Surgery: Evidence-Based Practice -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreward -- Preface -- 1: Understanding the Elements that Comprise Evidence-Based Medicine -- 2: Patient Safety in Surgical Care -- 3. The Esophagus -- 4: Achalasia and Esophageal Spasms -- 5: Esophageal Diverticula -- 6: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease -- 7: Inguinal Hernias -- 8: Esophageal Caustic Injury -- 9: Esophageal Tumors -- 10: The Use of Esophageal Stents -- 11: Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Treatment of Esophageal Cancer -- 12: Esophageal Atresia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula -- 13: The Stomach -- 14: Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome -- 15: Evidence-Based Bariatric Surgery -- 16: Gastric Adenocarcinoma -- 17: Management of Upper GI Bleeding -- 18: Small Bowel -- 19: Crohn's Disease of the Small Bowel -- 20: Small Bowel Tumors and Diverticular Disease of SB -- 21: Enterocutaneous Fistula -- 22: Short Bowel Syndrome -- 23: Large Bowel -- 24: Crohn's Colitis and Ulcerative Colitis -- 25: Large Bowel Obstruction -- 26: Radiation Injury to the Small and Large Bowel -- 27: Ischemic Colitis -- 28: Pseudomembranous Colitis -- 29: Colon and Rectal Cancer Including Adjuvant -- 30: Tumors of the Anal Region -- 31: Inherited Colorectal Cancer Syndromes -- 32: Preoperative Bowel Preparation -- 33: Appendicitis -- 34: Hemorrhoids -- 35: Anorectal Fissure, Stricture, Abscess, and Fistula -- 36: Fecal Incontinence and Surgical Management of Constipation -- 37: Rectovaginal Fistula -- 38: Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- 39: The Liver -- 40: Hepatic Infections: Pyogenic Abscess, Amebic Abscess, and Hydatid Cyst -- 41: Malignant Liver Tumors -- 42: Portal Hypertension -- 43: Management of Intractable Ascites: The Evidence -- 44: Hepatic Encephalopathy -- 45: Elective Non-hepatic Surgery in Cirrhotic Patients -- 46: The Gallbladder and Bile Ducts -- 47: Acute Cholecystitis.

48: Common Bile Duct Stones -- 49: Benign Biliary Strictures -- 50: Gallstones Ileus -- 51: Bile Duct and Gallbladder Tumors -- 52: Obstructive Jaundice: Transhepatic and Endoscopic Interventions -- 53: The Pancreas -- 54: Infected Pancreatic Collections -- 55: Pancreatic Pseudocysts -- 56: Chronic Pancreatitis -- 57: Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma -- 58: Unusual Pancreatic Tumors -- 59: The Spleen -- 60: Tumors, Cysts, and Abscesses of the Spleen -- 61: Splenic Salvage -- 62: Postsplenectomy Sepsis -- 63: Hernia -- 64: Recurrent Inguinal Hernia -- 65: Epigastric and Umbilical Hernia -- 66: Incisional and Ventral Hernias -- 67: Endocrine Glands -- 68: Pheochromocytoma -- 69: Thyroid Nodules -- 70: Hyperthyroidisn, Thyroiditis, and Nontoxic Goiter -- 71: Hyperparathyroidism -- 72: The Breast -- 73: Breast Cancer: Surgical Therapy -- 74: Breast Cancer: Lymphatic Mapping and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy -- 75: Systemic Treatment Strategies for Early-Stage Breast Cancers -- 76: In Situ Carcinoma of the Breat: Ductal and Lobular Carcinoma -- 77: Male Breast Cancer -- 78: Breast Reconstruction Following Mastectomy -- 79: Chest Wall, Mediastinum -- 80: Primary Chest Wall Tumors -- 81: Tracheostomy: Timing and Techniques -- 82: Pneumothorax and Hemothorax -- 83: Vascular System -- 84: Aortic Dissection -- 85: Arterial Pseudoaneurysms and Arteriovenous Fistulae -- 86: Carotid Occlusive and Aneurysmal Disease -- 87: Aortoiliac Occlusive Disease -- 88: Femoropopliteal and Tibioperoneal Occlusive and Aneurysmal Disease -- 89: Thoracic Outlet Syndromes -- 90: Peripheral Arterial Embolus -- 91: Vascular Syndromes -- 92: Management of Graft Occlusion -- 93: Vascular Access for Hemodialysis -- 94: Atherosclerotic Renovascular Disease -- 95: Acute and Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia -- 96: The Diabetic Foot -- 97: Varicose Veins and Venous Insufficiency.

98: Deep Venous Thrombosis -- 99: Pulmonary Embolism -- 100: Management of Lymphedema -- 101: Skin and Soft Tissue -- 102: Soft Tissue Sarcoma -- 103: Solitary Neck Mass -- 104: Peripheral Nerve Injury Repair -- 105: Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections Including Gas Gangrene -- 106: Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections -- 107: Preoperative and Postoperative Care -- 108: Surgical Nutrition -- 109: Preoperative Risk Factor Assessment of the Surgical Patient -- 110: Perioperative Cardiac Monitoring -- 111: Bacteremia: An Evidence-Based Review of Reccommendations for Elective General Surgery -- 112: Prevention of Central Venous Catheter Infections -- 113: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) and Prophylactic Antibiotics -- 114: Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock -- 115: Abnormal Surgical and Postoperative Bleeding -- 116: management of Sedation and Delirium in the ICU -- 117: Postoperative Respiratory Failure -- 118: Postoperative Hepatic Failure -- 119: Acute Renal Dysfunction -- 120: Perioperative Endocrine Dysfunction -- Index.