Vascular surgical emergencies

Neonatal surgical emergencies.

Improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital disorders have resulted in a change in surgical practice. Many conditions that formerly required corrective surgery immediately after birth are no longer surgical emergencies. Most babies with congenital anomalies that can be corrected by surgery are now stabilized and optimized before the procedure. This article focused on the more comm...

Surgical Emergencies in Children

Anesthetic Management of Vascular Emergencies

Despite the increasing number of elective abdominal aneurysmectomies, rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysms still occurs. In 1950, Estes ~ reported that when no surgical resection was performed, ruptured aneurysms accounted for 63.3% of the deaths occurring at 5 years from the time of diagnosis of the aneurysm. In another report, 2 in cases in which the aneurysm was not resected, 35% of all dea...

Abdominal surgical emergencies in the puerperium.

Since surgical emergencies in the puerperium are rare, surgeons and obstetricians amass little experience of them. There may be considerable delay in making a diagnosis, firstly, because the abdominal symptoms are thought to be related to the pregnancy, and, secondly, because the signs are rarely convincing in contrast to the symptoms. Any of the common surgical emergencies may occur in pregnan...

Current Management of Surgical Oncologic Emergencies

OBJECTIVES For some oncologic emergencies, surgical interventions are necessary for dissolution or temporary relieve. In the absence of guidelines, the most optimal method for decision making would be in a multidisciplinary cancer conference (MCC). In an acute setting, the opportunity for multidisciplinary discussion is often not available. In this study, the management and short term outcome o...