Current therapy of trauma and surgical critical care / [edited by] Juan A. Asensio, Donald D. Trunkey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Trauma Systems -- 1 The Development of Trauma Systems, Trunkey -- 2 Trauma Center Organization and Verification, Eastridge / Thal -- 3 Injury Severity Scoring: Its Definition & Practical Application, Osler / Glance / Bedrick -- 4 The Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs in Trauma, Gentilello / Esposito -- 5 The Role of Trauma Prevention in Reducing Interpersonal Violence, Cornwell / Chang -- 6 Trauma Scoring, VanDerHeyden / Cox -- 7 Trauma Systems & Trauma Triage Algorithms, Pepe / Marttos / Lynn -- II. Pre-hospital Trauma Care -- -- 8 Delivering Multidisciplinary Trauma Care: Current Challenges and Future Directions, Habib / Carrillo -- 9 Triage, Armstrong / Burris -- 10 Pre-Hospital Airway Management: Intubation, Devices, and Controversies, Coimbra / Davis / Hoyt -- 11 Pre-Hospital Fluid Resuscitation: What type, how much and controversies, Newell / Gracias / Rotondo -- 12 Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events, Dicker / Schecter -- 13 Blast Injuries, Pepe / King / Becker / Lynn -- 14 Pre-Hospital Care of Biological Agent Induced Injuries, Swan -- 15 Wound Ballistics: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know, Mayberry / Trunkey -- 16 Common Pre-Hospital Complications and Pitfalls in the Trauma Patient, Mitchell / Richart / Wilkins -- III. Initial Assessment and Resuscitation -- 17Airway Management: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know, From Intubation to Cricothyroidotomy, Gross / Jacobs -- 18 Resuscitation Fluids, Schreiber / Tieu / Kiraly / Englehart -- 19 Emergency Department Thoracotomy, Asensio / Petrone / et al. -- 20 The Role of Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma: Indications, Limitations, and Controversies, Dunham / McKenney / Shatz -- 21 The Use of Computed Tomography in Initial Trauma Evaluation, Sjoholm / Ross -- 22 Interventional Radiology: Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Maish / Fabian -- 23 Endpoints of Resuscitation, Englehart / Tieu / Schreiber -- IV. Head and Central Nervous System Injuries -- 24 Traumatic Brain Injury: Pathophysiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Pre-Hospital and Emergency Center Care, Valadka / Dannenbaum -- 25 Traumatic Brain Injury: Imaging, Operative and Nonoperative Care, and Complications, Valadka / Dannenbaum -- 26 Spine: Spinal Cord Injury, Blunt and Penetrating, Neurogenic and Spinal Shock, Tashjian / Gonzalez / Khoo -- V. Maxillofacial and Ocular Injuries -- -- 27 Maxillofacial Injuries, Granick -- 28 Trauma to the Orbit, Meallet -- VI. Neck Injuries -- -- 29 Penetrating Neck Injuries: Diagnosis and Selective Management, Weireter / Britt -- 30 Carotid, Vertebral Artery and Jugular Venous Injuries, Rowe / Petrone / Asensio -- 31 Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries, Cothren / Moore -- 32 Tracheal, Laryngeal, and Oropharyngeal Injuries, Fernandez / Norwood / Berne -- VII. Thoracic Injuries -- 33 Pertinent Surgical Anatomy of the Thorax and Mediastinum, Schipper / Sukumar / Mayberry -- 34 Thoracic Wall Injuries: Ribs, Sternal Scapular Raptures, Hemo- and Pneumothoraces, Salvetamal / Livingston -- 35 Diagnostic and Therapeutic roles of Bronchoscopy and Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy in the Management of Thoracic Trauma, Malhotra / Aboutanos -- 36 Pulmonary contusion and flail chest, Hauser / Livingston -- 37 Tracheal and Tracheobronchial Tree Injuries, Miller / Meredith -- 38 Operative Management of Pulmonary Injuries: Lung-Sparing and Formal Resections, Asensio / Garcia-Nunez / Petrone / et al. -- 39 Complications of Pulmonary and Pleural Injury, Karmy-Jones / Jurkovich -- 40 Cardiac Injuries, Asensio / Petrone / et al. -- 41 Thoracic Vascular Injury, Chu / Wall / Mattox -- 42 Treatment of Esophageal Injury, Christmas / Richardson -- 43 Diaphragmatic Injury, Lucas / Ledgerwood -- VIII. Abdominal Injuries -- 44 Surgical Anatomy of the Abdomen and Retroperitoneum, Bochicchio / Scalea -- 45 Dianostic Peritoneal Lavage and Laparoscopy in Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma, Smith / Aucar / Fry -- 46 Nonoperative Management of Blunt and Penetrating Abdominal Injuries, Martin / Rhee -- 47 Gastric Injuries, Diebel -- 48 Small Bowel Injuries, Maull -- 49 Duodenal Injuries, Jurkovich -- 50 Pancreatic Injuries, Magnotti / Croce -- 51 Liver Injury, Parikh / Pachter -- 52 Splenic Injuries, Wisner / Tse -- 53 Abdominal Vascular Injuries, Goaley / Feliciano -- 54 Colon and Rectal Injuries, Ciesla / Burch -- 55 Genitourinary Tract Injury, Best -- 56 Gynecologic Injuries, Tillou / Petrone -- 57 