PART I: THE COMPLEXITY OF SURGICAL DECISIONS: SETTING THE STAGE 1. Intraoperative Surgical Decision Making: Is It Art or Is It Science or Is It Both?
Rifat Latifi
2. The Anatomy of the Surgeon's Decision Making
Rifat Latifi
3. The Role of Physiology and the Surgeon's State of the Mind in the Surgical Decision-Making Process
Rifat Latifi
4. Surgeons and Pilots: What Do We Have in Common?
Rifat Latifi
5. A Surgeon's Decisions as the Leader of an Interdisciplinary Action Team
Rifat Latifi, John A. Stroster, and Katherine E. Center
6: Planning and Preparing for the Operation: Guidelines and the
Evidence-Based Decision Tree
Patrizio Petrone, Wilson Dario Rodríguez Velandia, Hans Fred García Araque, Soraya SMolero Perez, and Corrado Paolo Marini
7: The Decision Making Process in Sepsis and Septic Shock
Michelle H. Scerbo and Laura J. Moore
8: Intraoperative Endpoints of Resuscitation
Hans Fred García Araque, Patrizio Petrone, Wilson Dario Rodríguez Velandia, and Corrado Paolo Marini
PART II: DIFFICULT CLINICAL-BASED SURGICAL DECISIONS
9: Surgical Decision-Making Process and Damage Control: Current Principles and Practice
Ruben Peralta, Gaby Jabbour, and Rifat Latifi
10: Reoperative Surgery in Acute Setting: When To Go Back?
Elizabeth M. Windell and Rifat Latifi
11: Surgical Decision Making-Process and Definitive Abdominal Wall Reconstruction
Rifat Latifi, Ruben Peralta, and John A. Stroster
12. Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations in Abdominal Surgery
Rifat Latifi and John A. Stroster
13: Trauma Surgeon Decision Making: Surviving Outside the Realm of the Evidence Based
Samir M. Fakhry
14: Management of the Most Difficult Perioperative and Technical Challenges in Abdominal Transplantation
Chirag S. Desai, Yong Kyong Kwon, Vaughn Whittaker, and Rainer W.G. Gruessner
15: Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations: A Point of View from a Surgical Oncologist
Alberto R. Ferreres
16: Difficult Decisions in Cardiothoracic Surgery: Acute Cardiogenic Shock
Zachary P. Baker, Jack B. Keenan, and Zain Khalpey
17: Dealing with the Most Difficult Situations in Pediatric Surgery Oliver S. Soldes
18: A Surgeon's Thought Process in the Management of Burn Patients
Gary A. Vercruysse and Walter L. Ingram
19: Decision Making in Reconstructive Surgery
Ethan E. Larson, Tolga Turker, and Samuel Skovgaard
20: Decision Making in Reconstructions for Traumatic Defects in Extremity Surgery
Tolga Turker and Ethan E. Larson
PART III: SPECIAL ISSUES IN SURGICAL DECISION MAKING
21: The Surgeon's Burnout: How to Deal with It
Bellal Joseph and Tahereh Orouji Jokar
22: The Surgeon's Response to a Patient Death
Terence O'Keeffe
23: When Should Surgeons Quit Operating?
Stanley J. Dudrick
PART IV: THE FINAL WORD
24. Final Thoughts on Surgical Decision Making
Rifat Latifi and Fortesa Latifi