Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Intraoperative Surgical Decision-Making: Is It Art or Is It Science or Is It Both?
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   Chapter 2 The Anatomy of the Surgeon’s Decision-Making
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   Chapter 3 The Role of Physiology and the Surgeon’s State of Mind in the Surgical Decision-Making Process
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   Chapter 4 Surgeons and Pilots: What Do We Have in Common?
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   Chapter 5 A Surgeon’s Decisions as the Leader of an Interdisciplinary Action Team
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   Chapter 6 Planning and Preparing for the Operation: Guidelines and the Evidence-Based Decision Tree
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   Chapter 7 The Decision-Making Process in Sepsis and Septic Shock
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   Chapter 8 Intraoperative Endpoints of Resuscitation
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    Chapter 9 Surgical Decision-Making Process and Damage Control: Current Principles and Practice
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    Chapter 10 Reoperative Surgery in Acute Setting: When To Go Back?
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    Chapter 11 Surgical Decision-Making Process and Definitive Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
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    Chapter 12 Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations in Abdominal Surgery
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    Chapter 13 Trauma Surgeon Decision-Making: Surviving Outside the Realm of the Evidence Based
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    Chapter 14 Management of the Most Difficult Perioperative and Technical Challenges in Abdominal Transplantation
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    Chapter 15 Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations: A Point of View from a Surgical Oncologist
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    Chapter 16 Difficult Decisions in Cardiothoracic Surgery: Acute Cardiogenic Shock
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    Chapter 17 Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations in Pediatric Surgery
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    Chapter 18 A Surgeon’s Thought Process in the Management of Burn Patients
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    Chapter 19 Decision-Making in Reconstructive Surgery
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    Chapter 20 Decision-Making in Reconstructions for Traumatic Defects in Extremity Surgery
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    Chapter 21 The Surgeon’s Burnout: How to Deal with It
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    Chapter 22 The Surgeon’s Response to a Patient’s Death
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    Chapter 23 When Should Surgeons Quit Operating?
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    Chapter 24 Final Thoughts on Surgical Decision-Making