- •Dedication
- •Editors and Contributors
- •Foreword
- •Preface
- •Contents
- •PREPARING FOR THE SURGERY CLERKSHIP
- •SURGICAL NOTES
- •COMMON ABBREVIATIONS YOU SHOULD KNOW
- •RETRACTORS (YOU WILL GET TO KNOW THEM WELL!)
- •SUTURE MATERIALS
- •WOUND CLOSURE
- •KNOTS AND EARS
- •INSTRUMENT TIE
- •TWO-HAND TIE
- •COMMON PROCEDURES
- •NASOGASTRIC TUBE (NGT) PROCEDURES
- •CHEST TUBES
- •NASOGASTRIC TUBES (NGT)
- •FOLEY CATHETER
- •CENTRAL LINES
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •THIRD SPACING
- •COMMON IV REPLACEMENT FLUIDS (ALL VALUES ARE PER LITER)
- •CALCULATION OF MAINTENANCE FLUIDS
- •ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCES
- •ANTIBIOTICS
- •STEROIDS
- •HEPARIN
- •WARFARIN (COUMADIN®)
- •MISCELLANEOUS AGENTS
- •NARCOTICS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •ATELECTASIS
- •POSTOPERATIVE RESPIRATORY FAILURE
- •PULMONARY EMBOLISM
- •ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA
- •GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLICATIONS
- •ENDOCRINE COMPLICATIONS
- •CARDIOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK
- •SEPTIC SHOCK
- •CARDIOGENIC SHOCK
- •NEUROGENIC SHOCK
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI)
- •CENTRAL LINE INFECTIONS
- •WOUND INFECTION (SURGICAL SITE INFECTION)
- •NECROTIZING FASCIITIS
- •CLOSTRIDIAL MYOSITIS
- •SUPPURATIVE HIDRADENITIS
- •PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS
- •PROPHYLACTIC ANTIBIOTICS
- •PAROTITIS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •CHEST
- •ABDOMEN
- •MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •OVERVIEW
- •CHOLECYSTOKININ (CCK)
- •SECRETIN
- •GASTRIN
- •SOMATOSTATIN
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •GROIN HERNIAS
- •HERNIA REVIEW QUESTIONS
- •ESOPHAGEAL HIATAL HERNIAS
- •PRIMARY SURVEY
- •SECONDARY SURVEY
- •TRAUMA STUDIES
- •PENETRATING NECK INJURIES
- •MISCELLANEOUS TRAUMA FACTS
- •PEPTIC ULCER DISEASE (PUD)
- •DUODENAL ULCERS
- •GASTRIC ULCERS
- •PERFORATED PEPTIC ULCER
- •TYPES OF SURGERIES
- •STRESS GASTRITIS
- •MALLORY-WEISS SYNDROME
- •ESOPHAGEAL VARICEAL BLEEDING
- •BOERHAAVE’S SYNDROME
- •ANATOMY
- •GASTRIC PHYSIOLOGY
- •GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE (GERD)
- •GASTRIC CANCER
- •GIST
- •MALTOMA
- •GASTRIC VOLVULUS
- •SMALL BOWEL
- •APPENDICITIS
- •CLASSIC INTRAOPERATIVE QUESTIONS
- •APPENDICEAL TUMORS
- •SPECIFIC TYPES OF FISTULAS
- •ANATOMY
- •COLORECTAL CARCINOMA
- •COLONIC AND RECTAL POLYPS
- •POLYPOSIS SYNDROMES
- •DIVERTICULAR DISEASE OF THE COLON
- •ANATOMY
- •ANAL CANCER
- •ANATOMY
- •TUMORS OF THE LIVER
- •ABSCESSES OF THE LIVER
- •HEMOBILIA
- •ANATOMY
- •PHYSIOLOGY
- •PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
- •DIAGNOSTIC STUDIES
- •BILIARY SURGERY
- •OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE
- •CHOLELITHIASIS
- •ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS
- •ACUTE ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS
- •CHOLANGITIS
- •SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS
- •GALLSTONE ILEUS
- •CARCINOMA OF THE GALLBLADDER
- •CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
- •MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS
- •PANCREATITIS
- •PANCREATIC ABSCESS
- •PANCREATIC NECROSIS
- •PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST
- •PANCREATIC CARCINOMA
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •ANATOMY OF THE BREAST AND AXILLA
- •BREAST CANCER
- •DCIS
- •LCIS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •MALE BREAST CANCER
- •BENIGN BREAST DISEASE
- •CYSTOSARCOMA PHYLLODES
- •FIBROADENOMA
- •FIBROCYSTIC DISEASE
- •MASTITIS
- •BREAST ABSCESS
- •MALE GYNECOMASTIA
- •ADRENAL GLAND
- •ADDISON’S DISEASE
- •INSULINOMA
- •GLUCAGONOMA
- •SOMATOSTATINOMA
- •ZOLLINGER-ELLISON SYNDROME (ZES)
- •MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA
- •THYROID DISEASE
- •ANATOMY
- •PHYSIOLOGY
- •HYPERPARATHYROIDISM (HPTH)
- •PARATHYROID CARCINOMA
- •SOFT TISSUE SARCOMAS
- •LYMPHOMA
- •SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
- •BASAL CELL CARCINOMA
- •MISCELLANEOUS SKIN LESIONS
- •STAGING
- •INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU) BASICS
- •INTENSIVE CARE UNIT FORMULAS AND TERMS YOU SHOULD KNOW
- •SICU DRUGS
- •INTENSIVE CARE PHYSIOLOGY
- •HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING
- •MECHANICAL VENTILATION
- •PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE
- •LOWER EXTREMITY AMPUTATIONS
- •ACUTE ARTERIAL OCCLUSION
- •ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS
- •MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA
- •MEDIAN ARCUATE LIGAMENT SYNDROME
- •CAROTID VASCULAR DISEASE
- •CLASSIC CEA INTRAOP QUESTIONS
- •SUBCLAVIAN STEAL SYNDROME
- •RENAL ARTERY STENOSIS
- •SPLENIC ARTERY ANEURYSM
- •POPLITEAL ARTERY ANEURYSM
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •PEDIATRIC IV FLUIDS AND NUTRITION
- •PEDIATRIC BLOOD VOLUMES
- •FETAL CIRCULATION
- •ECMO
- •NECK
- •ASPIRATED FOREIGN BODY (FB)
- •CHEST
- •PULMONARY SEQUESTRATION
- •ABDOMEN
- •INGUINAL HERNIA
- •UMBILICAL HERNIA
- •GERD
- •CONGENITAL PYLORIC STENOSIS
- •DUODENAL ATRESIA
- •MECONIUM ILEUS
- •MECONIUM PERITONITIS
- •MECONIUM PLUG SYNDROME
- •ANORECTAL MALFORMATIONS
- •HIRSCHSPRUNG’S DISEASE
