Newton and the Palm Tree: The Awful Coconut Law
Traumatic brain injuries are one of the most frequent results in blunt trauma... The knowledge of how to correctly manage patients with mild TBI is mandatory to avoid wasting resources without underestimating the severity of the injury...
Hacking You… Tube – Part 2
In the unfortunate event of a bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (and not only), you need to know what to do... and that should be not too much, and not too less...
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...
Escaping Oceanic Flight 815
Sometimes, during a cholecystectomy performed for acute cholecystitis, you may find yourself stuck in a difficult situation... Adhesions and fibrosis may prevent a safe dissection, and obtaining an adequate Critical View of Safety is quite impossible. In these cases, the bail-out procedures might be useful to avoid intra- and postoperative complications...
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.
