Complications of Urologic Surgery and Practice: Diagnosis, Prevention, and Management PDF

Preface

A surgical career is interspersed with incredible highs and incredible lows. The exhilaration one feels when a procedure goes well can be followed the next day by a devastating complication. Yet, we learn much more from our failures, the complications, than we do from our successes, the triumphs. In fact, surgery is one of the few professions where usually, on a weekly basis, we discuss and analyze our complications and try to learn from them. Urologic surgical practice has seen enormous changes in the past decade. The practicing urologist is now faced with a wide array of procedures that were not even performed a few short years ago. Therefore, it is more important now than ever before to have a one-volume source that reviews the diagnosis, management, and prevention of urologic complications.

This book is divided into five sections: perioperative complications, complications of open surgical procedures, pediatric surgical complications, complications of minimally invasive procedures, and miscellaneous complications. These divisions are intended to facilitate the use of the book by urologists who emphasize different aspects of urology in their practice. The book places special emphasis on some of the newer minimally invasive and laparoscopic procedures that are becoming a large part of urologic practice.

I have invited the contributors of this book to provide their insight into the prevention and management of complications that can occur during urologic surgery and practice. I want to thank each of the authors for sharing their expertise and experience with the reader. All aspects of surgery are changing rapidly in today's world, but perhaps nowhere more than in urology. Urologists have already witnessed the impact of technology and the aging of the population on their practice. Urologic care will continue to evolve rapidly in the future and it is my hope that the readers of this book will use it as a trusted companion throughout their urologic careers.