A Clinical Guide to Urologic Emergencies

A Clinical Guide to Urologic Emergencies A Clinical Guide to Urologic EmergenciesAn ageing population and a predicted shortfall in the number of urologists means that, increasingly, the management of complex urological problems will fall to hospital emergency departments and the surgeries of primary care physicians. With many doctors and medical students now having less exposure to urology, there is a real and urgent need for accessible and practical guidance in managing urologic emergencies.A Clinical Guide to Urologic Emergencies offers practical guidance to the best practices in diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with urgent urological conditions. Designed to be an extremely useful tool to consult in the clinical setting, it will be a vital source of information and guidance for all clinicians, irrespective of their level of urologic knowledge.Edited by an outstanding international editor team, this book is particularly aimed at physicians, advanced practice providers, and urology and emergency medicine trainees managing patients in diverse healthcare settings across the globe.A Clinical Guide to Urologic Emergencies is accompanied by a website featuring video content at wiley.com/go/wessells/urologic

A Clinical Guide to Urologic EmergenciesA Clinical Guide to Urologic EmergenciesAn ageing population and a predicted shortfall in the number of urologists means that, increasingly, the management of complex urological problems will fall to hospital emergency departments and the surgeries of primary care physicians. With many doctors and medical students now having less exposure to urology, there is a real and urgent need for accessible and practical guidance in managing urologic emergencies.A Clinical Guide to Urologic Emergencies offers practical guidance to the best practices in diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with urgent urological conditions. Designed to be an extremely useful tool to consult in the clinical setting, it will be a vital source of information and guidance for all clinicians, irrespective of their level of urologic knowledge.Edited by an outstanding international editor team, this book is particularly aimed at physicians, advanced practice providers, and urology and emergency medicine trainees managing patients in diverse healthcare settings across the globe.A Clinical Guide to Urologic Emergencies is accompanied by a website featuring video content at wiley.com/go/wessells/urologic

ContributorsPrefaceSECTION 1 Upper Urinary Tract1 Blunt Renal InjuriesLindsay Hampson and Nnenaya Mmonu2 Penetrating Renal Trauma - A Civilian and Military PerspectiveJonathan Wingate3 Renal InfectionsBrusabhanu Nayak, Nitin Srivastava, and Rajeev Kumar4 Acute Kidney Stone ManagementJustin S. Ahn and Jonathan D. Harper5 Traumatic Adrenal HemorrhageHong Truong and Bradley D. Figler6 External Ureteral TraumaHumberto G. Villarreal and Steven J. Hudak7 Iatrogenic Ureteral injuryHaruaki Kato, Kazuyoshi Iijima, Tomohiko Oguchi, Seiji YanoSECTION 2 Lower Urinary Tract8 Bladder InjuriesYosuke Nakajima9 TRAUMATIC URETHRAL INJURIESLaura G. Velarde and Reynaldo G. Gómez10 Acute management of urethral strictureAkio Horiguchi11 PROSTATITIS AND PROSTATIC ABSCESSHunter WessellsSECTION 3 External Genitalia12 Fournier's GangreneKosuke Kitamura and Shigeo Horie13 Traumatic Penile InjuriesAriel Fredrick and Alex J. Vann14 PriapismAkash A. Kapadia, Kevin Ostrowski and Thomas J. Walsh15 Traumatic Scrotal and Testicular InjuriesMarios Hadjipavlou and Davendra Sharm16 Testicular TorsionAlexander J. Skokan and Dana A. Weiss17 Epididymitis and OrchitisNorman ZambranoSECTION 4 Pediatric18 Urologic Neonatal EmergenciesNicolas Fernandez and Nayib FakihIndex