Editors:
Major postoperative complications in digestive surgery are increasingly becoming frequent and need up to date and accessible coverage
All worldwide general and digestive surgeons that are engaged daily in this subject need carefully designed new standards available to them
Frequently, complications in digestive surgery are recognized too late thereby producing a high rate of morbidity and mortality, making publication of new standards urgent
A comprehensive description of these complications will help all surgeons involved in learning new practices of surgical treatment of digestive diseases (from oesophagus up to rectum)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Any surgical intervention, elective or acute, may lead to postoperative complications. Moreover, the pertaining approach - laparoscopic or open - will probably not differ in the morbidity rate after surgery.
Complications that occur after a surgical intervention can be classified as major or minor. Major complications to the digestive tract after surgery imply in most of cases a leakage of an anastomosis, bleeding in the abdominal cavity or in the tract, the appearance of intraperitoneal abscesses, or surgical site infections and wound dehiscence. These complications, depending on the organ affected, upper GI, HPB tract or colorectal, are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Early suspicion and diagnosis, followed by an early and effective treatment is imperative in order to reduce the morbidity and mortality.
Adequate treatment will involve a good coordination of the three disciplines involved in treatment: the surgeon, the intervention radiologist, and the gastroenterologist.
Approach of these postoperative complications is changing constantly and these changes are not properly known by general and more specialized digestive surgeons daily involved in the treatment of these diseases.
The proposal for this book is to offer a systematic description of the most frequent complications occurring in the three above mentioned parts of the digestive tract. In this way, the reader will have access to a practical book in which every current complication can be easily recognized, along with relevant information as guide for an adequate treatment.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The objective is to provide general surgeons with a primer on the various complications the surgeon and patient may face. … This is an excellent resource for surgeons-in-training or new staff members. … This is an excellent book. … it is a valuable guide for senior surgery residents as they begin to make the transition from the technical aspects of training to practicing as independent surgeons, managing patients during the workup, intraoperative, and postoperative phases.” (Peter Nau, Doody’s Book Reviews, April, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Miguel A. Cuesta, H. Jaap Bonjer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Treatment of Postoperative Complications After Digestive Surgery
Editors: Miguel A. Cuesta, H. Jaap Bonjer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4354-3
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4353-6Published: 11 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6923-9Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4354-3Published: 22 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 332
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gastroenterology, Endocrinology