In Improved Outcomes in Colon and Rectal Surgery, Drs. Whitlow, Beck, Margolin, Hicks, and Timmcke have assembled a knowledgeable, expert, and distinguished group of contributors who additionally have flavored their contributions with their practical experience and “how I do it” approaches. This volume is the third in a series dealing with improving outcomes, avoiding complications, and in general improving the lot of patients who require surgery for conditions of the large bowel, rectum, and anus.
The stated objective of guiding less experienced surgeons in avoiding the pitfalls of both commonly encountered complications and those of rarer occurrence is well met in this volume. It should be in the library of all neophyte surgeons and deserves to be read even by experienced practitioners.
The field of colon and rectal surgery is a dynamic one with endoscopic and open surgery procedures at a mature stage. With constantly improving laparoscopic techniques, robotic surgery and other modalities only dreamed about in the past requiring every surgeon to continue to learn and improve this book fills a visible need.
Contents
1 Preexisting conditions
2 Preoperative bowel preparation
3 Anesthesia and intraoperative positioning
4 Sepsis
5 Intraoperative anastomotic challenges
6 Other intraoperative challenges
7 Postoperative anastomotic complications
8 General postoperative complications
9 Care paths and optimal postop management
10 Limitations of anorectal physiology testing
11 Limitations of colorectal imaging studies
12 Transanal endoscopy
13 Laparoscopic colorectal surgery
14 Medical legal issues
15 Miscellanous conditions
16 Quality and outcome measures
17 Hemorrhoidal surgery
18 Nonoperative therapy for hemorrhoid disease
19 Surgery and nonoperative therapy of perirectal abscesses and anal fistulas
20 Surgery and nonoperative therapy of anal fissure
21 Surgery for pilonidal disease and hidradenitis suppurativa
22 Surgical treatment of fecal incontinence
23 Surgery for rectal prolapse
24 Operative and nonoperative therapy for diverticular disease
25 Abdominal surgery for colorectal cancer
26 Transanal approaches to rectal cancer
27 Abdominoperineal resection
28 Indications and outcomes for treatment of recurrent rectal cancer and colorectal liver and lung metastasis
29 Chemotherapy for colon and rectal cancer
30 Radiation therapy: Acute and late toxicity
31 Surgery for ulcerative colitis
32 Surgery for Crohn’s disease
33 Ostomies
34 Operative and nonoperative therapy for chronic constipation
35 Colorectal trauma
36 Urologic complications of colorectal surgery
Index
The stated objective of guiding less experienced surgeons in avoiding the pitfalls of both commonly encountered complications and those of rarer occurrence is well met in this volume. It should be in the library of all neophyte surgeons and deserves to be read even by experienced practitioners.
The field of colon and rectal surgery is a dynamic one with endoscopic and open surgery procedures at a mature stage. With constantly improving laparoscopic techniques, robotic surgery and other modalities only dreamed about in the past requiring every surgeon to continue to learn and improve this book fills a visible need.
Contents
1 Preexisting conditions
2 Preoperative bowel preparation
3 Anesthesia and intraoperative positioning
4 Sepsis
5 Intraoperative anastomotic challenges
6 Other intraoperative challenges
7 Postoperative anastomotic complications
8 General postoperative complications
9 Care paths and optimal postop management
10 Limitations of anorectal physiology testing
11 Limitations of colorectal imaging studies
12 Transanal endoscopy
13 Laparoscopic colorectal surgery
14 Medical legal issues
15 Miscellanous conditions
16 Quality and outcome measures
17 Hemorrhoidal surgery
18 Nonoperative therapy for hemorrhoid disease
19 Surgery and nonoperative therapy of perirectal abscesses and anal fistulas
20 Surgery and nonoperative therapy of anal fissure
21 Surgery for pilonidal disease and hidradenitis suppurativa
22 Surgical treatment of fecal incontinence
23 Surgery for rectal prolapse
24 Operative and nonoperative therapy for diverticular disease
25 Abdominal surgery for colorectal cancer
26 Transanal approaches to rectal cancer
27 Abdominoperineal resection
28 Indications and outcomes for treatment of recurrent rectal cancer and colorectal liver and lung metastasis
29 Chemotherapy for colon and rectal cancer
30 Radiation therapy: Acute and late toxicity
31 Surgery for ulcerative colitis
32 Surgery for Crohn’s disease
33 Ostomies
34 Operative and nonoperative therapy for chronic constipation
35 Colorectal trauma
36 Urologic complications of colorectal surgery
Index
Product Details
- Hardcover: 420 pages
- Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (November 12, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1420071521
- ISBN-13: 978-1420071528
- Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.6 x 1 inches