- •MALROTATION AND MIDGUT VOLVULUS
- •OMPHALOCELE
- •GASTROSCHISIS
- •POWER REVIEW OF OMPHALOCELE AND GASTROSCHISIS
- •APPENDICITIS
- •INTUSSUSCEPTION
- •MECKEL’S DIVERTICULUM
- •NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS
- •BILIARY TRACT
- •TUMORS
- •PEDIATRIC TRAUMA
- •OTHER PEDIATRIC SURGERY QUESTIONS
- •POWER REVIEW
- •WOUND HEALING
- •SKIN GRAFTS
- •FLAPS
- •SENSORY SUPPLY TO THE HAND
- •CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
- •ANATOMY
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •NOSE AND PARANASAL SINUSES
- •ORAL CAVITY AND PHARYNX
- •FACIAL FRACTURES
- •ENT WARD QUESTIONS
- •RAPID-FIRE REVIEW OF MOST COMMON CAUSES OF ENT INFECTIONS
- •THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME (TOS)
- •CHEST WALL TUMORS
- •DISEASES OF THE PLEURA
- •DISEASES OF THE LUNGS
- •DISEASES OF THE MEDIASTINUM
- •DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS
- •ACQUIRED HEART DISEASE
- •CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
- •CARDIAC TUMORS
- •DISEASES OF THE GREAT VESSELS
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •BASIC IMMUNOLOGY
- •CELLS
- •IMMUNOSUPPRESSION
- •OVERVIEW OF IMMUNOSUPPRESSION MECHANISMS
- •MATCHING OF DONOR AND RECIPIENT
- •REJECTION
- •ORGAN PRESERVATION
- •KIDNEY TRANSPLANT
- •LIVER TRANSPLANT
- •PANCREAS TRANSPLANT
- •HEART TRANSPLANT
- •INTESTINAL TRANSPLANTATION
- •LUNG TRANSPLANT
- •TRANSPLANT COMPLICATIONS
- •ORTHOPAEDIC TERMS
- •TRAUMA GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- •FRACTURES
- •ORTHOPAEDIC TRAUMA
- •DISLOCATIONS
- •THE KNEE
- •ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE
- •ROTATOR CUFF
- •MISCELLANEOUS
- •ORTHOPAEDIC INFECTIONS
- •ORTHOPAEDIC TUMORS
- •ARTHRITIS
- •PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDICS
- •HEAD TRAUMA
- •SPINAL CORD TRAUMA
- •TUMORS
- •VASCULAR NEUROSURGERY
- •SPINE
- •PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY
- •SCROTAL ANATOMY
- •UROLOGIC DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
- •RENAL CELL CARCINOMA (RCC)
- •BLADDER CANCER
- •PROSTATE CANCER
- •BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA
- •TESTICULAR CANCER
- •TESTICULAR TORSION
- •EPIDIDYMITIS
- •PRIAPISM
- •ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
- •CALCULUS DISEASE
- •INCONTINENCE
- •URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI)
- •MISCELLANEOUS UROLOGY QUESTIONS
- •Rapid Fire Power Review
- •TOP 100 CLINICAL SURGICAL MICROVIGNETTES
- •Figure Credits
- •Index
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Which vein runs behind the |
LEFT common iliac vein |
RIGHT common iliac artery? |
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Which renal vein is longer? |
Left |
MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA |
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CHRONIC MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA |
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What is it? |
Chronic intestinal ischemia from |
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long-term occlusion of the intestinal |
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arteries; most commonly results from |
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atherosclerosis; usually in two or more |
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arteries because of the extensive |
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collaterals |
What are the symptoms? |
Weight loss, postprandial abdominal |
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pain, anxiety/fear of food because of |
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postprandial pain, heme occult, |
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diarrhea/vomiting |
What is “intestinal angina”? |
Postprandial pain from gut ischemia |
What are the signs? |
Abdominal bruit is commonly heard |
How is the diagnosis made? |
A-gram, duplex, MRA |
What supplies blood to the |
1. Celiac axis vessels |
gut? |
2. SMA |
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3. IMA |
What is the classic finding |
Two of the three mesenteric arteries are |
on A-gram? |
occluded, and there is atherosclerotic |
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narrowing of the third patent artery |
What are the treatment |
Bypass, endarterectomy, angioplasty, |
options? |
stenting |
ACUTE MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA |
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What is it? |
Acute onset of intestinal ischemia |
What are the causes? 1. Emboli to a mesenteric vessel from the heart
2.Acute thrombosis of long-standing atherosclerosis of mesenteric artery
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What are the causes of |
AFib, MI, cardiomyopathy, valve disease/ |
emboli from the heart? |
endocarditis, mechanical heart valve |
What drug has been |
Digitalis |
associated with acute |
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intestinal ischemia? |
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To which intestinal artery do |
Superior Mesenteric Artery (SMA) |
emboli preferentially go? |
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What are the signs/ |
