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Surgical infections encompass a wide-ranging group of diseases, which account for a large burden of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Surgical infections include de novo infectious diseases that require surgery or procedural interventions for cure; common examples include abscesses, intraabdominal infections…

Ultrasound (US) has become an indispensable part of the surgeon’s armamentarium, useful in both bedside assessment and operative treatment. Because the diagnostic and critical care applications of US are discussed elsewhere, this chapter will focus on intraoperative and US-guided surgical…