Full Description
This book provides up-to-date evidence on laparoscopic emergency surgery and supplies concrete advice on when and how to approach patients laparoscopically in an emergency setting. All the diseases elegible for emergency laparoscopy are addressed, and for each disease recommendations, levels of evidence, and technical key points are discussed and analyzed. Diagnostic flow charts are included for cases in which laparoscopy turns out to be the final diagnostic step and the first therapeutic one. Furthermore, problematic and positive aspects of the laparoscopic approach from the anesthesiologic point of view are fully explored. Finally, a useful overview of current practice in hospitals across the world is provided, highlighting the varying applications in relation to different medical "cultures", skills, resources, and healthcare systems.
Contents
1.A WORLDWIDE OVERVIEW OF EMERGENCY LAPAROSCOPIC PROCEDURES.- 2.Acute calculous cholecystitis.- 3.Acute Pancreatitis.- 4.Laparoscopic appendectomy.- 5.Laparoscopy in gynecologic emergencies.- 6.Non-Specific Abdominal Pain.- 7.Perforated Gastroduodenal ulcer.- 8.Emergency laparoscopy for colon obstruction and acute diverticulitis.- 9.Laparoscopy in Small Bowel Obstruction.- 10.Incarcerated hernias.- 11.INCARCERATED INCISIONAL AND VENTRAL HERNIAS.- 12.Emergency Laparoscopy for Abdominal Trauma.- 13.Update in laparoscopic approach to Acute Mesenteric Ischemia.- 14.ANAESTHESIA AND EMERGENCY LAPAROSCOPY.- 15.Imaging in Emergency Surgery : a quickly summarized panoramic view of the radiological tools.- 16.Emergency laparoscopy - the nurse's point of view.- 17.Emergency laparoscopy in the elderly
