Complications in Surgery

Contributors v
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
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INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
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Surgical Complications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Michael W. Mulholland and Gerard Doherty
2.
Outcomes and Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Learning from Unanticipated Linnea S. Hauge
3.
Surgical Training:: Present and Future . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Rebecca M. Minter and Paul G. Gauger
4.
Continuing Education for Practicing Surgeons . . . . 22 Richard E. Burney and R. Van Harrison
5.
Surgical Credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Mary E. Klingensmith
6.
Surgical Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Understanding Variation in Justin B. Dimick and John D. Birkmeyer
7.
Surgical Outcomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Strategies for Reducing Variation in John D. Birkmeyer and Justin B. Dimick
8.
Collaboratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Building Successful Quality Improvement Michael J. Englesbe
9.
Patient Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Darrell A. Campbell
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MANAGEMENT OF SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS
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Assessment of Perioperative Cardiac Risk . . . . . . . 67 Debabrata Mukherjee and Kim A. Eagle
11.
Perioperative Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Assessment of Noncardiac Pauline K. Park
12.
Anesthesia Complications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Paul E. Kazanjian
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Complications of Wound Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Michael G. Franz
14.
Surgical Site Infections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Gerard M. Doherty
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Septic Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Awori Hayanga and Stewart Wang
16.
Hypovolemic Shock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Wendy L. Wahl
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Fluid and Electrolyte Abnormalities . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Bradley D. Freeman
18.
Acute Renal Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Robert E. Southard and Craig M. Coopersmith
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Pulmonary Complications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Mark R. Hemmila
20.
Abnormalities in Coagulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Alvin H. Schmaier
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Complications of Nutritional Support . . . . . . . . . 210 Imad F. Btaiche, Eiichi Miyasaka, and Daniel H. Teitelbaum
22.
Complications of Immunosuppression . . . . . . . . . 227 Niraj M. Desai and Christina L. Klein
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COMPLICATIONS OF THORACIC SURGERY
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and Tracheal Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Complications of Intubation, Tracheotomy, Kevin Fung and Norman D. Hogikyan
24.
Complications of Esophageal Surgery . . . . . . . . . 257 Andrew C. Chang and Mark D. Iannettoni
25.
Chest Wall Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Complications of Pulmonary and Christina H. Wei and Jessica S. Donington
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Complications of Extracorporeal Circulation . . . . 290 Jennifer S. Lawton
27.
Revascularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Complications of Surgical Coronary Spencer J. Melby, Traves D. Crabtree, and Marc R. Moon
28.
Cardiac Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Complications in Valvular Gorav Ailawadi
29.
Complications of Thoracoscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 James M. Donahue, Michael A. Smith, and Richard J. Battafarano
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COMPLICATIONS OF VASCULAR SURGERY
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Complications of Arterial Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Gilbert R. Upchurch Jr., Jonathan L. Eliason, John E. Rectenwald,
and James C. Stanley
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and Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Complications of Venous Disease Thomas W. Wakefield and Peter K. Henke
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Complications of Endovascular Therapy . . . . . . . 367 Matthew J. Eagleton and Sunita D. Srivastava
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COMPLICATIONS OF GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY
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Complications of Gastric Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 Michael W. Mulholland
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Complications of Hepatic Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 Theodore H. Welling and James A. Knol
35.
Complications of Biliary Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Christopher J. Sonnenday
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Complications of Pancreatic Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . 450 Diane M. Simeone
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Small Bowel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Complications of Intestinal Surgery:: Arden M. Morris
38.
Colon and Rectal Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483
Complications of Appendectomy and Emily Finlayson
39.
Hernia Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Complications of Abdominal Wall and Michael G. Franz
40.
Complications of Laparoscopic Surgery . . . . . . . . 522 Jonathan F. Finks
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COMPLICATIONS OF ENDOCRINE AND
ONCOLOGIC SURGERY
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Complications of Adrenal Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 Paul G. Gauger
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Parathyroid Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
Complications of Thyroid and Gerard Doherty
43.
Pancreatic Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Complications in Endocrine Cortney Youens Lee and Terry C. Lairmore
44.
Complications in Breast Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 Alicia Growney, Ahmad Azari, and Lisa A. Newman
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Complications of Soft-Tissue Tumor Surgery . . . . 594 Sandra L. Wong
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Complications of Lymphadenectomy . . . . . . . . . . 602 Alliric I. Willis and Jeffrey F. Moley
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COMPLICATIONS OF TRANSPLANTATION
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Complications of Renal Transplantation . . . . . . . . 613 Randall Sung and Robert Merion
48.
Complications of Liver Transplantation . . . . . . . . 627 Shawn J. Pelletier
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Complications of Pancreatic Transplantation . . . . 640 Dixon B. Kaufman
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Transplantation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Complications of Pulmonary Sara A. Hennessy, Bryan F. Meyers, and Christine L. Lau
51.
Heart Transplantation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Complications Following Sanjeev Aggarwal and Francis D. Pagani
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COMPLICATIONS OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY
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Surgical Complications in Newborns . . . . . . . . . . 701 Samir Gadepalli and Ronald B. Hirschl
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Surgical Complications in Children . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 James D. Geiger
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