Emergency Surgery Course (ESC®) Manual

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Generalities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Intraoperative Strategy: Open Surgical Approach

      • Brandon R. Bruns, Ari Leppäniemi, C. William Schwab

      Pages 3-9

   3. Leading Symptoms and Signs

      • Fernando Turégano-Fuentes

      Pages 11-20

   4. Management Options: Nonoperative Versus Operative Management

      • Fernando Turégano-Fuentes, Andrés García Marín

      Pages 21-29

   5. Pathophysiology

      • Ari Leppäniemi

      Pages 31-35

   6. Postoperative Complications

      • Ronald V. Maier, Abe Fingerhut

      Pages 37-43

   7. When to Operate After Failed Nonoperative Management

      • Gregory A. Watson, Andrew B. Peitzman

      Pages 45-51

3. Techniques

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. Laparoscopy for Non-trauma Emergencies

      • Selman Uranues, Abe Fingerhut

      Pages 55-64

   3. Laparotomy

      • Eric J. Voiglio, Guillaume Passot, Jean-Louis Caillot

      Pages 65-82

   4. Lower Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

      • Halil Alis, Korhan Taviloglu

      Pages 83-91

   5. Percutaneous Interventions

      • Isidro Martínez-Casas, Dieter Morales-García, Fernando Turégano-Fuentes

      Pages 93-102

   6. Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

      • Hakan Yanar, Korhan Taviloglu

      Pages 103-108

4. By Organ

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Esophageal Emergencies

      • Demetrios Demetriades, Peep Talving, Lydia Lam

      Pages 111-123

   3. Stomach and Duodenum

      • Carlos Mesquita, Luís Reis, Fernando Turégano-Fuentes, Ronald V. Maier

      Pages 125-137

   4. Cholecystectomy for Complicated Biliary Disease of the Gallbladder

      • Abe Fingerhut, Parul Shukla, Marek Soltès, Igor Khatkov

      Pages 139-145

   5. Choledocholithiasis [Common Bile Duct (CBD) Stones]

      • René Fahrner, Abe Fingerhut

      Pages 147-151

   6. Small Bowel Emergency Surgery

      • Fausto Catena, Carlo Vallicelli, Federico Coccolini, Salomone Di Saverio, Antonio D. Pinna

      Pages 153-158

This manual explains how to make the right decisions on the timing and selection of investigations and surgical procedures in emergency and urgent surgical settings and describes the most widely used procedures step by step with the aid of high-quality illustrations. The goal is to address the situations that can arise in almost any emergency department throughout the world, enabling the surgeon on call to acquire or sharpen the knowledge and skills needed to deal with acute surgical problems in the most appropriate way. The reader will gain a sound understanding of the most efficient diagnostic modalities, pre-, intra-, and postoperative decision-making, and surgical techniques and issues in particular circumstances. The manual stems from an initiative by members of the European Society of Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ESTES) and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) to set up and formalize Emergency Surgery Courses to provide specific training in emergency and acute care surgery. It represents a didactic accompaniment to the course that will guide the beginner and maintain a certain degree of standardization among the more experienced.

• Acute care
• Decision making
• Education
• Practical Course
• Training
• Trauma Surgery

“This is a compilation of pearls for emergency surgeons from the European Society of Trauma and Emergency Surgery and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. … Senior trainees, fellows, and staff performing emergency surgery or providing anesthetic support are an appropriate audience. … Each chapter includes a reference list featuring important papers.” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Book Reviews, June, 2016)

• Surgical Research Department, Clinical Division for General Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

  Abe Fingerhut

• Department of Abdominal Surgery, University of Helsinki Meilahti Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

  Ari Leppäniemi

• Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego Health Sciences, San Diego, USA

  Raul Coimbra

• Division of General Surgery, University of Pittsburgh UPMC, Pittsburgh, USA

  Andrew B. Peitzman

• R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, USA

  Thomas M. Scalea

• Emergency Surgery Unit, University Hospitals of Lyon Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France

  Eric J. Voiglio

Abe Fingerhut, MD, is Past Chief of Surgery at the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal, Poissy, France – a post he held from 1987 until 2006. He was appointed Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Louisiana State University, New Orleans, in 1993, Professor of the Collège des Médecins des Hôpitaux de Paris in 2000, and Visiting Professor in the University of Athens in 2009. He is Doctor Honoris Causa in the University of Graz (Austria) and University of China (Taichung, Taiwan). Dr. Fingerhut is a past president of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES), founding member and past president of the International Association for Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care (IATSIC), and founding member and past president of the European Society of Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ESTES). As a surgeon, Dr. Fingerhut has focused especially on trauma, emergency and digestive surgery. He has also been heavily engaged in clinical research over the past 35 years and is the author of or has co-signed more than 400 articles or book chapters in peer-reviewed journals and major textbooks. He holds or has held positions on the editorial boards of various major journals, including the World Journal of Surgery (past European co-editor), the American Journal of Surgery (now senior member of the board), European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery and the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Dr. Fingerhut is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and Governor-at-Large representing the ACS Fellows of France (2012–2015). He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

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