Part I: Preoperative evaluation and management.- 1. Surgical risk in distressed or underserved populations.- 2. Implementation and utilization of checklists in surgical patient safety.- 3. Controversies in antibiotic prophylaxis in orthopaedic surgery.- 4.
Perioperative Hemodynamic Monitoring for High Risk Surgical Patients.- Part II: Lifestyle interventions.- 5. Prehabilitation for gastrointestinal cancer surgery.- 6. Efficacy of prehabilitation in abdominal cancer surgery.- 7. Elective surgery for patients with substance use disorder or recent substance misuse.
- 8. Illicit drugs and candidates for endoscopy and surgery.- 9. Nutritional Care in Gastrointestinal Surgery.- Part III: Surgical specialties.- 10. Risk Reduction in Diabetic Patients Undergoing Orthopaedic Surgery.- 11.
Advanced Trauma Life Support.- 12. Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Review for the General and Trauma Surgeon.- 13. Current Management of Post Operative Mesenteric Ischemia.- 14. Safety and Success in Modern Liver Transplantation.- Part IV: Protocols of special relevance.
- 15. Immunization Routines for Surgical Splenectomy.- 16. Management of the Difficulty Airway in the Perioperative Period (A Surgical Perspective).- Part V: Fluids, electrolytes and shock.- 17. Damage Control Resuscitation: Massive Transfusion Protocols and Pharmacologic Adjuncts.- 18.
Perioperative Fluid Management and Volume Assessment.- 19. Perioperative fluid administration and complications in emergency gastrointestinal surgery.- 20. The surgical critically ill patients: a focus on deresuscitation strategy.- 21. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.- Part VI: Perioperative surgical challenges.
- 22. Damage Control Laparotomy.- 23. Abdominal compartment syndrome and emergency decompressive laparotomy.- 24. Postoperative complications after emergency laparotomy.- 25. Open abdomen as an effective therapy for abdominal sepsis, bedside assistance for the surgeon.
- 26. Acute mesenteric ischemia: Imaging and Intervention.- 27. Options on Conservative Treatment in Acute Surgical Emergencies.- Part VIII: Bedside and adjunct procedures.- 28. Percutaneous Ultrasound Guided Gastrostomy Placement.- 29.
Optimal pharmacotherapy strategies for enhanced postoperative recovery in high risk surgeries.- 30. Blood Component Alternatives During Acute Hemorrhage.- Part IX: Wound care.- 31. Skin Wound Complications in High-Risk Surgery.- 32. Can negative pressure dressings prevent wound infection after surgery?.
- Part X: Innovative Approaches.- 33. Practical implementation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the critically ill surgical patient.- 34. Improving the Selection of Patients for High-Risk Surgery: The Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence.- 35. Artificial Intelligence Surgery: How Autonomous Actions and Surgiomics Can Decrease Risk in High-Risk Surgery.- 36.
Machine Learning and High-Risk Cardiac Surgery Risk Scoring.- 37. Multidimensional Frailty Instruments for Cardiac Surgery.- Part XI: End of life care and other ethical challenges.- 38. Palliative Surgery: When to and When not to?.- 39. How should surgical palliative success be defined?.
- Part XII: Supplementary material.- 40. Colorectal surgery in critically unwell patients.- 41. Useful tables and internet sites.