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Access practical and up-to-date information on the most important aspects of trauma surgical care, including operative management and surgical critical care strategies and protocols including ventilator management, damage control, noninvasive techniques, imaging, infection control. This textbook provides the latest information to deal with mass casualties and injuries induced by chemical and biological agents, making it a unique reference source.
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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 - The Development of Trauma Systems
Chapter 2 - Trauma Center Organization and Verification (chapter online)
Chapter 3 - Injury Severity Scoring: Its Definition and Practical Application (chapter online)
Chapter 4 - The Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs in Trauma (chapter online)
Chapter 5 - The Role of Trauma Prevention in Reducing Interpersonal Violence (chapter online)
Chapter 6 - Trauma Scoring (chapter online)
Chapter 7 - Results of the Medical Strategy for Military Trauma in Colombia
Chapter 8 - Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Influence in Outcome at Trauma Center
Chapter 9 - Field Triage in the Military Arena (chapter online)
Chapter 10 - Field Triage in the Civilian Arena (chapter online )
Chapter 11 - Prehospital Airway Management: Intubation, Devices and Controversies
Chapter 12 - Prehospital Fluid Resuscitation: What Type, How Much, and Controversies
Chapter 13 - Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events
Chapter 14 - Injuries from Explosives
Chapter 15 - Prehospital Care of Biological Agent-Induced Injuries
Chapter 16 - Wound Ballistics: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know
Chapter 17 - Common Prehospital Complications and Pitfalls in the Trauma Patient
Chapter 18 - Airway Management: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know, From Intubation to Cricothyroidotomy
Chapter 19 - Resuscitation Fluids
Chapter 20 - Emergency Department Thoracotomy
Chapter 21 - Fast Focused Assessment with Sonography for the Trauma Patient
Chapter 22 - The Role of Radiology in the Initial Trauma Evaluation
Chapter 23 - Interventional Radiology: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Roles
Chapter 24 - Endpoints of Resuscitation
Chapter 25 - Traumatic Brain Injury: Pathophysiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Prehospital and Emergency Center Care
Chapter 26 - Traumatic Brain Injury: Imaging, Operative and Nonoperative Care, and Complications
Chapter 27 - Spine: Spinal Cord Injury, Blunt and Penetrating, Neurogenic and Spinal Shock
Chapter 28 - Maxillofacial Trauma
Chapter 29 - Trauma to the Eye and Orbit
Chapter 30 - Penetrating Neck Injuries: Diagnosis and Current Management
Chapter 31 - Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries
Chapter 32 - Tracheal, Laryngeal, and Oropharyngeal Injuries
Chapter 33 - Pertinent Surgical Anatomy of the Thorax and Mediastinum
Chapter 34 - Thoracic wall injuries: ribs, sternal, scapular fractures, hemo- and pnuemothoraces
Chapter 35 - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Roles of Bronchoscopy and Video-assisted Thoracoscopy in the Management of Thoracic Trauma
Chapter 36 - Pulmonary Contusion and Flail Chest
Chapter 37 - Operative Treatment of Chest Wall Injury
Chapter 38 - Tracheal and Tracheobronchial Tree Injuries
Chapter 39 - Operative Management of Pulmonary Injuries: Lung-Sparing and Formal Resections
Chapter 40 - Complications of Pulmonary and Pleural Injury
Chapter 41 - Cardiac Injuries
Chapter 42 - Thoracic Vascular Injury
Chapter 43 - Open and Endovascular Management of Thoracic Aortic Injuries
Chapter 44 - Treatment of Esophageal Injury
Chapter 45 - Diaphragmatic Injury
Chapter 46 - Surgical Anatomy of the Abdomen and Retroperitoneum
Chapter 47 - Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage and Laparoscopy in the Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma
Chapter 48 - Non-Operative Management of Blunt and Penetrating Abdominal Injuries
Chapter 49 - Gastric Injuries
Chapter 50 - Small Bowel Injury
Chapter 51 - Duodenal Injuries
Chapter 52 - Pancreatic Injuries and Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Chapter 53 - Liver Injury
Chapter 54 - Splenic Injuries
Chapter 55 - Abdominal Vascular Injury
Chapter 56 - Colon and Rectal Injuries
Chapter 57 - Genitourinary Tract Injuries
Chapter 58 - Gynecologic Injuries: Trauma to Gravid and Non-Gravid Uterus and Female Genitalia
