Surgical emergency

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Surgical emergency is a medical emergency which requires immediate surgical intervention (the only way to solve the problem successfully).

The following conditions are surgical emergencies:

• Accidental amputation
• Acute airway obstruction
• Acute appendicitis
• Acute mesenteric ischemia
• Acute subdural hematoma
• Acute trauma
• Aortic dissection
• Bleeding ectopic pregnancy
• Bowel obstruction
• Cardiac tamponade
• Internal bleeding
• Intestinal volvulus
• Limb ischemia
• Paraphimosis
• Peritonitis
• Pneumothorax
• Priapism
• Retained abortion
• Ruptured aortic aneurysm
• Stercoral perforation
• Testicular torsion
• Urinary retention

• List of medical emergencies
• Advanced Trauma Life Support

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