The Future of Emergency Surgery

The future of surgery.

S INCE Lister enunciated the principles of antiseptic Surger~ whi~h developed into Aseptic Surgery, so much has been accomplished m Surgical progress that to write it as a prophesy in the year 1890, let us say, would call forth condemnation of its author as a foolish romancer. Th,e memory of what has happened since my graduation from McGill gives me courage to draw upon my imagination for the f...

Emergency Surgery of the Hand

W. M. McQuillan. (Pp. 74; figs. 38. 10s 6d). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1967. THE speciality of hand surgery owes a lot to Bunnell whose pupil was Prof. Erik Moberg of of Goteborg, the author. This small monograph was originally written in Swedish, it was rewritten in German and this is a translation from the German by the senior lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery in Edinburgh Univ...

Emergency Surgery

Emergency Surgery

Organization of emergency surgery.

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...