Written by the world’s leading colorectal surgeons, this stand-alone text investigates the risks and benefits of colorectal surgeries, identifying the best practices for patient safety and positive outcomes to ensure that physicians correctly recognize potential problems and carefully manage complications.
To address the vast range of colorectal diseases and conditions, Improved Outcomes in Colon and Rectal Surgery utilizes:
• evidence-based and objective outcome data
• clinical cases
• technique descriptions
• practice parameters
• care paths
• treatment algorithms
Preexisting Conditions
Bowel Preparation for Elective Colon Surgery
Anesthesia and Intraoperative Positioning
Sepsis
Intraoperative Anastomotic Challenges
Other Intraoperative Challenges
Postoperative Anastomotic Complications
General Postoperative Complications
Care Paths and optimal postoperative management
Limitations of Anal Physiology Testing
Limitations of Colorectal Imaging Studies
Transanal Endoscopy
Laparoscopic Surgery
Medicolegal Issues
Miscellaneous Conditions
Quality and Outcome Measures
Disease or Operation Specific
Hemorrhoidal Surgery
Nonoperative Therapy for Hemorrhoidal Disease
Surgery and Nonoperative Therapy of Perirectal Abscesses and Anal Fistulas
Surgery and Nonoperative Therapy of Anal Fissures and Anal Stenosis
Surgery for Pilonidal Disease and Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Surgery for Fecal Incontinence
Surgery for Rectal Prolapse
Surgery and Nonoperative Therapy for Diverticular Disease
Abdominal Surgery for Colorectal Cancer
Transanal Surgery for Rectal Cancer
Abdominoperineal Resection
Surgery for Metastatic Disease
Chemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer
Acute and Late Toxicity of Radiation Therapy
Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis
Surgery for Crohn’s disease
Ostomies
Surgery for Constipation
Colorectal Trauma
Urologic Complications of Colorectal Surgery
Dr Charles B. Whitlow, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA, (USA)
Dr David E. Beck, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA, USA)
Dr David A. Margolin, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA, USA)
Dr Terry C. Hicks, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA, USA)
