Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

by Asensio, Juan A.; Trunkey, Donald D.

• ISBN13: 9780323044189
• ISBN10: 0323044182
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-12
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science

Summary

Heres a unified evidence-based approach to problems encountered in trauma and critical care surgical situations. Comprehensive and concise, it is ideal for a quick overview before entering the operating room or ICU, or as a review for board certification or recertification. Be prepared for the unexpected with practical, concise coverage of major surgical problems in trauma and critical care. Get expert practical and up-to-date guidance on ventilator management, damage control, noninvasive techniques, imaging, infection control, dealing with mass casualties, treating injuries induced by chemical and biological agents, and much more. Find the information you need quickly and easily through numerous illustrations, key points boxes, algorithms, and tables.

Table of Contents

Trauma Systems

The Development of Trauma Systems, Trunkey

Trauma Center Organization and Verification, Eastridge

Injury Severity Scoring: Its Definition & Practical Application, Osler

The Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs in Trauma, Gentilello

The Role of Trauma Prevention in Reducing Interpersonal Violence, Cornwell

Trauma Scoring, VanDerHeyden

Trauma Systems & Trauma Triage Algorithms, Pepe

Pre-hospital Trauma Care

Delivering Multidisciplinary Trauma Care: Current Challenges and Future Directions, Habib

Triage, Armstrong

Pre-Hospital Airway Management: Intubation, Devices, and Controversies, Coimbra

Pre-Hospital Fluid Resuscitation: What type, how much and controversies, Newell

Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events, Dicker

Blast Injuries, Pepe

Pre-Hospital Care of Biological Agent Induced Injuries, Swan

Wound Ballistics: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know, Mayberry

Common Pre-Hospital Complications and Pitfalls in the Trauma Patient, Mitchell

Initial Assessment and Resuscitation

Airway Management: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know, From Intubation to Cricothyroidotomy, Gross

Resuscitation Fluids, Schreiber

Emergency Department Thoracotomy, Asensio

The Role of Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma: Indications, Limitations, and Controversies, Dunham

The Use of Computed Tomography in Initial Trauma Evaluation, Sjoholm

Interventional Radiology: Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Maish

Endpoints of Resuscitation, Englehart

Head and Central Nervous System Injuries

Traumatic Brain Injury: Pathophysiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Pre-Hospital and Emergency Center Care, Valadka

Traumatic Brain Injury: Imaging, Operative and Nonoperative Care, and Complications, Valadka

Spine: Spinal Cord Injury, Blunt and Penetrating, Neurogenic and Spinal Shock, Tashjian

Maxillofacial Injuries, Granick

Trauma to the Orbit, Meallet

Neck Injuries

Penetrating Neck Injuries: Diagnosis and Selective Management, Weireter

Carotid, Vertebral Artery and Jugular Venous Injuries, Rowe

Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries, Cothren

Tracheal, Laryngeal, and Oropharyngeal Injuries, Fernandez

Thoracic Injuries

Pertinent Surgical Anatomy of the Thorax and Mediastinum, Schipper

Thoracic Wall Injuries: Ribs, Sternal Scapular Raptures, Hemo- and Pneumothoraces, Salvetamal

Diagnostic and Therapeutic roles of Bronchoscopy and Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy in the Management of Thoracic Trauma, Malhotra

Pulmonary contusion and flail chest, Hauser

Tracheal and Tracheobronchial Tree Injuries, Miller

Operative Management of Pulmonary Injuries: Lung-Sparing and Formal Resections, Asensio

Complications of Pulmonary and Pleural Injury, Karmy-Jones

Cardiac Injuries, Asensio

Thoracic Vascular Injury, Chu

Treatment of Esophageal Injury, Christmas

Diaphragmatic Injury, Lucas

Abdominal Injuries

Surgical Anatomy of the Abdomen and Retroperitoneum, Bochicchio

Dianostic Peritoneal Lavage and Laparoscopy in Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma

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