Like Vampires Drinking Holy Water – Part 1
One of the most fearsome and unpredictable events we may face as surgeons in the Emergency Room... Patients coming in after caustic ingestion enclose a vast spectrum of injuries: from none to complete necrosis of the upper gastrointestinal tract... Making a correct diagnosis and defining a precise grading is essential to plan the best following management...
In#!@$*ception
Intussusception is a rare cause of bowel obstruction in adults. Here you can find more about it... Pathogenesis, diagnosis and management...
The Strange Story of Salmons Swimming Upstream
Acute cholangitis is not really a surgical disease. However, it is better to know how to correctly identify and manage it, since it may precipitate the patient's condition, rapidly leading to multiorgan failure and death...
The Awakening of the Sleeping Lion – Part 1
Acute pancreatitis has many causes and it may present in many forms... Sometimes a little bit of monitoring is enough, other times things get more messy... Learn how to make diagnosis and how to predict severity...
Stupeficium
Shock is a state of cardiocirculatory insufficiency that may be the consequence of many conditions... Let's find out how to diagnose, correctly classify and treat shock according to its causing factor...
