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 Feeling of Having a Pit in the Stomach
The management of patients with perforated peptic ulcers can be either easy peasy or very tricky, depending on multiple factors. The same can be said about the most appropriate surgical procedure to perform in these patients.