Description
Drawing on the experience and knowledge of master world-renowned trauma surgeons, Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, 3rd Edition, offers a comprehensive summary of optimal treatment and post-operative management of traumatic injuries. Ideally suited for everyday use, this practical, concise reference highlights the most important aspects of urgent surgical care, from damage control to noninvasive techniques to chemical and biological injuries. A focus on the surgical techniques required to manage even the most complex injuries makes it both an excellent resource for quick review before entering the operating room and a valuable review tool for board certification or recertification.- Covers the entire spectrum of Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care—from initial evaluation, military and civilian field and trauma center evaluation and resuscitation, to diagnosis, operative, and postoperative critical care and outcomes—in nearly 100 print and 39 online-exclusive chapters, all newly streamlined to emphasize frontline procedural treatment.- Features extensive new data and updates to Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular, and Military Surgery chapters, plus numerous new intraoperative photographs and high-quality line drawings that highlight the most important aspects of urgent surgical care.- Contains 14 new chapters, including Innovations in Trauma Surgery Simulation; Air Evacuation and Critical Care in Military Casualties; REBOA: Indications and Controversies; Penetrating Extracranial Vertebral Artery; Penetrating Arterio-Venous Fistulas; The Genomics of Profound Shock and Trauma; ECMO; and newer strategies, such as nerve blocks for pain management to combat the opioid epidemic.- Incorporates a wealth of military knowledge from both recent and past military conflicts, as well as from asymmetric warfare; many of the authors and co-authors have extensive past and present military experience.- Uses a consistent, easy-to-follow chapter format throughout, for quick and easy reference and review.- Reviews the essential principles of diagnosis and treatment, as well as the specifics of surgical therapy, making it useful for surgeons across all specialties.- Integrates evidence-based practice guidelines into the text whenever possible, as well as comprehensive utilization of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma – Organ Injury Scales (AAST-OIS).- Contains such a wealth of operative photographs and line drawings, both in the printed version and many more in the electronic version, that it could be considered an Atlas of Trauma Surgery.- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
Table of Contents
PART I. TRAUMA SYSTEMSDevelopment of Trauma SystemsTrauma Center Organization and VerificationInjury Severity Scoring: Its Definition and Practical ApplicationRole of Alcohol and Other Drugs in TraumaRole of Trauma Prevention in Reducing Interpersonal ViolenceTrauma ScoringResults of the Medical Strategy for Military Trauma in ColombiaPART II. PREHOSPITAL TRAUMA CAREInfluence of Emergency Medical Services on Outcome at Trauma CenterField Triage in the Military ArenaField Triage in the Civilian ArenaPrehospital Airway Management: Intubation, Devices, and ControversiesPrehospital Fluid Resuscitation: What Type, How Much, and ControversiesCivilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty EventsInjuries from ExplosivesPrehospital Care of Biologic Agent-Induced InjuriesWound Ballistics: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should KnowCommon Prehospital Complications and Pitfalls in the Trauma PatientPART III. INITIAL ASSESSMENT AND RESUSCITATIONAirway Management: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know, From Intubation to CricothyroidotomyResuscitation FluidsResuscitative ThoracotomyFocused Assessment with Sonography for the Trauma PatientRole of Radiology in Initial Trauma EvaluationInterventional Radiology: Diagnostic andTherapeuticRolesEndpoints of ResuscitationPART IV. HEAD AND CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURIESTraumatic Brain Injury: Pathophysiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Prehospital and Emergency Center CareTraumatic Brain Injury: Imaging, Operative and Nonoperative Care, and ComplicationsSpine: Spinal Cord Injury, Blunt and Penetrating, Neurogenic and Spinal ShockPART V. MAXILLOFACIAL AND OCULAR INJURIESMaxillofacial TraumaTrauma to the Eye and OrbitPART VI. NECK INJURIESPenetrating Neck Injuries: Diagnosis and Current ManagementBlunt Cerebrovascular InjuriesTracheal, Laryngeal, and Oropharyngeal InjuriesPART VII. THORACIC INJURIESPertinent Surgical Anatomy of the Thorax and MediastinumThoracic Wall Injuries: Ribs, Sternal, and Scapular Fractures; Hemothoraces and PneumothoracesDiagnostic and Therapeutic Roles of Bronchoscopy and Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy in the Management of Thoracic TraumaPulmonary Contusion and Flail ChestOperative Treatment of Chest Wall InjuryTracheal and Tracheobronchial Tree InjuriesOperative Management of Pulmonary Injuries: Lung-Sparing and Formal ResectionsComplications of Pulmonary and Pleural InjuryCardiac InjuriesThoracic Vascular InjuryOpen and Endovascular Management of Thoracic Aortic InjuriesTreatment of Esophageal InjuryPART VIII. ABDOMINAL INJURIESDiaphragmatic InjurySurgical Anatomy of the Abdomen and RetroperitoneumDiagnostic Peritoneal Lavage and Laparoscopy in the Evaluation of Abdominal TraumaNonoperative Management of Blunt and Penetrating Abdominal InjuriesGastric InjuriesSmall Bowel InjuryDuodenal InjuriesPancreatic Injuries and PancreaticoduodenectomyLiver InjurySplenic InjuriesAbdominal Vascular InjuryColon and Rectal InjuriesGenitourinary Tract InjuriesGynecologic Injuries: Trauma to Gravid and Nongravid Uterus and Female GenitaliaMultidisciplinary Management of Pelvic Fractures: Operative and Nonoperative ManagementPART IX. SPECIAL ISSUES IN MAJOR TORSO TRAUMACurrent Concepts in the Diagnosis and Management of Hemorrhagic ShockThe Syndrome of Exsanguination: Reliable Models to Indicate Damage ControlDamage Control Resuscitation: An Evidence-Based ReportSurgical Techniques for Thoracic, Abdominal, Pelvic, and Extremity Damage ControlAbdominal Compartment Syndrome, Damage Control, and the Open AbdomenTorso Trauma on the Modern BattlefieldPART X.
