Emergency abdominal surgery

Physiotherapy Following Emergency Abdominal Surgery

Physiotherapy following elective abdominal surgery has been well documented, but following emergency abdominal surgery, despite poorer outcomes and increased complication rates, physiotherapy interventions for this patient group remain largely uninvestigated. The most common complication following upper abdominal surgery is the development of a post-operative pulmonary complication (PPC). Risk ...

Role of Laparoscopy in Emergency Abdominal Surgery

Role of minimal access surgery is uncertain in emergency abdominal surgery. The objective of this review article is to explore the role of laparoscopy in various acute abdominal conditions requiring operative intervention.

Anesthetic Management of Neonatal Emergency Abdominal Surgery

Anesthetic management of neonatal surgical emergencies presents serious difficulties and challenges for the anesthesiologist and is associated with increased risks of morbidity and mortality. Therefore, in these patients, anesthetic assessment should be directed to the patient's current disease and associated anomalies. The provision of safe anesthesia and perioperative management of these case...

Schein’s common sense emergency abdominal surgery (4th edition)

Emergency abdominal surgery after solid organ transplantation: a systematic review

AIMS Due to the increasing number of solid organs transplantations, emergency abdominal surgery in transplanted patients is becoming a relevant challenge for the general surgeon. The aim of this systematic review of the literature is to analyze morbidity and mortality of emergency abdominal surgery performed in transplanted patients for graft-unrelated surgical problems. METHODS The literatur...