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Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

  • 3rd Edition - March 18, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Juan A. Asensio, Wayne J. Meredith
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in General Surgery**Drawing on the experience and knowledge of master world-renowned trauma surge… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in General Surgery**

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

Trauma surgeons, general surgeons, critical care surgeons – all in practice and in training

Table of contents

Part 1 Trauma Systems

1 Development of Trauma Systems

2 Trauma Center Organization and Verification for Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

3 Injury Severity Scoring: Its Definition and Practical Application

4 Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs in Trauma

5 Injury Prevention: An Evidence-Based Public Health Approach

6 Lessons Learned in Military Trauma in Colombia

7 Trauma Scoring

8 Simulation-Based Training for Combat Surgery

Part 2 Prehospital Trauma Care

9 Prehospital Trauma Care: Influence of Emergency Medical Services on Trauma Center Patient Outcomes

10 Field Triage in the Military Arena

11 Trauma Systems on the Battlefield

12 Field Triage in the Civilian Arena

13 En Route Care

14 Prehospital Airway Management: Intubation, Devices, and Controversies

15 Prehospital Fluid Resuscitation: What Type, How Much, and Controversies

16 Mass Casualty Events: The Role of Hospitals and Trauma Systems

17 Injuries From Explosives

18 Prehospital Care of Biologic Agent–Induced Injuries

19 Wound Ballistics: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know

20 Common Prehospital Complications and Pitfalls in the Trauma Patient

Part 3 Initial Assessment and Resuscitation

21 Airway Management: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know, From Intubation to Cricothyroidotomy

22 Resuscitation Fluids

23 REBOA: Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta

24 Resuscitative Thoracotomy

25 Focused Assessment with Sonography for the Trauma Patient Role of Radiology in Initial Trauma Evaluation

26 Interventional Radiology: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Roles

27 Interventional Radiology Management During Intermediate and Long-Term Phases of Trauma Care

28 Endpoints of Resuscitation 148

Part 4 Head and Central Nervous System Injuries

29 Traumatic Brain Injury: Pathophysiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Prehospital and Emergency Center Care

30 Nonoperative Care, and Complications

31 Spinal Cord Injury, Blunt and Penetrating, Neurogenic and Spinal Shock

Part 5 Maxillofacial and Ocular Injuries

32 Maxillofacial Trauma

33 Trauma to the Eye and Orbit

Part 6 Neck Injuries

34 Penetrating Neck Injuries

35 Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries

36 Tracheal, Laryngeal, and Oropharyngeal Injuries

Part 7 Thoracic Injuries

37 Pertinent Surgical Anatomy of the Thorax and Mediastinum

38 Thoracic Wall Injuries: Ribs, Sternal and Scapular Fractures, and Hemothoraces and Pneumothoraces

39 Diagnostic and Therapeutic Roles of Bronchoscopy and Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy in the Management of Thoracic Trauma

40 Pulmonary Contusion and Flail Chest

41 Operative Treatment of Chest Wall Injury

42 Tracheal and Tracheobronchial Tree Injuries

43 Operative Management of Pulmonary Injuries: Lung-Sparing and Formal Resections

44 Complications of Pulmonary and Pleural Injury

45 Cardiac Injuries

46 Thoracic Vascular Injury

47 Thoracic Aortic Injury

48 Esophageal Injuries: Principles of Management

Part 8 Abdominal Injuries

49 Diaphragmatic Injury

50 Surgical Anatomy of the Abdomen and Retroperitoneum

51 Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage and Laparoscopy in the Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma

