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Emergency laparoscopic surgery in the elderly and frail patient

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Editors:
  1. Ferdinando Agresta

    1. Department of General Surgery, ULSS2 Trevigiana del veneto, Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy

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  2. Mauro Podda

    1. Policlinico Universitario Duilio Casula, AOU Cagliari, Department of Emergency Surgery, Monserrato, Italy

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  3. Fabio Cesare Campanile

    1. General Surgery, Ospedale San Giovanni Decollato - Andosilla, Civita Castellana, Italy

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  4. Carlo Bergamini

    1. Department of Emergency Surgery, AOU Careggi, Firenze, Italy

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  5. Gabriele Anania

    1. UO di chirurgia Generale e Toracica, AOU Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

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  • Discusses the major problems encountered in treating frail elderly patients suffering from emergency abdominal conditions in a concise and functional way

  • Includes diagnostic and therapeutic trips and tricks

  • Presents diagnostic and therapeutic flowcharts for quick and easy consultation in daily clinical practice

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Generalities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. How to Define an Elderly and Frail Patient?

      • Ferdinando Agresta, Carlo Bergamini, Mauro Podda, Fabio Cesare Campanile, Gabriele Anania, Stefano Volpato et al.
      Pages 3-18

    3. Defining the Burden of Emergency General Surgery in the Elderly Today

      • Elisa Cassinotti, Luigi Boni, Ludovica Baldari
      Pages 19-30

    4. A Worldwide Overview of Emergency Laparoscopic Procedure in the Elderly

      • Giancarlo D’Ambrosio, Andrea Picchetto, Stefania La Rocca, Francesca De Laurentis, Laura Rossi, Antonio Crucitti
      Pages 31-39

    5. The Economic Burden of Emergency Abdominal Surgery in the Elderly: What Is the Role of Laparoscopy?

      • Emidia Vagnoni
      Pages 41-52

    6. Goals of Care in Emergency Abdominal Surgery in the Elderly and Frail Patient

      • Antonino Agrusa, Giuseppe Di Buono, Salvatore Buscemi, Francesco Saverio Latteri, Antonio Giuseppe Biondi, Giorgio Romano
      Pages 53-60

    7. Wound Healing in Elderly and Frail Patients

      • Valerio Caracino, Pietro Coletta, Piergaspare Palumbo, Simone Castiglioni, Diletta Frazzini, Massimo Basti
      Pages 61-69

  3. Surgery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Acute Cholecystitis

      • Fabio Cesare Campanile, Monica De Angelis, Elisabetta Santucci, Ilaria Vecchioni
      Pages 73-85

    3. Cholangitis and Choledocholithiasis

      • Gennaro Perrone, Federica Gaiani, Andrea Morini, Mario Giuffrida, Gian Luigi de’ Angelis, Fausto Catena et al.
      Pages 87-93

    4. Gallstone Ileus

      • Irnerio Angelo Muttillo, Federico Coccolini, Biagio Picardi, Stefano Rossi, Edoardo Maria Muttillo, Ferdinando Agresta
      Pages 95-103

    5. Acute Pancreatitis Management in Elderly/Frail Patients

      • Angelo Iossa, Gianfranco Silecchia
      Pages 105-110

    6. Acute Appendicitis

      • Mauro Podda, Gaetano Poillucci, Chiara Gerardi, Nicola Cillara, Leonardo Montemurro, Giulia Russo et al.
      Pages 111-120

    7. Non-specific Abdominal Pain

      • Riccardo Brachet-Contul, Lorenzo Cinti, Mario Junior Nardi, Salvatore Condurro, Paolo Millo, Daniele Marrelli
      Pages 121-127

    8. Perforated Gastroduodenal Ulcer

      • Gabriele Anania, Alberto Campagnaro, Francesco Marchetti, Giuseppe Resta, Roberto Cirocchi
      Pages 129-139

    9. Gastric Outlet Obstruction in the Elderly

      • Marcello Pisano, Corrado Gromo, Francesco Autuori, Antonio Lai, Federica Frongia, Giuseppe Esposito et al.
      Pages 141-152

    10. Obstructing Colorectal Tumor

      • Alberto Arezzo, Giacomo Lo Secco, Giovanni Distefano, Edoardo Forcignanò, Mario Morino
      Pages 153-161

    11. Acute Diverticulitis

      • Monica Ortenzi, Sophie Williams, Amyn Haji, Roberto Ghiselli, Mario Guerrieri
      Pages 163-180

