Small Intestine Surgery - General Surgery

Surgery · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Guia exhaustiva de anatomia quirurgica, fisiologia, obstruccion, isquemia mesenterica, enfermedad inflamatoria, tumores, trauma, fistulas enterocutaneas, reseccion intestinal, anastomosis y sindrome de intestino corto.

What it covers

1. Introduction to Small Intestine Surgery
2. Surgical Anatomy
3. · Length, fixation and topography
4. · Mesenteric vascularization
5. Applied Physiology and Nutrition
6. · Motility
7. Diagnostic Evaluation
8. Small Intestine Obstruction
9. · Simple obstruction vs closed handle
10. Acute and Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia
11. · Treatment
12. Perforation, Peritonitis and Intra-abdominal Infection
13. · Decision: closure, resection or ostomy
14. Small Intestine and Mesentery Trauma
15. Crohn's Disease of the Small Intestine
16. · Surgical strategies
17. Meckel's Diverticulum and Other Diverticula
18. Small Intestine Tumors
19. Enterocutaneous Fistulas and Small Intestine Ostomies
20. · Management principles
21. Resection, Anastomosis and Surgical Technique
22. Short Bowel Syndrome and Intestinal Failure
23. Decision Algorithms
24. Postoperative Ileus, Paralytic Ileus and Pseudoobstruction
25. · Differential with early mechanical obstruction
26. · Management of ileus
27. · Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction
28. Digestive Bleeding of Small Intestine Origin
29. · Diagnostic strategy according to bleeding rate
30. · Specific injuries
31. Radiation Enteritis and Iatrogenic Intestinal Injury
32. · Surgery indications
33. · Iatrogenic injuries
34. Internal Hernias, Mesenteric Defects and Closed Loop Obstruction
35. · Internal hernia after gastric bypass
36. · Repair principles
37. Malrotation, Volvulus of the Middle Intestine and Intussusception
38. · Ladd Procedure
39. · Intussusception
40. Infectious, Inflammatory and Systemic Diseases with Surgical Relevance
41. · Intestinal tuberculosis
42. · Typhoid fever
43. · Enteropathy due to NSAIDs
44. · Complicated celiac disease
45. Postoperative Care and Specific Complications
46. · Anastomotic leak
47. · High output ileostomy
48. · Abscess and collections
49. Drugs, Immunosuppression and Surgical Risk
50. · Preoperative optimization
51. Critical Errors, Examination Pearls and High Mortality Scenarios
52. · High mortality scenarios
53. Surgical Radiological Semiology of the Small Intestine
54. · Signs of obstruction and strangulation
55. · Patterns in Crohn's
56. · Image in ischemia
57. Preoperative Preparation, ERAS and Incision Planning
58. · Preoperative nutrition
59. · Antibiotics and prophylaxis
60. · Boarding planning
61. Open Abdomen, Damage Control and Second Look Laparotomy
62. · Intestinal damage control
63. · Second look in ischemia
64. · Prevention of enteroatmospheric fistula
65. Advanced Intestinal Failure, Rehabilitation and Intestinal Transplant
66. · Intestinal rehabilitation
67. · Reconstructive surgery and autologous gastrointestinal reconstruction
68. · Intestinal transplant indications