Carlos V. R. Brown • Kenji Inaba
Matthew J. Martin • Ali Salim
Editors

2019

The field of emergency general surgery encompasses a wide array of surgical diseases, ranging from the simple to the complex. Emergency general surgeons are tasked with caring for patients with emergent surgical diseases emanating from the emergency department or inpatient consultations. These diseases range from inflammatory, infectious, and hemorrhagic diseases spanning the entire gastrointestinal tract, complications of abdominal wall hernias, compartment syndromes, skin and soft tissue infections, and surgical diseases significantly complicated in special populations including elderly, obese, pregnant, immunocompromised, and cirrhotic patients.