Bookedited by Hunter Wessells, MD, FACS, Shigeo Horie, MD, PhD, Reynaldo G. Gómez, MD, FACS.
Summary: "Urological Emergencies is an up-to-date, clinical guide offering the best practices in diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with urgent urological conditions. Designed to offer practical guidance at all times, it will provide doctors with an extremely useful tool to consult in the clinical setting. To achieve this, each chapter will feature the following pedagogic features: * Summary overviews * Key practice/learning points * Potential pitfalls/"do's and don'ts" boxes * Diagnostic decision trees * Management algorithms * Summary conclusions * Case studies * MCQs to support active learning Edited by an outstanding international editor team who will recruit a diverse cross-section of the world's leading experts as authors, the book will be aimed at specialist and trainee urologists managing patients in the diverse healthcare settings across the globe. The coverage will be comprehensive for a host of acute urological conditions ranging from traumatic, infectious, and obstructive to haemorrhagic, vascular, and congenital urological emergencies. It will also be a useful resource for emergency medicine practitioners. Emphasis throughout will be on providing the best Clinical management of patients possible; therefore the main focus is on the clinical aspects most relevant to practicing urologists"-- Provided by publisher
Contents:
Blunt Renal Injuries / Lindsay Hampson and Nnenaya Mmonu
Penetrating Renal Trauma
A Civilian and Military Perspective / Jonathan Wingate
Renal Infections / Brusabhanu Nayak, Nitin Srivastava, and Rajeev Kumar
Acute Kidney Stone Management / Justin S. Ahn and Jonathan D. Harper
Traumatic Adrenal Hemorrhage / Hong Truong and Bradley D. Figler
External Ureteral Trauma / Humberto G. Villarreal and Steven J. Hudak
Iatrogenic Ureteral injury / Haruaki Kato, Kazuyoshi Iijima, Tomohiko Oguchi, Seiji Yano
Bladder Injuries / Yosuke Nakajima
Traumatic Urethral Injuries / Laura G. Velarde and Reynaldo G. Gómez
Acute management of urethral stricture / Akio Horiguchi
Prostatitis and Prostatic Abscess / Hunter Wessells
Fournier's Gangrene / Kosuke Kitamura and Shigeo Horie
Traumatic Penile Injuries / Ariel Fredrick and Alex J. Vann
Priapism / Akash A. Kapadia, Kevin Ostrowski and Thomas J. Walsh
Traumatic Scrotal and Testicular Injuries / Marios Hadjipavlou and Davendra Sharm
Testicular Torsion / Alexander J. Skokan and Dana A. Weiss
Epididymitis and Orchitis / Norman Zambrano
Urologic Neonatal Emergencies / Nicolas Fernandez and Nayib Fakih.