Presents the spectrum of surgical emergencies, including trauma and non-traumatic acute surgical diseases of the abdominal, pelvic, and cardiothoracic organs as well as the extremities, skin and soft tissue, and head and neck. This book discusses management of surgical infections. It is useful for surgical trainees as well as practicing surgeons.

In addition to clinically focused discussions on surgical emergencies in all the major organ systems, the editors include chapters on basic principles of initial assessment and early resuscitation, anesthesia and emergency surgery, the intensive care unit, pharmacology and pharmacokinetics in the emergency setting, and management of the hemodynamically labile patient. In addition, a timely section on ethics and legal issues discusses the challenges of providing care in the emergency setting with chapters on advanced directives, informed consents, and organ procurement. The text is augmented by more than 500 tables and illustrations. emergency surgery is destined to be the gold-standard reference for surgeons faced with split-second decision making in the acute setting.

General Principles: Initial Assessment and Early Resuscitation.- Operating Theater for Acute Care Surgery.- Anesthesia and Acute Care Surgery.- Fundamental Operative Approaches in Acute Care Surgery.- The Perioperative Management of the Acute Surgical Patient.- Hemodynamically Labile Patient.- Principles and Practice of Nutritional Support in Surgical Patients.- The Intensive Care Unit.- Burns.- Electrical and Lightning Injuries.- Soft Tissue Infections.- The Open Abdomen.- Acute Care Surgery and the Elderly.- Acute Care Surgery in the Rural Setting.- PreHospital Care in the Acute Setting.- Disaster and Mass Casualty Management.- Principles of Injury Prevention and Control.- Surgical Simulation in Acute Care Surgery.- Principles and Practice of Acute Care Surgery: Pharynx and Larynx.- Head and Neck.- Esophageal.- Cranial and Spinal.- Chest Wall.- Pulmonary.- Cardiac Trauma.- Thoracic Aorta.- Diaphragm.- Abdominal Wall.- Small Intestine.- Hepatic and Biliary.- Pancreatic.- Splenic.- Vascular.- Anorectal and Colorectal.- Urogenital.- Pelvic Ring Fractures.- Lower Extremities.- The Hand and Upper Extremity.- Peripheral Vascular.- Administration, Ethics, and Law: Understanding the Latest Changes in EMTALA.- Informed Surgical Consent.- Advance Directives.- The Nonviable Patient and Organ Procurement.- Ethical Dilemmas and the Law.- System and Curriculum Development: Development of a Regional System for Surgical Emergencies (RSSE).- The Curriculum.- The Vanderbilt Model.- International Communities: United Kingdom.- Australia.- Japan.