Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Acute surgical management
  • Section I. Craniofacial Emergencies
  • The Acute Management of Head Injuries / Alvin Hong
  • Intra-cerebral Haemorrhage in Adults / John Thomas
  • Paediatric Neurosurgical Emergencies : A Problem-Based Approach / Keith YC Goh
  • Acute Management of Craniofacial Trauma / Vincent KL Yeow and Andrew Tay
  • Emergencies in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery / Asher Lim and Luan-Yook Teh
  • Section II. Otorhinolaryngological Emergencies
  • Management of Epistaxis / Dharambir S Sethi and Jern-Lin Leong
  • Managing the Difficult Airway in an Emergency Setting / Ruban Poopalalingam, Nian-Chih Hwang and Eugene Chin
  • Tracheostomy / Abhilash Balakrishnan
  • Management of Ingested Foreign Bodies / Wong-Kein Low and Hin-Ngan Tay
  • Section III. Cardiovascular and Thoracic Emergencies
  • Blunt Cardiac Injury / Yeong-Phang Lim, Richard Lupinski and Yeow-Leng Chua
  • Aortic Trauma / Kenny Yoong-Kong Sin and Yeow-Leng Chua
  • Acute Arterial Disease / Meng-Keng Teoh
  • Vascular Trauma / Mathew G. Sebastian
  • Penetrating Trauma to the Chest / Chong-Hee Lim and Thirugnanam Agasthian
  • Section IV. Gastrointestinal Tract Emergencies
  • Management of the Acute Abdomen / Melissa Teo and Kee-Chee Soo
  • Management of Intestinal Obstruction / Choong-Leong Tang and Francis Seow-Choen
  • Management of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding / Wai-Keong Wong
  • Massive Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding / Kong-Weng Eu and Kok-Sun Ho
  • Surgical Emergencies of the Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary System / Pierce Chow
  • Abdominal Trauma / Allen Yeo
  • Section V. Gynaecological Emergencies
  • Female Genital Bleeding / Sun-Kuie Tay and Ann Tan
  • Ectopic Pregnancy / Hak-Koon Tan, Su-Ling Yu and Sun-Kuie Tay
  • Emergency Management of Ovarian Cysts / Sun-Kuie Tay
  • Section VI. Urological Emergencies
  • Acute Non-traumatic Urological Emergencies / Weber Lau and Keong-Tatt Foo
  • Renal and Ureteric Injury / Sidney Yip and Michael Wong
  • Trauma to the Bladder and Urethra / Lay-Guat Ng and Chris Cheng
  • Section VII. Perianal Emergencies
  • Genitoperineal (Fournier's) Gangrene / Yik-Hong Ho
  • Acute Management of Haemorrhoids / Sieu-Min Heah
  • Section VIII. Orthopaedic Emergencies
  • Treatment of Multiple Fractures / Tet-Sen Howe
  • Acute Management of Pathological Fractures / Mann-Hong Tan
  • Section IX. Hand Surgical Emergencies
  • Open Injuries of the Hand : Assessment and Treatment / Lam-Chuan Teoh
  • Infection of the Hand / Fok-Chuan Yong and Lam-Chuan Teoh
  • Section X. Skin and Soft Tissue Injuries
  • Acute Burn Care / Erik SW Ang, Colin Song and Kok-Chai Tan
  • Soft Tissue Injuries / Colin HJ Tham, Ying-Chien Tan, Karen WE Sng and Vincent KL Yeow
  • Part II. Support services
  • Section XI. Radiology
  • Computed Tomography Imaging of Blunt Abdominal Trauma / Siew-Kune Wong
  • The Role of Interventional Radiology in Acute Haemorrhage / Kiang-Hiong Tay, Winston Eng-Hoe Lim and Bien-Soo Tan
  • Section XII. Perioperative Anaesthetic Care
  • Optimisation of Patients for Emergency Surgery / Christine JC Cheng and Nian-Chih Hwang
  • Anaesthesia for Emergency Surgery / Sook-Muay Tay and Chee-Seng Kong
  • Early Postoperative Care of the Acute Surgical Patient / Huei-Leng Chee and Claire Ang.