Schein's Common Sense. Prevention and Management of Surgical Complications for Surgeons, Residents, Lawyers and Even Those Who Never Have Any…

Description:

The enthusiastic feedback received from readers of the international bestseller Schein's Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery (now in its 3rd edition, translated to seven languages; Springer Verlag; ISBN 978- 3540748205) inspired the editors to do a similar book dedicated to surgical complications: practical, non-formal, internationally relevant (in all types of practice and levels of hospitals) – and definitely not politically correct: what is considered taboo by others is not taboo for us; here we discuss everything!

As in the editors’ previous book, the use of references is restricted to the absolute minimum, and citing figures and percentages is avoided as much as possible. The chapters in this book are the opinion of experts – each contributor has a vast personal knowledge and clinical experience in the field he is writing about. This book will help all surgeons (and their patients), avoid the misery of complications, and will provide advice on the management of those that are unavoidable. Complications and death are an integral component of surgery. Surgeons have to look death in the eyes, try to prevent it and vanquish it – this is what this book is all about.

"Schein’s books are always terrific reads, conveying pithy observations and practical advice and doing so with wit and scholarship. This latest is surely a must for every surgeon’s bookshelf." Abraham Verghese MD, author of 'CUTTING FOR STONE'

Authors

Moshe Schein MD FACS General Surgeon, Marshfield Clinic, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA; Paul N. Rogers MBChB MBA MD FRCS Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon, The Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK; Ari Leppäniemi MD Head of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, University of Helsinki, Finland; Danny Rosin MD Attending General and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon, University of Tel Aviv, Israel

Table of Contents

PART I — GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

Chapter 1
What are complications? Definitions, classification and ruminations
Moshe Schein, Paul N. Rogers, Ari Leppäniemi and Danny Rosin

Chapter 2
Preventing morbidity and mortality (M&M): general principles
Moshe Schein, Paul N. Rogers, Ari Leppäniemi and Danny Rosin

Chapter 3
Hemostasis and bleeding
Samir Johna and Moshe Schein

Chapter 4
Postoperative infections
Moshe Schein

Chapter 5
The wound, the wound…
Moshe Schein, Paul N. Rogers, Ari Leppäniemi and Danny Rosin

Chapter 6
Leaking gastrointestinal anastomoses

Section 1. Basic considerations
Moshe Schein
Section 2. The esophagus
John Hunter
Section 3. Stomach and duodenum
Wen-hao Tang
Section 4. Small intestine
Moshe Schein and Mark Cheetham
Section 5. Large bowel and rectum
Caitlin W. Hicks and Jonathan E. Efron

Chapter 7
Abdominal wall dehiscence
Moshe Schein, Paul N. Rogers, Ari Leppäniemi and Danny Rosin

Chapter 8
Ileus and early postoperative small bowel obstruction (EPSBO)
Moshe Schein

Chapter 9
Minimal access surgery
Danny Rosin

Chapter 10
Dealing with patients, families, lawyers and yourself
Avi Rubinstein and Moshe Schein

Chapter 11
The developing ('Third') World
B. Ramana

Chapter 12
Going to the country: the rural situation
Moshe Schein

PART II — SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS

Chapter 13
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Ronald V. Maier

Chapter 14
Colon and rectum (and the humble anus)
Mark Cheetham

Chapter 15
Hernias
Danny Rosin

Chapter 16
The gallbladder and bile ducts
Danny Rosin, Paul N. Rogers and Moshe Schein

Chapter 17
The appendix
Moshe Schein

Chapter 18
The pancreas
Gregory Sergeant, Mickaël Lesurtel and Pierre-Alain Clavien

Chapter 19
The liver
Erik Schadde and Pierre-Alain Clavien

Chapter 20
The breast
Danny Rosin

Chapter 21
The thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands
Saba Balasubramanian

Chapter 22
Vascular surgery
Paul N. Rogers

Chapter 23
Bariatric surgery
Ahmad Assalia

Chapter 24
Trauma
Ari Leppäniemi

Chapter 25
Pediatric surgery
Graeme Pitcher

Chapter 26
Urology
Zohar A. Dotan

Epilogue
Lessons learned from surgical complications
David Dent

Index