Emergency Surgery -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part 1 Approach -- 1 The Initial Approach to the Emergency Surgery Patient -- 2 Preoperative Considerations -- 3 Emergency Anaesthesia -- 4 Analgesia -- Part 2 Abdomen -- 5 Acute Appendicitis -- 6 Colonic Diverticulosis -- 7 Biliary Colic and Acute Cholecystitis -- 8 Perforated Peptic Ulcer -- 9 Fulminant Colitis -- 10 Mesenteric Ischaemia -- 11 Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage -- 12 Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- 13 Acute Pancreatitis -- 14 Small Bowel Obstruction -- 15 Surgical Jaundice and Cholangitis -- 16 Large Bowel Obstruction -- 17 Emergency Surgical Management of Herniae -- Part 3 Vascular -- 18 Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm -- 19 Acute Limb Ischaemia -- Part 4 Soft Tissue Infection -- 20 Superficial Sepsis, Cutaneous Abscess and Necrotising Fasciitis -- Part 5 Urology -- 21 Emergency Urology -- Part 6 Trauma -- 22 Abdominal Trauma: Evaluation and Decision Making -- 23 Thoracic Trauma: Evaluation and Decision Making -- 24 Vascular Trauma -- 25 Damage Control Surgery -- 26 Trauma Laparotomy -- 27 Operative Management of Thoracic Trauma -- 28 Abdominal Trauma: Operative and Non-Operative Management -- Part 7 Critical Care -- 29 Critical Care -- 30 Postoperative Complications -- Index.