Multidisciplinary Management of Pelvic Fractures: Operative and Non-operative Hemostasis, Scalea -- IX. Special Issues in Major Torso Traum -- 58 Current Concepts in the Diagnosis and Management of Hemorrhagic Shock, Puyana / Tisherman / Peitzman -- 59 Exsanguination: Reliable Models to Indicate Damage Control, Mohr / Asensio -- 60 Surgical Techniques for Thoracic, Abdominal, Pelvic and Extremity Damage Control, Davis / Luchette -- 61 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, Damage Control and the Post-Traumatic Open Abdomen, Miller / Morris -- X. Peripheral Vascular Injury -- -- 62 Vascular Anatomy of the Extremities, Ginzburg / Rich -- 63 The Diagnosis of Vascular Trauma, Anderson / Blaisdell -- 64 Upper Extremity Vascular Trauma, Griffen / Frykberg -- 65 Lower Extremity Vascular Injuries: Femoral, Popiteal and Shank Vessel Injury, Sifri / Asensio -- 66 Compartment Syndromes, Granchi -- XI. Musculoskeletal and Peripheral CNS Injuries -- 67 Upper Extremity Fractures: Orthopedic Management, Gehrmann / Tan / Behrens (deceased) -- 68 Lower Extremity Fractures: Orthopedic Management, Trafton / Houin / Trunkey -- 69 Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Fractures, Tatsumi / Hart -- 70 Pelvic Fractures: Orthopedic Management, Humphrey / Ellis -- 71 Hand Fractures, Gopinathan / Ganchi / Granick -- 72 Scapulothoracic Dissociation and Degloving Injuries of the Extremities, Biffl / Born / Cioffi -- 73 Extremity Replantation: Indications and Timing, Datiashvili / Mordkovich -- 74 Techniques in the Management of Complex Musculoskeletal Injury: Roles of Muscle, Musculocutaneous, and Fasciocutaneous Flaps, Datiashvili / Trovato / Granick -- XII. Special Issues and Situations in Trauma Management -- 75 Airway Management in the Trauma Patient, Harrskog / Jarnberg -- 76 Pediatric Trauma, Tuggle / Scherer -- 77 Trauma in Pregnancy, Sisley / Chiu -- 78 Trauma in the Elderly, Braslow / Kauder / Schwab -- 79 Burns, Davis / Gamelli -- 80 Soft Tissue Infections, Henry -- 81 Common Errors in Trauma Care, Smith / Nold / Dort -- XIII. Critical Care I, the Management of Organ Failures: Techniques for Support -- 82 Cardiac Hemodynamics: The Pulmonary Artery Catheter and the Meaning of its Readings, Cohen / Mackersie -- 83 Oxygen Transport, Polanco / Fink / Puyana / Ochoa -- 84 Pharmacologic Support of Cardiac Failure, Mah / Kirton -- 85 The Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Dysrhythmias, Sperry / Minei -- 86 Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation, Eachempati / Shapiro / Barie -- 87 Advanced Techniques in Mechanical Ventilation, Melendez / Shapiro / Eachempati / Barie -- 88 The Management of Renal Failure: Renal Replacement Therapy and Dialysis, Gutmann / McFarren / Durham -- 89 Management of Coagulation Disorders in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Michetti / Fakhry -- 90 The Management of Endocrine Disorders in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Falvo / Horst -- 91 Transfusion: Management of Blood and Blood Products in Trauma, Napolitano -- XIV. Critical Care II, Special Issues and Treatments -- 92 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, King / Becker / Garcia / Asensio -- 93 Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS), Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS): Definition, Diagnosis, and Management, Watkins / Deitch -- 94 Sepsis, Septic Shock, and its Treatment, Ananthakrishnan / Deitch -- 95 The Immunology of Trauma, Todd / Cocanour -- 96 Nosocomial Pneumonia, Williams / Raghunathan / Spain / Brundage -- 97 Antibacterial Therapy: The Old, the New, and the Future, Barie / Eachempati / Shapiro -- 98 Fungal Infections and Antifungal Therapy in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Shapiro / Smith-Singares / Eachempati / Barie -- 99 Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Nutritional Support: Strategies for Enteral and Parenteral Therapies, Byers / Hameed / Kudsk -- 100 Thromboembolic Phenomena: Diagnosis and Treatment of Deep Venous Thrombosis: Drugs and Filters, Ivascu / Garcia -- 101 Hypothermia and Trauma, Gentilello / Reed -- 102 Surgical procedures in the SICU, Sifri / Mohr -- 103 Anesthesia in the SICU. Beyond the Airway: Neuromuscular Paralysis and Pain Management, Andreae / Berger / Verdiner / Delphin -- 104 Palliative Care in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit. Mosenthal -- 105 Death from Trauma: Management of Grief and Bereavement and the Role of the Surgeon, Murphy / Mosenthal -- 106 Trauma Rehabilitation, Dubov / Badellino / Pasquale -- 107 Trauma Outcomes, Rhodes / Tinkoff.

Hereb2ss 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.

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