thinking Surgeons

  • Editors: Moshe Schein, Paul Rogers, Ahmad Assalia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74821-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-74821-2Published: 10 March 2010

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 650

  • Number of Illustrations: 103 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Traumatic Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Abdominal Surgery

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