Mini-invasive Approach in Acute Care Surgery, 1st ed. 2023 Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma Series

The minimally invasive approach in emergency and general trauma surgery is a key aspect of both scenarios. This book, the first comprehensive manual in the field, takes a global view of the subject and deals with it in depth, ranging from the historical perspective to the pathophysiological and therapeutic aspects in the various body compartments.

Thanks to its user-friendly approach, this book will be a useful tool in the daily clinical practice of surgeons, doctors, anesthetists and nurses; thanks to its up-to-date review of the literature, it will remain relevant for several years. Finally, the participation of world opinion leaders in the field guarantees the comprehensive and scientific soundness of the work.

​1. The history of minimally invasive techniques in acute care surgery.- 2. History of thoracoscopy in emergency surgery and trauma.- 3. Role and limitations of mininvasive approach in abdominal emergencies and trauma.- 4. Role of MIS approaches in thoracic emergencies and trauma.- 5. Acute appendicitis.- 6. Acute cholecystitis and emergency common bile duct exploration.- 7. Acute colonic diverticulitis.- 8. Complicated inflammatory bowel disease and colonic non diverticular emergencies.- 9. Gastroduodenal perforation.- 10. Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction (ASBO).- 11. Large bowel obstruction.- 12. Minimally Invasive Approach to Treatment of Acute Pancreatitis.- 13. Complicated hiatal hernia.- 14. Inguinal and incisional hernia emergency management.- 15. Internal and congenital hernias.- 16. Post-traumatic diaphragmatic hernia.- 17. Minimally Invasive Approach to Intestinal Bleeding.- 18. Bowelischemia.- 19. General Surgery Emergencies In Pregnancy.- 20. Non-specific abdominal pain.- .- 21. Management of bariatric surgery early and delayed complications.- 22. Gynaecological Emergencies.- 23. Role of emergency laparoscopic surgery in pediatric patients.- 24. Minimally Invasive Surgery for Emergency General Surgery in Elderly.- 25. Role of emergency laparoscopy in surgical and endoscopic complications.- 26. Role of bedside laparoscopy.- 27. Anesthesia Considerations for MIS in Emergency and Trauma Surgery.- 28. Utility of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) in Acute Care Surgery.

Federico Coccolini is a consultant general, emergency and trauma surgeon working at the Pisa University Cisanello Hospital  , one of the biggest level-I trauma centres in Italy, and  teaches Emergency and Trauma Surgery at the University of Pisa. He has a deep and documented experience in managing post-traumatic and non post-traumatic surgical patients. His principal interests are: emergency surgery, trauma surgery, advanced oncology, oncologic gastrointestinal surgery, laparoscopic and minimally invasive surgery, tissue engineering and experimental surgery, evidence based medicine and evidence based surgery. He actually is the principal investigator of several multicenter studies and registers.

Mauro Podda is a Consultant General and Emergency Surgeon and Clinical Lecture in Surgery at the Department of Emergency Surgery of Cagliari University Hospital “Policlinico Universitario Duilio Casula”. His particular research fields are minimally invasive gastric, pancreatic, colorectal, and general emergency surgery. He is member of the editorial board of several scientific journals and reviewer for the British Journal of Surgery, the British Medical Journal, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, Annals of Internal Medicine, World Journal of Surgery and World Journal of Emergency Surgery.