"This reference provides practical information on complications encountered during and after surgical procedures. It covers preoperative, intra-operative, and postoperative events such as organ transplant, amputations, nerve and fracture repair, and skin grafting. The author offers detailed guidance and techniques to recognize and control complications in the operating room, emergency ward, and intensive care unit. It includes surgical sub-specialties such as critical care, endocrine, cardiothoracic, vascular, burns and wound healing, orthopedic, pediatric, and transplants. The new edition has been revised and reorganized to include nine new chapters and an update of the remaining chapters"--Provided by publisher.

Introduction -- Strategies for reducing variation in surgical outcomes -- Optimizing patient safety in surgery -- Critical care -- Assessment in cardiac and non-cardiac risk factors -- Complications of anaesthesia -- Respiratory failure after surgery or trauma -- Complications of acute fluid loss and replacement -- Acute renal dysfunction -- Complications of nutritional support -- Complications of anticoagulants and blood transfusion -- Complications of antibiotic therapy -- Complications of hypovolemic and septic shock -- Complications associated with the use of invasive devices in the intensive care unit -- Abdomen -- Complications of abdominal wall surgery and hernia repair -- Complications of biliary tract surgery and trauma -- Complications of intestinal surgery -- Complications of gastric surgery -- Complications of hepatic surgery and trauma -- Complications of pancreatic surgery and trauma -- Complications of splenic surgery and splenic injury -- Complications of laparoscopy in general surgery -- Endocrine -- Complications of breast surgery -- Complications of thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy -- Complications of adrenal gland surgery -- Complications in pancreatic and gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors -- Cardiothoracic -- Complications of cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Complications of pulmonary and chest wall resection -- Complications of esophageal surgery and trauma -- Complications of cardiac surgery and trauma -- Vascular -- Venous disease and therapy -- Complications of endovascular procedures -- Complications of open arterial vascular surgery -- Orthopaedic -- Complication of dislocations -- Complications of amputations -- Complications of treatment of the hand -- Neurologic -- Complications of postoperative pain and pain management -- Complications after craniotomy -- Complications after spinal cord injury -- Complications of nerve injury and repair -- Psychological and behavioral complications of trauma -- Burns and wound healing -- Wound and soft tissue complications: complications of wound repair -- Complications of thermal injuries -- Complications of reconstructive surgery -- Genitourinary -- Complications in gynaecologic surgery -- Pediatric -- Complications in pediatric surgery -- Transplantation -- Complications of immunosuppression in solid organ transplantation -- Surgical complications of kidney and pancreas transplantation -- Complications of liver transplantation -- Complications of cardiac and lung transplantation.