Severe pain—classically “pain out of |
symptoms of acute |
proportion to physical exam,” no |
mesenteric ischemia? |
peritoneal signs until necrosis, vomiting/ |
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diarrhea/hyperdefecation, heme stools |
What is the classic triad of |
1. Acute onset of pain |
acute mesenteric ischemia? |
2. Vomiting, diarrhea, or both |
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3. History of AFib or heart disease |
What is the gold standard |
Mesenteric A-gram |
diagnostic test? |
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What is the treatment of a |
Perform Fogarty catheter embolectomy, |
mesenteric embolus? |
resect obviously necrotic intestine, and |
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leave marginal looking bowel until a |
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“second look” laparotomy is performed |
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24 to 72 hours postoperatively |
What is the treatment of acute thrombosis?
Papaverine vasodilator via A-gram catheter until patient is in the OR; then, most surgeons would perform a supraceliac aorta graft to the involved intestinal artery or endarterectomy; intestinal resection/second look as needed
MEDIAN ARCUATE LIGAMENT SYNDROME
What is it?
What is the median arcuate ligament comprised of?
Mesenteric ischemia resulting from narrowing of the celiac axis vessels by extrinsic compression by the median arcuate ligament
Diaphragm hiatus fibers
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What are the symptoms? |
Postprandial pain, weight loss |
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What are the signs? |
Abdominal bruit in almost all patients |
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How is the diagnosis made? |
A-gram |
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What is the treatment? |
Release arcuate ligament surgically |
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CAROTID VASCULAR DISEASE |
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ANATOMY |
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Identify the following |
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Internal carotid artery |
structures: |
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External carotid artery |
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Carotid “bulb” |
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4. |
Superior thyroid artery |
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5. |
Common carotid artery |
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(Shaded area: common site of plaque |
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formation) |
What are the signs/ |
Amaurosis fugax, TIA, RIND, CVA |
symptoms? |
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Define the following terms: |
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Amaurosis fugax |
Temporary monocular blindness (“curtain |
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coming down”): seen with microemboli |
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to retina; example of TIA |
TIA |
Transient Ischemic Attack: focal |
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neurologic deficit with resolution of all |
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symptoms within 24 hours |
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RIND |
Reversible Ischemic Neurologic Deficit: |
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transient neurologic impairment (without |
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any lasting sequelae) lasting 24 to 72 hours |
CVA |
CerebroVascular Accident (stroke): |
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neurologic deficit with permanent brain |
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damage |
What is the risk of a CVA in |
10% a year |
patients with TIA? |
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What is the noninvasive |
Carotid ultrasound/Doppler: gives |
method of evaluating carotid |
general location and degree of stenosis |
disease? |
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What is the gold standard |
A-gram |
invasive method of |
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evaluating carotid disease? |
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What is the surgical treatment of carotid stenosis?
What are the indications for CEA in the ASYMPTOMATIC patient?
What are the indications for CEA in the SYMPTOMATIC (CVA, TIA, RIND) patient?
Carotid EndArterectomy (CEA): the removal of the diseased intima and media of the carotid artery, often performed with a shunt in place
Carotid artery stenosis 60% (greatest benefit is probably in patients with 80% stenosis)
Carotid stenosis 50%
Before performing a CEA in Head CT the symptomatic patient, what
study other than the A-gram should be performed?
In bilateral high-grade carotid stenosis, on which side should the CEA be performed in the asymptomatic, right-handed patient?
Left CEA first, to protect the dominant hemisphere and speech center
What is the dreaded |
Stroke (CVA) |
complication after a CEA? |
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