Like Vampires Drinking Holy Water – Part 2
How to make an accurate grading of caustic injuries and how to treat them properly... Here you can find all the answers you are looking for...
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...
The Spice That Makes Things Hot
Sometimes the open abdomen and appropriate resuscitation are not enough to make patients recover from their pathological state... In these rare but threatening events, direct peritoneal resuscitation comes handy to help and fasten patients' healing.
Pricking the Big Red Balloon
Intra-abdominal hypertension is a critical state that may lead to multiorgan failure and, eventually, to death. However, the diagnosis of this condition is often missed, and the intra-abdominal pressure is a parameter frequently forgotten...
When Dwarves’ Doctors are not Small Doctors
Children are not small adults... and this concept is true in many ways... Dealing with them cannot be done as in adults, and the surgical emergencies that may uprise are completely different from the ones general surgeons are used to... Here you can find a brief yet comprehensive guide on how to deal with a child with a suspected acute abdomen...