Variability in care in emergency surgery is well known, particularly in abdominal surgery, and reducing it is fundamental to improving outcomes. It is therefore vital to identify the factors that are key to improving mortality and reducing complications in various surgical emergencies. Under the leadership of the World Society of Emergency Surgery, over 200 leading experts in emergency surgery, critical care and surgical infections established a template to help define and optimise emergency surgery, particularly that relating to the abdomen. This book refines this initial work, crystallising it into a meaningful resource for practising surgeons and health care administrators alike, and paving the way for advances in emergency surgery around the globe. This book sets a benchmark for Emergency Surgery and is a must read for those wanting their patients to do better.

A deluge of rain and a strange hitchhiker combine to transport martial arts champion Noah King on a bizarre course to an alternate world. Days whiz by in a fraction of a second when he enters a mysterious fog. His passenger, Sylv, is not what she seems. She admits to being a Tabizi, the instigator of his fog-encased journey to World 5. She has chosen him to intervene in the anarchy of a split world two hundred years in the future. Time reversal fails, and Sylv is stranded with Noah. She deserts him in the forest, and becomes known as Dark Seeress. Noah discovers he must fight the anarchist leader in blood sport to survive. After he defeats his opponent, an influential dwarf proclaims him the new king. Captive women flee to the forest, where Sylv declares all women are under her protection. Noah learns this world was split by quakes and volcanic action that left a 100 meter high Great Wall circling the globe. Cannibals roam the Wasteland on one side, preying on refugees. War is imperative to keep the savages out of Noah's lush green kingdom, but Sylv refuses to ally herself and the other women with his forces.

At the height of a freak storm a 911 caller reports a murder at the Ambrough Arms, NYC's new high-rise sliver. Chief of Detectives Darrel Randsome, aware that his estranged daughter resides in the Ambrough Arms, hurries to reach the scene. His progress is hampered by streets awash with filthy water, the result of a month-long sanitation workers' strike, that has plugged storm sewer drains with garbage. Randsome and four Crime Scene Unit detectives find more suspects than they bargained for in the high-rise sliver. The investigation gets complicated when Randsome discovers the Ambrough is owned by mobsters, and the DA is keeping twenty-four hour surveillance on the mob boss in 7A. Criminals abound as Randsome sifts though evidence. He struggles to do his job, but worries about his daughter's safety .