Advances in Surgery, 2024
- 1st Edition, Volume 58-1 - August 6, 2024
- Editor: John L. Cameron
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 3 0 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 3 0 9 - 2
Advances in Surgery reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide surgeons with the current clinical information they need to impr… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Surgery reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide surgeons with the current clinical information they need to improve patient outcomes. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. John L. Cameron, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews in surgery inform and enhance clinical practice by bringing concepts to a clinical level and exploring their everyday impact on patient care.
- Contains 23 articles on such topics as current thoughts on burn resuscitation; poverty and its impact on surgical techniques; antibiotic use in the surgical ICU; is ECMO as effective for COVID-19 patients as for non-COVID patients?; the role of surgery for stage 4 breast cancer; and more.
- Provides in-depth, clinical reviews in surgery, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information in the field under the leadership of an experienced editorial team. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Associate Editors
- Contributors
- Current Thoughts on Burn Resuscitation
- Key points
- Introduction
- General content
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Management of Complications in Crohn’s Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Poverty and Its Impact on Surgical Care
- Key points
- Introduction
- Defining poverty and its multifaceted nature
- Access to healthcare services
- Surgical outcomes and poverty
- Strategies for improving surgical outcomes
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Is Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy Appropriate for Colon Cancer?
- Key points
- Clinical background
- Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy technique
- Morbidity associated with cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy
- Current status of cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in colorectal cancer peritoneal metastasis
- Therapeutic contribution of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy to cytoreductive surgery in colorectal cancer
- Mitomycin C versus oxaliplatin
- Systemic chemotherapy and cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy
- Prophylactic hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in high-risk patients
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Prevention and Treatment of Lymphedema in Breast Cancer
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology
- Definition
- Assessment/surveillance
- Predictive model
- Risk factors
- Axillary surgery
- Nodal radiation
- Surgical risk reduction
- No axillary surgery
- Clinically node negative
- Pathologically node positive (cN0)
- Clinically node positive and pathologically node positive
- Surgical prevention technique
- Lymphatic microsurgical preventive healing approach (LyMPHA)
- Selective axillary dissection
- Adjuvant therapy prevention technique
- Lymphedema treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Are Antibiotics of Value for a Whipple Procedure?
- Key points
- Common organisms causing infection
- Choice of prophylactic perioperative antibiotic
- Role of intraoperative bile cultures and postoperative antibiotics
- What is next?
- Clinics care points
- Current Management of Diverticulitis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Diagnosis and classification
- Uncomplicated diverticulitis
- Complicated diverticulitis
- Interventions after an episode of diverticulitis
- Emergency surgery for diverticulitis
- Elective surgery for diverticulitis
- Immunosuppression
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Repair of Parastomal Hernias
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology
- Diagnosis and classification
- Surgical management
- Prevention
- Outcomes
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Surgery or Endovascular Therapy for Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia
- Key points
- Introduction
- Workup
- Surgical therapy, endovascular therapy, and outcomes
- Current research
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- The Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Pancreatic Cancer
- Key points
- Circulating tumor cells and liquid biopsy
- Circulating tumor cells in pancreatic cancer
- Clinical application of circulating tumor cells as a biomarker
- Future directions and limitations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Surgical Management of the Horrible Gallbladder
- Key points
- Introduction
- Complicated cholelithiasis, evaluation, and workup
- Surgical access and critical view of safety
- Bile duct injury
- Intraoperative adjuncts and decision-making including cholangiography and ultrasonography
- Transcystic and direct common bile duct exploration
- Bailout maneuvers
- Clinics care points
- What Is the Best Technique for Treating Carotid Disease?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Indications for carotid artery revascularization
- Symptomatic patients
- Asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis
- Technical operative decisions in carotid endarterectomy
- Development and technique of transfemoral carotid artery stenting
- Limitations of transfemoral carotid artery stenting
- Development of transcarotid artery revascularization
- Operative technique
- Real world outcomes for transcarotid artery revascularization
- Anatomic limitations of transcarotid artery revascularization
- Timing of carotid revascularization in symptomatic patients
- Decision-making
- Patient demographics and medical comorbidities
- Anatomic considerations
- Transcarotid artery revascularization and standard risk patients based on medicare & medicaid services criteria
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclaimer Statement
- Is the Supraclavicular Approach Effective in Treating Patients with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Operative technique: suprclavicular thoracic outlet decompression
- Outcomes following supraclavicular thoracic outlet decompression
- Alternative operative approaches to thoracic outlet decompression
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Antibiotic Use in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
- Prophylaxis
- Empiric Therapy
- De-escalation
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Source Control
- Special Patient Populations
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- The Role of Surgery for Stage IV Melanoma
- Key points
- Introduction
- Role of surgery before effective systemic therapies
- Key points
- Role of surgery in the modern era
- Key points
- Additional indications for surgical resection in metastatic disease
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Stem Cell Therapy for Wound Healing in Ischemic Limbs: Is It Effective?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Sources of stem cells
- Stem cell delivery methods
- Published experience
- Future options: the role of endogenous stem cells
- Currently available stem cell therapy
- Clinics care points
- Use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infection
- Key points
- Introduction
- Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Historic and current use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Severe coronavirus disease 2019-related disease
- Early coronavirus disease 2019 extracorporeal membrane oxygenation experience
- Evolving coronavirus disease 2019 extracorporeal membrane oxygenation experience
- Effectiveness of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019
- Clinical management
- Complications
- Disparities
- Prognostication
- Lung transplantation
- Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Pregnancy and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Pediatric patients and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Resource and health care system considerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Young-Onset Rectal Cancer: Is It for Real?
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- What are the explanations for the increase in early-onset rectal cancer?
- Clinical and pathologic features
- Treatment
- Additional care considerations in early-onset colorectal cancer
- Clinics care points
- The Role of Surgery for Stage IV Breast Cancer
- Key points
- Background
- Impact of tumor subtypes on metastatic disease
- Management of de novo metastatic breast cancer
- Management of secondary metastasis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Current Status of Laparoscopic Liver Resection
- Key points
- Introduction
- History
- Difficulty scoring systems and learning curves
- Indications and patient selection
- Technical aspects
- Outcomes
- Challenges and technical limitations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 58-1
- Published: August 6, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443293085
- eBook ISBN: 9780443293092
JC
John L. Cameron
John L. Cameron is The Alfred Blalock Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
The Alfred Blalock Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA