Emergency surgery deals with acutely life-threatening conditions caused by external trauma, acute disease processes or surgical complications. Irrespective of aetiology, these patients need urgent decision-making often followed by surgical, radiological or endoscopic interventions. The degree of physiological derangement determines the type and urgency of intervention, and delays of hours or ev...

The rate of elective surgery for peptic ulcer disease has been declining steadily over the past 3 decades. During this same period, the rate of emergency ulcer surgery rose by 44%. This means that the gastrointestinal surgeon is likely to be called on to manage the emergent complications of peptic ulcer disease without substantial experience in elective peptic ulcer disease surgery. The goal of...

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in elderly patients was increasing in recent years. Between January 1989, and December 1996, 11 patients aged 80 years or older (mean 81) underwent CABG in our hospital. Nine patients (82%) were in New York Heart Association class III or IV. Emergency surgery was required in 4 patients (36%). Incidence of emergency surgery is higher than younger patients (...

1 “Carol Davila”University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 2 Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstruction Microsurgery, Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 3 Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 4 Department of General Surgery, Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania Corresponding author: Tiberiu P...

This topic has been discussed on various occasions in the last 50 years and was first subject of European Consensus Conference (Modena, March 1999) organized by SICM (Italian Society Hand Surgery), SIM Microsurgery) FESUM (European Federation Emergency Services) 1, with patronage FESSH Surgery Societies) subsequently State Regions Italy (Gazzetta Ufficiale No. 285 07/12/2001) who formalized req...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that inadequate lymph node harvest may result in pathologically understaged or indeterminate staging of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). We compared the adequacy of nodal staging in patients undergoing emergency surgery compared with elective surgery for CRC. METHODS Using a prospectively collected CRC surgery database at a tertiary care centre, we perfo...

Background In 2007, before founding the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), we developed a questionnaire to investigate how emergency surgery was organized and implemented as a practice throughout the world. We discovered two fundamental models, which were sometimes present simultaneously in the same country [1]. One model was characterized by hospitals with designated emergency surgery ...

The number of trauma victims in Turkey is expected to increase as a consequence of the increasing vehicular traffic, potential for earthquakes, and risk of terrorist attacks. The Turkish Association for Trauma and Emergency Surgery monitors trauma cases, publishes a quarterly journal, organizes trauma courses and seminars for various health personnel nationwide. It is also extending efforts to ...

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...