This volume offers authoritative, evidence-based recommendations for preventing and managing complications in all current general surgery procedures. The opening sections discuss institutional risk management issues and risks common to all operations, such as wound healing problems, infection, shock, and complications in immunosuppressed patients. Subsequent sections focus on complications of specific procedures in thoracic, vascular, gastric, endocrine, breast, and oncologic surgery, as well as organ transplantation and pediatric surgery.
For each procedure, the authors discuss surgical goals, expected outcomes, preoperative identification of risk factors, intraoperative technique, and postoperative risk. Numerous decision-making algorithms, drawings of techniques, and tables complement the text.
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Surgical complications
3
2
Contemporary surgical training
5
3
Future surgical training
9
4
Continuing education for praticing surgeons
18
5
Surgical credentials
25
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Assessing surgical quality with structure and process of care measures
30
7
Assessing surgical quality with clinical outcomes measures
45
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Assessment of perioperative risk
59
9
Anesthesia complications
69
10
Complications of wound healing
102
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Surgical site infections
114
12
Septic shock
126
13
Hypovolemic shock
136
14
Fluid and electrolyte abnormalities
144
15
Acute renal failure
150
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Pulmonary complications
157
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Cardiac complications
174
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Abnormalities in coagulation
185
19
Complications of nutritional support
195
20
Complications of immunosuppression
212
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Complications of intubation, tracheotomy, and tracheal surgery
227
22
Complications of esophageal surgery
245
23
Complications of pulmonary and chest wall surgery
264
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Complications of extracorporeal circulation
277
25
Complications of surgical coronary revascularization
286
26
Complications of valvular cardiac surgery
298
27
Complications of thoracoscopy
306
28
Complications of arterial surgery
317
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Complications of venous disease and therapy
337
30
Complications of endovascular therapy
357
31
Complications of gastric surgery
385
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Complications of hepatic surgery
407
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Complications of biliary surgery
423
34
Complications of pancreatic surgery
463
35
Complications of intestinal surgery : small bowel
477
36
Complications of appendectomy and colon and rectal surgery
498
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Complications of abdominal wall and hernia operations
523
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Complications of laparoscopic surgery
546
39
Complications of adrenal surgery
557
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Complications of thyroid and parathyroid surgery
575
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Complications in endocrine pancreatic surgery
594
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Complications of breast surgery
603
43
Complications of soft-tissue tumor surgery
619
44
Complications of lymphadenectomy
628
45
Complications of renal transplantation
639
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Complications of liver transplantation
655
47
Complications of pancreatic transplantation
665
48
Complications of pulmonary transplantation
683
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Complications of heart transplantation
700
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Surgical complications in newborns
725
51
Surgical complications in children
764