Emergency Laparoscopy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Agresta, Ferdinando (Editor), Campanile, Fabio Cesare (Editor), Anania, Gabriele (Editor), Bergamini, Carlo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Interventional radiology.; Abdominal surgery.; Minimally invasive surgery.; Traumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Abdominal Surgery.; Traumatic Surgery.; Emergency Medicine.; Minimally Invasive Surgery.; Interventional Radiology.

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 evid...

Table of 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 .