ACS Surgery: What's New in March 2008

THE BEST SURGICAL THINKING

• Acute Wound Care

THIS MONTH'S UPDATES

• Elements of Contemporary Practice

• Risk Stratification, Preoperative Testing, and Operative Planning

• Critical Care

• Coma, Cognitive Impairment, and Seizures

THIS MONTH'S ALGORITHM

• Common Causes of Acute Coma

ACS Surgery: What's New in February 2008

The Best Surgical Thinking

• Tumors Involving the Gastroesophageal Junction

This Month's Updates

• Elements of Contemporary Practice

• Professionalism in Surgery

• Vascular System

• Lower-Extremity Ulcers

This Month's Algorithm

• Suspected Lower Abdominal Infection

ACS Surgery: What's New in January 2008

The Best Surgical Thinking

• New Strategies for Treating Helicobacter pylori Infection

This Month's Updates

• Elements of Contemporary Practice
  • 2 Performance Measures in Surgical Practice

• 5 Gastrointestinal Tract and Abdomen
  • 5 Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding

This Month's Algorithm

• Management of Bleeding Varices

ACS Surgery: What's New in November 2007

The Best Surgical Thinking

• Natural Orifice Surgery: Is It Here to Stay?

Eric Hungness, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

This Month's Updates

• 5 Gastrointestinal Tract and Abdomen
  • 27 Open Hernia Repair

Robert J. Fitzgibbons Jr., MD, FACS
Creighton University School of Medicine

Alan T. Richards, MD, FACS
Creighton University School of Medicine

Thomas H. Quinn, PH.D.
Creighton University School of Medicine

Epidemiology, classification of inguinal and ventral hernias, abdominal wall anatomy, choice of prosthetic material, inguinal hernia repair, incisional hernia repair, periumbilical hernia repair, and miscellaneous ventral abdominal wall hernia repairs are discussed.

ACS Surgery: What's New in October 2007

The Best Surgical Thinking

• Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions of the Anus

Carlos E. Pineda, MD
Mark L. Welton, MD, FACS
Stanford University School of Medicine

This Month's Updates

• 3 Breast, Skin, and Soft Tissue
  • 1 Breast Cancer

Doreen M. Agnese, MD, FACS
Stephen P. Povoski, MD, FACS

Wiley W. Souba, MD, SC.D., FACS
Ohio State University College of Medicine

Clinical evaluation, investigative studies, and management of breast cancer are described.

ACS Surgery: What's New in September 2007

The Best Surgical Thinking

• What Should Be the Current Role of Carotid Artery Stenting?

This Month's Updates

• 8 Critical Care
  • 19 Fungal Infection
• 6 Vascular System
  • 17 Infrainguinal Arterial Procedures
• Elements of Contemporary Practice
  • 7 Elements of Cost-Effective Nonemergency Surgical Care