Surgical complications : diagnosis & treatment / editors, Nadey S. Hakim, Vassilios E. Papalois.

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As Professor Owen H. Wangensteen, one of the greatest academic surgeons of the 20th century, said : "You are a true surgeon from the moment you are able to deal with your complications." Prompt and accurate diagnosis, as well as effective treatment, of surgical complications is one of the most important elements of surgical practice. This is today more important than at any other time, since over the last 20 years we have witnessed the development of new surgical sub-specialties, the performing of complicated operations in very challenging patients, the introduction of new technologies in surgical practice and, last but not least, an increasing interest in monitoring the quality, medico-legal implications, and ethical dimensions of surgical practice and malpractice. As surgical complications have been presented briefly and sporadically in various books and only as a small part of chapters dealing with surgical techniques, there is a pressing need for a modern textbook dealing with the diagnosis, treatment, auditing, medico-legal implications and ethical problems related to surgical complications. Written by internationally known authors, the chapters deal with both the general issues regarding the surgical complications and the specific issues related to each surgical specialty. Each chapter includes : clinical presentation; diagnosis (clinical, laboratory investigations, imaging); treatment (conservative, surgical); and outcome

Ch. 1. A history of surgical complications / Allan Chapman -- ch. 2. Anaesthetic complications / Christopher Johnstone and Nick Pace -- ch. 3. Cardiopulmonary complications / Carlos M.H. Gomez -- ch. 4. Surgical infections / Nazar A. Mustafa, Vasillios E. Papalois and Nadey S. Hakim -- ch. 5. Surgical wound complications / Umraz Khan -- ch. 6. Complications in breast surgery / Lisa A. Newman and Vernon K. Sondak -- ch. 7. Complications of head and neck surgery / Patrick J. Bradley and Antony A. Narula -- ch. 8. Complications of cardiothoracic surgery / Joanna Chikwe and Thanos Athanasiou -- ch. 9. Complications of vascular surgery / Christopher N. Compton, Navyash Gupta and Michel S. Makaroun -- ch. 10. Complications of surgery of the upper gastrointestinal tract / Colleen B. Gaughan, Alexander A. Parikh and John M. Daly -- ch. 11. Complications of colorectal surgery / Paul B. Boulos and Austin O'Bichere -- ch. 12. Complications of major hepatobiliary surgery / David J. Reich. [and others] -- ch. 13. Complications of pancreatic surgery / Nicholas Alexakis [and others] -- ch. 14. Complications of splenectomy / Basil Ch. Golematis, Ilias P. Gomatos and Manousos M. Konstadoulakis -- ch. 15. Complications of groin hernia surgery / Enrico Nicolo -- ch. 16. Complications in endocrine surgery / Panagiotis B. Kekis [and others] -- ch. 17. Surgical complications in paediatric surgery / Muhammad Tariq Dosani, Nadey S. Hakim and Vassilios E. Papalois -- ch. 18. Complications of urological surgery / Tamsin J. Greenwell and Anthony R. Mundy -- ch. 19. Complications of gynaecological surgery / Krishen Sieunarine and J. Richard Smith -- ch. 20. Complications of neurosurgery / Wolff M. Kirsch and Lloyd Dayes -- ch. 21. Complications in orthopaedic surgery / Wael Dandachli and Justin P. Cobb -- ch. 22. Complications of microsurgery / Earl Owen -- ch. 23. Complications of plastic and reconstructive surgery / Ivo Pitanguy, Henrique N. Radwanski and Natale Ferreira Gontijo De Amorim -- ch. 24. Complications of minimally invasive surgery / Rajesh Aggarwal, Shabnam Undre and Ara Darzi -- ch. 25. Complications in transplantation surgery / Konstantinos Vlachos [and others] -- ch. 26. Complications of the gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures and their management / David Westaby and Panagiotis Vlavianos -- ch. 27. Complications of interventional radiological pocedures / Gabriel Conder and Wady Gedroyc -- ch. 28. Psychiatric complications related to surgical procedures / Justin L. Dwyer and Steven Reid -- ch. 29. Medico-legal issues / Victoria J. Mansell and Martin A. Mansell.

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