Pediatric Surgery: (Surgical Directives Series)

This first text in a brand new series provides a source for current information regarding the diagnostic approach and treatment of surgical disorders in neonates, children, and adolescents. Designed as a complementary tool to standard comprehensive texts, each chapter is written by an accomplished clinician and provides recommendations for treatment based on clinical expertise and personal approach. Ideal for board review, its concise and direct style includes suggested readings; some areas contain editorial notes and where appropriate invited discussion of controversial topics. Disorders are organized into categories according to sections such as the GI tract, thoracic, trauma, surgical oncology, soft tissue, transplantation, critical care, preoperative care, and more.

Table of Contents:
I. Preoperative and Postoperative Care 1. Preoperative evaluation and testing 2. Prenatal Diagnosis and Counseling for Pediatric Surgical Problems 3. Preparing Children with Special Needs for Discharge: Gastrointestinal Tubes and Stomas 4. Enteral Nutrition 5. Parenteral nutrition 6. Complications in Pediatric Surgery 7. Epidural, Spinal, and Caudal Anesthesia II. Critical Care 8. Shock in the Pediatric Patient 9. Electrolyte Disorders 10. Vascular Access 11. Nontraditional Central Venous Access in Children 12. Acute Renal Failure in Neonates and Infants 13. Respiratory failure and support 14. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation III. Trauma 15. Pediatric trauma resuscitation 16. Head Trauma 17. Spine Injuries 18. Penetrating neck injuries 19. Burns 20. Thoracic Trauma 21. Blunt Abdominal Trauma 22. Penetrating abdominal trauma 23. Guidelines for the Treatment of Children with Blunt Spleen or Liver Injury 24. Vascular injuries 25. Hand Injuries 26. Child Abuse IV. Airway and Head & Neck 27. Management of the Emergent Airway and Tracheotomy 28. Airway Endoscopy 29. Tracheal stenosis 30. Tracheomalacia 31. Posterior Laryngeal Clefts 32. Parathyroid disorders 33. Thyroid disorders 34. Thyroglossal Duct Cysts and Related Disorders 35. Cystic hygroma 36. Salivary Gland Disorders 37. Torticollis V. Esophagus 38. Esophageal Atresia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula 39. Long Gap Esophageal Atresia 40. Caustic Esophageal Injuries 41. Esophageal Foreign Bodies 42. Achalasia 43. Esophageal Perforation 44. Esophageal Duplication VI. Stomach and Small Intestine 45. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease 46. Laparoscopic Fundoplication 47. The Thal fundoplication 48. Gastritis and peptic ulcer disease 49. Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy 50. Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis 51. Duodenal Atresia 52. Intestinal Atresia 53. Alimentary Tract Duplications in Children 54. Anomalies of Intestinal Rotation and Fixation 55. Necrotizing enterocolitis 56. Peritoneal Drainage for Necrotizing Enterocolitis 57. Short Bowel Syndrome in Infancy and Childhood: A Medical and Surgical Perspective 58. Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome 59. Neonatal bowel obstruction 60. Meconium Ileus 61. Meconium Plug Syndrome 62. Meckel's Diverticulum 63. Intussusception 64. Crohn's disease 65. Ileostomy and Colostomy 66. Gastrostomy VII. Colon, Rectum and Anus 67. Intestinal Polyps 68. Ulcerative colitis 69. Constipation 70. Hirschsprung's Disease 71. Long-segment Hirschsprung's Disease 72. Enterocolitis Associated with Hirschsprung's Disease 73. Laparoscopic Pull-through for Hirschsprung's disease 74. Acute appendicitis 75. Appendiceal Abscess 76. Chronic Appendicitis and Appendiceal Colic 77. Laparoscopic Appendectomy 78. Anorectal Malformations 79. The Surgical Management of Fecal Incontinence 80. Perirectal abscess and anal fistula 81. Rectal prolapse 82. Pilonidal Sinus Disease VIII. Thorax and Mediastinum 83. Patent Ductus Arteriosus 84. Vascular Compression Syndromes 85. Mediastinal Masses 86. H