Top Knife: The Art & Craft of Trauma Surgery

by Hirshberg, Asher

• ISBN13: 9781903378229
• ISBN10: 1903378222
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781903378908
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: TFM PUBLISHING

Summary

Operative trauma surgery is a key element of surgical training world-wide, but many surgical trainees have only limited exposure to it throughout their training. The aim of this book is to provide a detailed technical guide for trauma surgery by two experienced surgical educators who are experts in the field. The original concept behind this text (compared to other operative surgery texts) is a special emphasis on intra-operative judgement, decision-making, and thought processes, as well as technical 'tips and tricks'. The book will be generously illustrated with black-and-white line drawings, but will NOT be a surgical atlas, because there will not be a step-by-step sequence of illustrations for each procedure. The illustrations will be incorporated into the text rather than appearing on separate pages. As such, the book will be an 'operative surgery' book, along the lines of such British classics as Peter Jones' 'Emergency Abdominal Surgery', Hugh Dudley's editions of 'Hamilton Bailey's Emergency Surgery' and Keen's 'Operative Surgery and Management'.

Author Biography

Asher Hirshberg is trauma surgeon at the Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston, Texas and full-time faculty in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Introduction What this Book is all About	1	(4)
SECTION I TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Chapter 1 The 3-D Trauma Surgeon	5	(14)
Chapter 2 Stop That Bleeding!	19	(16)
Chapter 3 Your Vascular Toolkit	35	(18)
SECTION II THE ABDOMEN
Chapter 4 The Crash Laparotomy	53	(18)
Chapter 5 Fixing Tubes: The Hollow Organs	71	(12)
Chapter 6 he Injured Liver: Ninja Master	83	(16)
Chapter 7 The "Take-outable" Solid Organs	99	(16)
Chapter 8 The Wounded Surgical Soul	115	(16)
Chapter 9 Big Red & Big Blue: Abdominal Vascular Trauma	131	(16)
SECTION III THE CHEST
Chapter 10 Double Jeopardy: Thoracoabdominal Injuries	147	(10)
Chapter 11 The No-nonsense Trauma Thoracotomy	157	(14)
Chapter 12 The Chest: Inside and Out	171	(10)
Chapter 13 Thoracic Vascular Trauma for the General Surgeon	181	(18)
SECTION IV THE NECK AND EXTREMITIES
Chapter 14 The Neck: Safari in Tiger Country	199	(16)
Chapter 15 Peripheral Vascular Trauma Made Simple	215	(18)
Epilogue The Joy of Trauma Surgery	233