EMERGENCY CONDITIONS IN SURGERY

Global disease burden of conditions requiring emergency surgery.

BACKGROUND Surgical disease is inadequately addressed globally, and emergency conditions requiring surgery contribute substantially to the global disease burden. METHODS This was a review of studies that contributed to define the population-based health burden of emergency surgical conditions (excluding trauma and obstetrics) and the status of available capacity to address this burden. Furthe...

Surgery in an Emergency

A series of major surgical operations were performed by the writer with the most gratifying results. Experience revealed that life saving surgical procedures could be performed almost anywhere and with the bare minimum of surgical equipment. These operations formed the first series of major operations performed in a Persian hospital which had been functioning for six years. No surgical equipmen...

Emergency Surgery

Emergency Surgery

Emergency surgery in ulcerative colitis.

Ulcerative colitis in its milder manifestations may be managed by conservative methods. If these are unsuccessful, or, in the presence of more severe disease, a planned surgical procedure, either subtotal colectomy or proctocolectomy, is the alternative method of treatment. On occasion, however, the rapidity of progression of the disease forces the issue: conservative measures, if any have been...