    12. Small Bowel Obstruction

      • Carlo Alberto Ammirati, Marco Ettore Allaix, Mauro Zago
      Pages 181-186
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About this book

The global population is aging rapidly, and as a result emergency abdominal surgery for acute abdomen in the elderly has become a global issue. Demographic changes in the population have also altered the profile of emergency abdominal surgery, with typical causes of acute abdomen in the elderly including acute cholecystitis, incarcerated hernia, bowel obstruction and appendicitis. In these patients, recovery from surgery is often complicated, leading to longer hospital stays compared with younger patients. Laparoscopy in the emergency setting is well established and offers a number of advantages over open surgical approaches, such as reduced postoperative pain, length of hospital stay and complication rates. While laparoscopic surgery for acute diverticulitis has become more widespread, in other conditions, like small bowel obstruction and perforated peptic ulcer, laparotomy is still used in about 70% of cases. Further, despite the urgent need for knowledge regarding surgical treatment of acute abdomen in the elderly, there is still a lack of evidence in this relevant clinical field.

This book analyzes the management strategies and critically evaluates the outcomes of laparoscopic emergency surgery for acute abdomen in the elderly according to the principles of evidence-based medicine. Discussing each topic clearly, and promoting the use of emergency laparoscopy in elderly patients, the book is intended for young general surgeons and surgeons in training with at least a basic knowledge of surgery for acute abdomen. It is also useful as a quick reference tool during on-call shifts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of General Surgery, ULSS2 Trevigiana del veneto, Vittorio Veneto (TV), Italy

    Ferdinando Agresta

  • Policlinico Universitario Duilio Casula, AOU Cagliari, Department of Emergency Surgery, Monserrato, Italy

    Mauro Podda

  • General Surgery, Ospedale San Giovanni Decollato - Andosilla, Civita Castellana, Italy

    Fabio Cesare Campanile

  • Department of Emergency Surgery, AOU Careggi, Firenze, Italy

    Carlo Bergamini

  • UO di chirurgia Generale e Toracica, AOU Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Gabriele Anania

About the editors

Ferdinando Agresta is Chief of the General Surgery Department of the Vittorio Veneto Hospital (North-Eastern Italy). His main field of interest is laparoscopic surgery, in particular in the emergency setting, and the analysis of the laparoscopic approach outcomes in both scheduled and emergency surgery in the elderly. He has been the main investigator in several studies on emergency and elective laparoscopy and is President of the Italian Society of Laparoscopic Surgery and New Technologies (SICE). Mauro Podda has been HPB honorary clinical fellow at the Department of Surgery of Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee (UK), and attending general surgeon with special interest in robotic gastro-intestinal surgery and acute care surgery at the Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit, San Francesco Hospital, Nuoro (Italy). He is now a consultant general and an emergency surgeon at Cagliari University Hospital. His main research fields are minimally invasive gastric, pancreatic, colorectal and general emergency surgery, and he is currently involved in the development of national and international surgical guidelines on acute appendicitis and laparoscopic ventral hernia repair.
Carlo Bergamini works at the Emergency Surgery Unit of the University Hospital of Careggi, Florence, Italy, and is a specialist in general surgery, immunology and emergency medicine. He also worked as an immunologist at Careggi hospital and as an emergency doctor at Pistoia hospital and various territorial emergency services for six years. He is an expert on internal, surgical, vascular and interventional ultrasound.
Fabio Cesare Campanile is Director of Surgery at the  Hospital of Civita Castellana (Italy), a specialist in general surgery, fellow of the American Board of Surgery, and holds a Master’s in Economics. He practices elective and emergency general surgery with a particular focus on laparoscopic and bariatric surgery. He regularly serves as a chairman or lecturer at national and international scientific meetings on laparoscopic, bariatric and emergency surgery. He is involved in the development of national and international surgical guidelines on emergency and laparoscopic surgery, and his work has been published in leading international journals.
Gabriele Anania is an Associated Professor at the University of Ferrara, and teaches general surgery at the Medical School of the same University. Currently he is the Chief of the Laparoscopic Surgery Unit at the University Hospital of Ferrara and a member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ferrara. He has been involved in research studies on laparoscopic surgery at national and international centers (e.g. RIFT Study and IMAGINE Study).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Emergency laparoscopic surgery in the elderly and frail patient

  • Editors: Ferdinando Agresta, Mauro Podda, Fabio Cesare Campanile, Carlo Bergamini, Gabriele Anania

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79990-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79989-2Published: 01 September 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79992-2Published: 02 September 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79990-8Published: 31 August 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 348

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Health Care Management, Nursing

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