Chapter 1 The evolving role of the preoperative assessment team Liz Kenny SUMMARY This chapter will describe: • the development of preoperative assessment in the UK • the development of…
Chapter 3 History taking Hilary Walsgrove SUMMARY This chapter will describe: • the purpose of taking a health history at preoperative assessment • various methods of obtaining a health history…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> Question bank Dr Claire M. Blandford, Dr Cathryn Matthews, Dr Theresa Hinde, and Dr Thomas Bradley Passing the Primary FRCA SOE: A Practical Guide, ed. Claire…
CHAPTER 9 DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING IN ACUTE CARE SURGERY BEHROZE A. VACHHA, LEO L. TSAI, KAREN S. LEE, AND MARC A. CAMACHO The management of acute care surgical patients, as that…
CHAPTER 35 INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT MATTHEW SCHUCHERT, VAISHALI SCHUCHERT, AND BRIAN ZUCKERBRAUN INFLAMMATORY EMERGENCIES OF THE ESOPHAGUS Acute, inflammatory conditions of the esophagus requiring urgent treatment are…
CHAPTER 10 HEMATOLOGIC ABNORMALITIES, COAGULOPATHY, AND TRANSFUSION THERAPY LENA M. NAPOLITANO HEMATOLOGIC ABNORMALITIES Red Blood Cell Disorders Anemia Anemia is common in critically ill and injured patients admitted to the intensive…
CHAPTER 43 SURGICAL INFECTIONS OF SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE VANESSA P. HO, SOUMITRA R. EACHEMPATI, AND PHILIP S. BARIE Infections of skin and soft tissue (SSTI) encompass a diverse set…
CHAPTER 29 GENITOURINARY TRAUMA BRADLEY A. ERICKSON AND JACK W. MCANINCH RENAL TRAUMA Epidemiology Trauma patients suffer renal injury at rates of 1.4%-3.25% with proportionally higher rates seen in younger…
