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"Remember, the critical questions in the field of Surgery never change, just the answers!" J. Bradley Aust M.D. 1926-2010
Acute Care Surgery and Trauma: Evidence-Based Practice discusses important surgical management approaches and clinical decision-making based on scientific evidence found in the published literature.Updated and fully revised, this new edition continues to support clinicians by providing the most up-to-date information and evidence on which to base their decisions across a wide range of topics in acute care surgery and trauma, thus optimizing the decision-making process for the care of individual patients.
What can be better for the busy clinician than having all the answers to complex questions extensively researched by experts in the field and readily available without requiring further intensive literature searches?
Featuring chapters written by specialists in acute care, trauma, and emergency surgery, with extensive references throughout. The text features tables summarizing key evidence and clinical recommendations for quick reference and easy interpretation. It provides an invaluable resource for all acute care surgery and trauma practitioners.
"… should be in the library of every medical school, every department of surgery, and every surgeon."
" A "must have" resource for every surgeon who manages trauma and acute care surgery patients…particularly useful for surgical residents and Surgical Critical Care and Trauma fellows, and attending surgeons."
Foreword by Basil A. Pruit
Author Biography
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. Patient Safety in the Care of Trauma Patients
J. Martin Perez, Kenneth Stahl, and Susan Brien
2. Injury Prevention Strategies
Linda C. Degutis
3. Trauma Systems: A Dynamic Public Health Strategy for Injury Control
Alex Lee, Alexandre Tran, and S. Morad Hameed
4. Military Injury Outcomes
Brian J. Eastridge and John K. Bini
5. Traumatized Airway
Edgar J. Pierre, Ethan Levitch, Jakob Oury, and David Holzer
6. Monitoring of the Trauma Patient
Abdul Q. Alarhayem, Zaid Alirhayim, and Natasha Keric
7. Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient
David R. King
8. Diagnosis of Injury in the Trauma Patient
Jennie S. Kim, Elizabeth Benjamin, Pedro G.R. Teixeira, and Kenji Inaba
9. Damage Control Laparotomy and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Christopher S. Thomas and Bruce A. Crookes
10. Coagulopathy in the Trauma Patient
Bardiya Zangbar and Peter M. Rhee
11. Traumatic Brain Injury
Morgan Crigger and Ara J. Feinstein
12. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries
Moti Cordoba and Yoram Klein
13. Facial Injuries
Yinglun Wu, Paolo Rigor, and Joseph H. Shin
14. Ocular Trauma
Erin Jennings and Yasha Modi
15. Neck Trauma
Katherine R. Iverson and Marc A. de Moya
16. Resuscitative Thoracotomy
Christopher R. Reed and Suresh K. Agarwal
17. Chest Wall Trauma
John K. Bini
18. Injury to the Thoracic Great Vessels
Mark Cockburn
19. Cardiac Trauma
Adam Lee Goldstein and Dror Soffer
20. Injury to the Esophagus, Trachea, and Bronchus
Deborah L. Mueller and Tabitha Threatt
21. Spleen Injury
Danby Kang and Andrew B. Peitzman
22. Injury to the Liver
Jose Lopez-Vera, Horeb Cano-Gonzalez, Connor Hogan, and Daniel J Bonville
23. Small Bowel and Colon Injuries
David H. Livingston
24. Diaphragmatic Injuries
Fahim Habib and Marc LaFonte
25. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injuries
Abigail Coots and Adrian W. Ong
26. Abdominal Vascular Trauma
Zoe Guzman, Harsimran Panesar, Gregory Simonian, and David O’Connor
27. Pregnant Trauma Patients
Tara DiNitto
28. Pelvic Fractures
Matthew O. Dolich and Panna A. Codner
29. Extremity Vascular Injury
Eliza Fox, Andrew Lawson, and Terence O’Keeffe
30. Management of Extremity Trauma and Mangled Extremities
Stephanie Lumpkin and Suresh K. Agarwal
31. Support of the Burned Patient
Jared S. Folwell, Garrett W. Britton, and Valerie G. Sams
32. Electrical, Cold, and Chemical Injuries
Steven Blau and Stephanie A. Savage
33. Wound Care Management
Aashish Rajesh, Mustafa Tamim Alam Khan, and Howard T. Wang
34. Pediatric Trauma
Benjamin Keller and Gerald Gollin
35. The Advanced-Age Trauma Patient
Juliet J. Ray, Carl I. Schulman, and Samuel Hawkins
36. Genitourinary Trauma
Megan Gilchrist and Joseph Love
37. Ileus and Small Bowel Obstruction
Vishal Kumar and John J. Hong
38. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Christopher S. Thomas and Bruce A. Crookes
39. Enterocutaneous Fistulas
Leah M. Pearl, Jordyn Baldwin, and Peter P. Lopez
40. Paraesophageal Hernia Repair
Sebastian R. Eid and George Mazpule
41. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Gregory J. Gallina, Alexander Fortgang, and Jessica Wassef
42. Appendicitis
Emily A. Kerby, Danielle Collins, and Peter P. Lopez
43. Diverticular Disease of the Colon
Akpofure Peter Ekeh and Mary Stuever
44. Large Bowel Obstruction
Josh Cassedy and John J. Hong
45. Acute and Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia
Abdul Q. Alarhayem, Sungho Lim, and Zaid Alirhayim
46. Hemorrhoids
Clarence E. Clark and Adatee Okonkwo
47. Anal Fissure, Fistula, and Abscess
Varun Krishnan
48. Acute Cholecystitis and Cholangitis
Brian I. Shaw and Suresh K. Agarwal
49. Acute Pancreatitis
Stephen W. Behrman
50. Pancreatic Pseudocysts
Zachary E. Stiles and Stephen W. Behrman
51. Diagnosis and Treatment of Variceal Hemorrhage Due to Cirrhosis
Zoe Guzman, Harsimran Panesar, Gregory Simonian, and David O’Connor
52. Acute Arterial Embolus
Boulos Toursarkissian
53. Ruptured Aortic Aneurysm
Boulos Toursarkissian
54. Venous Thromboembolism: Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
Steven Satterly, Suresh K. Agarwal, and George C. Velmahos
55. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
Mark D. Sawyer
56. Incarcerated Hernias
Rachel E. Beard and Steven D. Schwaitzberg
57. Surgical Endocrine Emergencies
Sara B. Edwards, Steven Brower, and Ki Won Kim
Index
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