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This book is aimed at surgeons faced with the immediate management of acute surgical problems in a variety of resource settings. The topics covered are common in both developed and developing countries as well as in tropical and non-tropical settings. The book offers an introduction to trauma, which includes primary, secondary and tertiary surveys, trauma resuscitation, and multidisciplinary care followed by a short section on acute burns management and a discussion of a range of specific surgical topics including various of acute abdomen, upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding, perianal conditions, oncological issues that require acute intervention, abdominal wall problems, urological emergencies and neck swellings. It also addresses the rational use of antibiotics and medications and the role of high dependency units. Each chapter includes a flow chart algorithm with multiple endpoints that relate to the resource situations available to the surgeon. The book is of interest to clinicians dealing with changes in acute surgery and the increasing disparity between developed and developing countries.

Surgical emergencies. --- Traumatology. --- Accident medicine --- Trauma medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Surgery --- Wounds and injuries --- Critical care surgery --- Emergency surgery --- Medical emergencies --- Medicina d'urgència --- Traumatologia --- Països en vies de desenvolupament --- Cirurgia --- Cirurgia ortopèdica --- Ferides i lesions --- Cirurgia d'urgència --- Medicina --- Infermeria d'urgència --- Medicina d'urgència en entorns naturals --- Reanimació --- Urgències quirúrgiques --- Medicina de catàstrofes --- Medicina intensiva --- Serveis d'urgències mèdiques --- Unitats de cures intensives --- Urgències mèdiques --- Àrees subdesenvolupades --- Països subdesenvolupats --- Quart món --- Subdesenvolupament econòmic --- Regions subdesenvolupades --- Tercer món --- Zones subdesenvolupades --- Agrupacions de països --- Països nous --- Països emergents --- Surgery. --- Blood-vessels --- Critical care medicine. --- Emergency medicine. --- Tropical medicine. --- General Surgery. --- Vascular Surgery. --- Intensive Care Medicine. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Tropical Medicine. --- Anestèsia en traumatologia --- Diseases, Tropical --- Hygiene, Tropical --- Medicine --- Public health, Tropical --- Sanitation, Tropical --- Tropical diseases --- Medical climatology --- Medicine, Emergency --- Critical care medicine --- Disaster medicine --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Intensive care units --- Vascular surgery --- Surgery, Primitive

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Medical microbiology, virology, parasitology --- Pathology of the circulatory system --- Orthopaedics. Traumatology. Plastic surgery --- Surgery --- Human medicine --- pathologie --- spoedgevallen --- intensieve zorgen --- chirurgie --- cardiovasculaire chirurgie --- tropische ziekten --- intensieve-zorgen afdeling