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Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

  • 1st Edition - February 12, 2008
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Juan A. Asensio, Donald D. Trunkey
  • Language: English

Here’s 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… Read more

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Here’s 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.

Key features

  • 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.

Readership

General Surgeons, Critical Care Surgeons, Trauma Surgeons, Surgical Residents

Table of contents

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 12, 2008
  • Language: English

About the authors

JA

Juan A. Asensio

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Director, Trauma Center and Trauma Program, Department of Surgery, Creighton University School of Medicine, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

DT

Donald D. Trunkey

Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon

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