Overview
- Reports on pre-operative surgical risk in difficult clinical settings for patients on mechanical circulatory support
- Describes trends in mini-invasive surgical techniques and offers an overview of recent advances in surgical simulation
- Focuses on peculiar clinical situations requiring special treatments, such as REBOA and ECMO for trauma support
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Table of contents (83 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identification and Characterisation of High-Risk Surgical Patients
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Strategies to Improve the Outcome in High-Risk Surgical Patients
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Keywords
- Health Care Quality
- Acute Care Surgery
- Surgical Intensive Care
- Respiration, Artificial
- Multiple Trauma
- Treatment outcome
- Severity of illness, Index
- Patient Outcome Assessment
- Left Ventricular Assist Device, LVAD
- Extra-Corporeal Mechanical Ventilation, ECMO
- Operative Risk Stratification
- Operative Risk Management
- Post-operative Complications
- Patient Safety
- Non-operative management
- Post-operative surgical complications
About this book
It is well known that certain diseases and patient conditions are associated with increased perioperative risk. The aim of this book is to define and identify the clinical factors that warrant a broader and more detailed assessment of pre-operative surgical risk in difficult and unusual clinical settings. One of the sections is dedicated to the main pathway of peri- and post-surgical critical care based on the patient-specific deterioration risk and associated diseases; here, a panel of selected experts describes the correct patient-oriented pathways for complex or unscheduled surgical operations in order to reduce the operative risk. In addition, the book describes the latest trends in minimally invasive surgical techniques that are associated with peri- and post-operative risk reduction, and provides an overview of recent advances in surgical simulation, focusing on perspectives in surgical research to increase patient safety.
Guidance is also provided on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs), and their management in patients requiring emergency surgery.
The book will help surgical trainees recognize cases with the highest surgical risk and identify the most common complications at an early stage.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paolo Aseni works at the Department of Emergency at the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, Italy. He worked in the General Surgical Department and Abdominal Transplant Center of the same Hospital, where he was mainly involved in abdominal organ transplantation, abdominal surgery and emergency surgery. At the same hospital, he is currently responsible for basic surgical training for the emergency medical team. At the University of Medicine of Milan, he holds the position of Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Human Macroscopic Morphology.
Antonino M. Grande is an attending surgeon in Cardiac Surgery – Heart and Lung Transplant Department at the IRCCS Fondazione Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia. His clinical interests include heart failure, heart/lung transplants and mechanical circulatory support. He did a Fellowship in Cardiovascular Surgery at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas, U.S.A., and he was an Assistant Professor of Surgical Anatomy at the University of Pavia, Italy.
Ari Leppaniemi is the Chief of Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the Helsinki University Hospital Meilahti, Finland. His research interests include abdominal trauma, peritonitis, pancreatitis, abdominal compartment syndrome, open abdomen, and complex reoperative and abdominal wall surgery. He is an honorary fellow of the ACS, President of the Finnish Society of Surgery and President of the European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery.
Osvaldo Chiara has been an American College of Surgeons ATLS instructor and Director of American College of Surgeons ATOM courses in Europe. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Shock Trauma Center, State University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. His research interests include shock, trauma surgery, open abdomen, and non-operative management in trauma. He is Director of the Trauma Team and Scientific Coordinator of the Trauma Center at the Niguarda General Hospital in Milan, and a Full Professorof Emergency and Trauma Surgery at the State University of Milan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The High-risk Surgical Patient
Editors: Paolo Aseni, Antonino Massimiliano Grande, Ari Leppäniemi, Osvaldo Chiara
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17273-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17272-4Published: 08 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17275-5Published: 08 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17273-1Published: 07 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 471
Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations, 362 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, Public Health