Chapter 59 - Multidisciplinary Management of Pelvic Fractures: Operative and Nonoperative Management
Chapter 60 - Current Concepts in the Diagnosis and Management of Hemorrhagic Shock
Chapter 61 - The Syndrome of Exsanguination: Reliable Models to Indicate Damage Control
Chapter 62 - Damage Control Resuscitation: An Evidence-Based Report
Chapter 63 - Surgical Techniques for Thoracic, Abdominal, Pelvic and Extremity Damage Control
Chapter 64 - Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, Damage Control, and the Open Abdomen
Chapter 65 - Torso Trauma on the Modern Battlefield
Chapter 66 - Vascular Anatomy of the Extremities
Chapter 67 - The Diagnosis of Vascular Trauma
Chapter 68 - Penetrating Carotid Artery: Uncommon Complex and Lethal injuries
Chapter 69 - Subclavian Vessel Injuries: Difficult Anatomy and Difficult Territory
Chapter 70 - Operative Exposure and Management of Axillary Vessel Injuries
Chapter 71 - Brachial Vessel Injuries: High Morbidity and Low Mortality Injuries
Chapter 72 - Iliac Vessel Injuries: Difficult Injuries and Difficult Management Problems
Chapter 73 - Femoral Vessel Injuries; High Mortality and Low Morbidity Injuries
Chapter 74 - Popliteal Vessel Injuries; Complex Anatomy and High Amputation Rates
Chapter 75 - Temporary Vascular Shunts
Chapter 76 - Upper Extremity Fractures: Orthopaedic Management
Chapter 77 - Lower Extremity and Degloving Injury
Chapter 78 - Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar Fractures
Chapter 79 - Pelvic Fractures
Chapter 80 - Wrist and Hand Fractures: Orthopaedic Management of Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care (chapter online)
Chapter 81 - Scapulothoracic Dissociation and Degloving Injuries of the Extremities (chapter online)
Chapter 82 - Extremity Replantation: Indications and Timing (chapter online)
Chapter 83 - Special Techniques for the Management of Complex Musculoskeletal Injuries: The Roles of Fasciocutaneous and Myocutaneous Flaps (chapter online)
Chapter 84 - Airway Management: What Every Surgeon Should Know about the Traumatic Airway (The Anesthesiologist’s Perspective)
Chapter 85 - Pediatric Trauma
Chapter 86 - Trauma in Pregnancy
Chapter 87 - Trauma in our "Elders"
Chapter 88 - Burns
Chapter 89 - Soft Tissue Infections
Chapter 90 - Common Errors in Trauma Care
Chapter 91 - Combat Trauma Care: Lessons Learned from a Decade of War
Chapter 92 - Cardiac Hemodynamics: The Pulmonary Artery Catheter and the Meaning of Its Readings
Chapter 93 - Oxygen Transport
Chapter 94 - Pharmacologic Support of Cardiac Failure
Chapter 95 - The Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Dysrhythmias
Chapter 96 - Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter 97 - Advanced Techniques in Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter 98 - The Management of Renal Failure: Renal Replacement Therapy and Dialysis
Chapter 99 - Management of Coagulation Disorders in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 100 - The Management of Endocrine Disorders in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Chapter 101 - Transfusion: Management of Blood and Blood Products in Trauma
Chapter 102 - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Chapter 103 - Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome and Multiple-Organ Dysfunction Syndrome: Definition, Diagnosis, and Management
Chapter 104 - Sepsis, Septic Shock, and its Treatment
Chapter 105 - The Immunology of Trauma
Chapter 106 - Overview of Infectious Diseases in Trauma Patients
Chapter 107 - Nosocomial Pneumonia
Chapter 108 - Antibiotic Use in the Intensive Care Unit: The Old and the New
Chapter 109 - Fungal Colonization and Infection During Critical Illness
Chapter 110 - Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Nutritional Support: Strategies for Enteral and Parenteral Therapies
Chapter 111 - Venous Thromboembolism: Diagnosis and Treatment
Chapter 112 - Hypothermia and Trauma
Chapter 113 - Surgical Procedures in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (chapter online
Chapter 114 - Anesthesia in the Critical Care Unit and Pain Management (chapter online)
Chapter 115 - Diagnostic Management of Brain Death in the ICU and Organ Donation (chapter online)
Chapter 116 - Palliative Care in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit (chapter online)
Chapter 117 - Trauma Rehabilitation (chapter online)
Chapter 118 - Trauma Outcomes (chapter online)
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