The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care SurgeryNo member of the emergency room or trauma ward physician should be without this 4th edition of The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Designed to be used as a quick reference, this multidisciplinary pocket guide addresses all areas of trauma and emergency surgery with a list of key points at the end of each chapter. In addition to a new section on the intensive care unit and an extended section on surgical emergencies, this manual also covers GI hemorrhage, hernias, bowel obstruction, pancreatitis, biliary tract disease, and other surgical challenges faced by trauma and emergency surgery personnel. Organized in a chronological fashion following the usual events and phases of care after injury or acute surgical illness, this user-friendly manual is one guide every trauma surgeon, surgical resident, surgical critical care specialist, emergency medicine physician, and emergency or trauma nurse, will want to keep close by. |
Contents
Introduction to Trauma Care | 1 |
Airway Management and Anesthesia | 22 |
Initial Assessment and Resuscitation | 35 |
Damage Control Surgery | 51 |
Nutritional Intervention | 73 |
Team Activation and Organization | 101 |
InterventionalRadiology | 121 |
Infections Antibiotic Prevention and Antibiotic Management | 138 |
BurnsInhalationInjury | 443 |
Priorities in the ICU Care of the Adult Trauma Patient | 456 |
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome | 489 |
Acute Kidney Injury | 508 |
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome Open Abdomen | 529 |
Support of the Organ Donor | 545 |
Accidental and Therapeutic Hypothermia Cold Injury | 554 |
Preparation Initial Resuscitation and Management of the Patient | 569 |
Trauma Pain Management | 162 |
Operating Room Practice | 179 |
Injury Prevention | 195 |
21A Trauma in Children | 213 |
21B Trauma in Pregnant Women | 228 |
Mechanism of Injury | 241 |
MaxillofacialInjury | 264 |
Spinal Cord and Spinal Column | 287 |
Ophthalmic Injuries | 308 |
Neck Trauma | 315 |
Abdominal Trauma | 357 |
Genitourinary Injuries | 395 |
Peripheral Vascular Injuries | 427 |
Bowel Obstruction | 583 |
Acute Pancreatitis | 606 |
Appendicitis | 624 |
Inflammatory Diseases of the Intestines | 643 |
Acute Anorectal Pain | 657 |
Vascular Emergencies | 672 |
Hernias | 684 |
Laparoscopic Treatment of the Acute Abdomen | 708 |
Scoring for Injury and Emergency Surgery | 733 |
Frequently Used Forms | 756 |
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