Section I: General Principles
1. The Careful Art of Resuscitation
Diane A. Schwartz and John B. Holcomb
2. The Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen
Ashley Hardy, Bennet Butler, and Marie Crandall
3. Perioperative Considerations for Surgical Emergencies
Jacquelyn K. O'Herrin
4. Damage Control Laparotomy in Surgical Sepsis
Frederick A. Moore and Laura J. Moore
5. Surgical Procedures in the Intensive Care Unit
Linda A. Dultz, Vasiliy Sim, S. Rob Todd
6. Early Management of Sepsis, Severe Sepsis, and Septic Shock in the Surgical Patient
Laura Kreiner and Laura J. Moore
7. Multiple Organ Failure
Stephanie Gordy
8. Acute Lung Injury in the Acute Care Surgery Patient
Brittany Busse and Christine S. Cocanour
9. Nutrition in the Surgical Patient
Rosemary Kozar and Diane A. Schwartz
10. Acute Renal Insufficiency (Failure)
Chang-I Wu, Vasiliy Sim, and S. Rob Todd
11. Surgical Site Infections
Vanessa P. Ho, Soumitra R. Eachempati, and Philip S. Barie
12. Hemorrhage and Transfusions in the Surgical Patient
Agathe Streiff and Bryan A. Cotton
Section II: Common Diseases in Acute Care Surgery
13. Obtaining a Surgical Airway
Tanner Baker, Spencer Skelton, and Krista Turner
14. Esophageal Perforation
James Wiseman and Shanda H. Blackmon
15. Hemothorax, Pneumothorax, and Empyema
Heena P. Santry and Bruce J. Simon
16. Incarcerated Paraesophageal Hernia
Paul J. Schenarts, Mandy R. Maness, and John R. Pender IV
17. Peptic Ulcer Disease for the Acute Care Surgeon
Sherry Sixta
18. Gastric Outlet Obstruction
Randeep S. Jawa and David W. Mercer
19. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Lynn Gries and Peter Rhee
20. Acute Biliary Disease
Harry M. Richter III and Thomas M. Komar
21. Bile Duct Injury
Adnan Alseidi, Abigail Wiebusch, Ryan K. Smith, and W. Scott Helton
22. Liver Abscesses
Edie Chan and Marc Mesleh
23. Acute Pancreatitis
Steven M. Cohen and Andrew H. Nguyen
24. Small Bowel Obstruction
Alicia J. Mangram, Alexzandra Hollingworth, and James K. Dzandu
25. Acute Appendicitis
Krista L. Turner
26. Diverticulitis
Michael S. Truitt and Anand Lodha
27. Acute Mesenteric Ischemia
Laura E. White and Heitham T. Hassoun
28. Acute Colonic Obstruction
Quan P. Ly and James A. Edney
29. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Tricia Hauschild and Daniel Vargo
30. Sigmoid and Cecal Volvulus
Nicole Fox
31. Anorectal Emergencies
Michelle L. Cowan and Marc Singer
32. Complications of Laparoendoscopic Surgery
Nicholas M. Brown, Michelle Shen, and Erik B. Wilson
33. Metabolic and Anatomic Complications Following Bariatric Surgery
Robert G. Martindale, Clifford W. Deveney, Sara Bubenik, and
Svetang Desai
34. Abdominal Wall Hernias
Joseph F. Sucher and Michael Klebuc
35. The Open Abdomen
John A. Harvin and Rondel P. Albarado
36. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Zsolt J. Balogh and Osamu Yoshino
37. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
Lillian S. Kao
38. Extremity Compartment Syndromes
Roman Kosir and Andrej Cretnik
SECTION III: Ethics, Legal, and Administrative Considerations
39. Palliative Care in the Acute Care Surgery Setting
Bridget N. Fahy
40. Common Ethical Problems in Acute Care Surgery
Jeffrey P. Spike
41. Advanced Directives
Gary T. Marshall
42. Review of EMTALA laws
James J. McCarthy
