Surgical complications - part 1 ppsx

[...]... Nadey S Hakim & Vassilios E Papalois London, January 2007 Jan 23, 2007 10 :8 SPI-B404 Surgical Complications ch 01 Chapter 1 A HISTORY OF SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS Allan Chapman “Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed?” Jeremiah XV :18 Defining a surgical complication before the latter part of the 18 th century is not as straightforward a thing as it might appear at first... London W12 0HS, UK xi Jan 23, 2007 10 :9 SPI-B404 xii Surgical Complications fm Contributors Rajesh Aggarwal, MA, MRCS Specialist Registrar in Surgery Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology St Mary’s NHS Trust St Mary’s Hospital Praed Street, Paddington London W2 1NY, UK Nicholas Alexakis, MD Department of General Surgery, Medical School University of Athens Hippocration Hospital V Sofias 11 4 Athens... remarkable essay on descriptive anatomy But it is in Celsus’ De Medicina Book VII, which deals with surgical procedures, that we first encounter the range and ingenuity of Roman surgery The causes and treatment of abscesses and Jan 23, 2007 10 :8 SPI-B404 Surgical Complications ch 01 A History of Surgical Complications 11 fistulae, for example, are discussed with remarkable insight and accuracy of detail He tells... postoperative inflammation in any pre-late -1 9 th-century AD surgical environment, however, one wonders who would have been foolhardy enough to have trained as a surgeon in ancient Mesopotamia in the first place The Edwin Smith and Ebers Egyptian medical papyri from c 17 00 16 00 and 15 50 BC, respectively (though probably deriving from much earlier originals) display a familiarity with certain surgical procedures The... showed the presence of embalming materials inside the post-mortem injury, suggesting an open wound — and the Pharaoh die from a subsequent bacterial infection? Jan 23, 2007 10 :8 SPI-B404 Surgical Complications ch 01 A History of Surgical Complications 3 It was not uncommon amongst classical and later writers on surgery to associate certain types of complications with the incompetence of the operator, and... Jan 23, 2007 10 :8 SPI-B404 8 Surgical Complications ch 01 A Chapman and the patient would recover As the author of the Biblical book Proverbs (20:30) wisely summed up, “the blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil”, the colour-change indicating that the infected state is passing But this balance theory of health, and the heat-attracting concept of surgical infection, paid no more than lip-service to anatomy... chapters deal with generic complications in surgery and include contributions on anaesthetic complications, cardiopulmonary complications, surgical infection and surgical wound complications The majority of the remaining chapters are anatomically based ranging again from complications of breast surgery to complications of abdominal surgery In addition, there are contributions on the complications of gynaecological... College London Du Cane Road London W12 0HS, UK David Westaby, MD, FRCP Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist Department of Gastroenterology Hammersmith Hospital Imperial College London Du Cane Road London W12 0HS, UK Jan 23, 2007 10 :9 SPI-B404 Surgical Complications fm FOREWORD The editors have done an excellent job in compiling a series of contributions on complications after surgery The contributors...Jan 23, 2007 10 :9 SPI-B404 x Surgical Complications fm Contents Chapter 22 Complications of Microsurgery 727 Earl Owen Chapter 23 Complications of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 739 Ivo Pitanguy, Henrique N Radwanski and Natale Ferreira Gontijo De Amorim Chapter 24 Complications of Minimally Invasive Surgery 773 Rajesh Aggarwal, Shabnam Undre and Ara Darzi Chapter 25 Complications in Transplantation... well as transplant surgery Later chapters deal with complications following gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures xxi Jan 23, 2007 10 :9 SPI-B404 xxii Surgical Complications fm Foreword and interventional radiological procedure, while the two final chapters deal with psychiatric complications related to surgery and the medico-legal issues raised by complications occurring after surgery These two chapters . 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 019 23, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN -1 3 97 8 -1 -8 609 4-6 9 2-9 ISBN -1 0 1- 8 609 4-6 9 2-5 Typeset by Stallion Press Email:. by Imperial College Press SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS Diagnosis and Treatment JQuek - Surgical Complications. pmd 4 /17 /2007, 4:37 PM1 Jan. 23, 2007 10 :9 SPI-B404 Surgical Complications fm To my wife,. Gómez Chapter 4 Surgical Infections 11 3 Nazar A. Mustafa, Vasillios E. Papalois and Nadey S. Hakim Chapter 5 Surgical Wound Complications 13 9 Umraz Khan vii Jan. 23, 2007 10 :9 SPI-B404 Surgical Complications