Emergency Vascular Surgery. A Practical Guide

• Provides concise guidance on the surgical management of a wide variety of emergent vascular problems
• Permits rapid retrieval of information in the emergency room
• Serves both as a comprehensive text and as a hands-on guide

This book provides clear, concise guidance on the surgical management of all kinds of emergent vascular problems and focuses in particular on open surgical strategies. The aim is to provide a combined text and hands-on guide that will permit rapid retrieval of information when treating vascular surgical patients in the emergency room.

Emergency Vascular Surgery: A Practical Guide is organized into two sections, on specific body areas and general concepts. The first section covers the body from head to toe, with separate chapters for injuries and non-traumatic disease, while the second discusses general principles relating to emergent vascular surgical practice and provides broad vascular surgical guidelines for the inexperienced surgeon. Chapters in the first section are uniformly organized, addressing incidence, etiology, and pathophysiology; clinical presentation; suggestions for workup and diagnosis; and management and treatment. Initial management, selection of patients for emergent surgery, and the performance of common vascular surgical procedures are all carefully explained. The focus on a hands-on approach and practical tips will be invaluable in the clinical setting for both more experienced surgeons and newcomers to the field.

Eric Wahlberg gained an MD from Karolinska Institutet Medical School in 1988 and a PhD in Vascular Physiology from Karolinska Institutet in 1994. He received his board certification in General Surgery in Sweden in the same year and subsequently served as a Cardiothoracic Fellow at Ulleval Hospital, Norway, and a Vascular Fellow at the University of California. In his subsequent career he has been Associate Professor of Surgery at Karolinska Hospital; Section Chief, Vascular Surgery, at Uppsala University Hospital; Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Research at the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation; Professor of Vascular Surgery at Linkoping University; and Managing Director of the Hospital for Cardiovascular Diseases, Surgery, and Oncology at Linkoping University Hospital. He has also worked as a principal medical scientific expert for Novartis Pharma AG. Dr. Wahlberg has published almost 100 original and review articles as well as four books and a number of book chapters.

He is on the editorial boards of three journals and the advisory boards of four international and five national pharmaceutical companies.

Jerry Goldstone is affiliated with Case Western Reserve University Hospital of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.