52 Nonoperative Management of Blunt and Penetrating Abdominal Injuries

53 Gastric Injuries

54 Small Bowel Injury

55 Duodenal Injuries

56 Pancreatic Injuries and Pancreaticoduodenectomy

57 Liver Injury

58 Splenic Injuries

59 Abdominal Vascular Injury

60 Colon and Rectal Injuries

61 Genitourinary Tract Injuries

62 Gynecologic Injuries: Trauma to Uterus, Ovaries, and Female Genitalia

Part 9 Special Issues in Major Torso Trauma

63 Multidisciplinary Management of Pelvic Fractures: Operative and Nonoperative Management

64 Current Concepts in the Diagnosis and Management of Hemorrhagic Shock

65 Exsanguination: Reliable Models to Indicate Damage Control

66 Damage Control Resuscitation: An Evidence-Based Report

67 Newer Strategies from the Use of Blood and Blood Products: Lessons Learned from Recent Wars

68 Surgical Techniques for Damage Control Operations for Abdominal, Thoracic, Pelvic, and Extremity Trauma

69 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, Damage Control, and the Open Abdomen

70 Torso Trauma on the Modern Battlefield

Part 10 Peripheral Vascular Injury

71 Vascular Anatomy of the Extremities

72 Diagnosis of Vascular Trauma

73 Penetrating Carotid Artery Injuries

74 Penetrating Extracranial Vertebral Artery Injuries

75 Subclavian Vessel Injuries: Difficult Anatomy and Difficult Territory

76 Operative Exposure and Management of Axillary Vessel Injuries

77 Brachial Vessel Injuries: High Morbidity and Low Mortality Injuries

78 Iliac Vessel Injuries: Difficult Injuries and Difficult Management Problems

79 Femoral Vessel Injuries: High Mortality and Low Morbidity Injuries

80 Popliteal Vessel Injuries: Complex Anatomy and High Amputation Rates

81 Shank Vessel Injuries: The Forgotten Vascular Injuries

82 Penetrating Arteriovenous Fistulas: Uncommon and Challenging Entities

83 Temporary Vascular Shunts

Part 11 Musculoskeletal and Peripheral Central Nervous System Injuries

84 Upper Extremity Fractures: Orthopedic Management

85 Lower Extremity and Degloving Injury

86 Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar Spine Fractures

87 Pelvic Fractures

88 Wrist and Hand Fractures: Orthopaedic Management Scapulothoracic Dissociation and Degloving Injuries of the Extremities

89 Extremity Replantation: Indications and Timing

Part 12 Special Issues and Situations in Trauma Management

90 Flap Reconstruction in the Management of Complex Musculoskeletal Injuries

91 What Every Surgeon Should Know About the Traumatic Airway

92 Pediatric Trauma

93 Trauma in Pregnancy

94 Trauma in Our “Elders”

95 Burns

96 Soft Tissue Infections

97 Common Errors in Trauma Care

98 Combat Trauma Care: Lessons Learned From Recent Combat Operations

99 Danger Associated Molecular Patterns, Complements, and Other Novel Biomarkers in Trauma Patient Management

100 Microbiome and Trauma

101 Genomics of Profound Shock and Trauma

Part 13 Critical Care I: Management of Organ Failures and Techniques for Support

102 Cardiac Hemodynamics: Pulmonary Artery Catheter and the Meaning of Its Readings

103 Oxygen Transport

104 Pharmacologic Support of Cardiac Failure

105 Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Dysrhythmias

106 Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation

107 Advanced Techniques in Mechanical Ventilation

108 Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Replacement Therapy in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

109 Management of Coagulation Disorders in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

110 Management of Endocrine Disorders in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

111 Transfusion: Management of Blood and Blood Products in Trauma

Part 14 Critical Care II: Special Issues and Treatments

112 Thromboelastography: Techniques and Uses

113 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

114 The Evolving Epidemiology of Multiple Organ Failure

115 Sepsis, Septic Shock, and Its Treatment

116 The Immunology of Trauma

117 Overview of Infectious Diseases in Trauma Patients

118 Nosocomial Pneumonia

119 Antibiotic Use in the Intensive Care Unit: The Old and the New

120 Fungal Colonization and Infection During Critical Illness

121 Preoperative and Postoperative Nutritional Support: Strategies for Enteral and Parenteral Therapies

122 Venous Thromboembolic Events: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Filters as Adjuncts

123 Hypothermia and Trauma

124 Surgical Procedures in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

125 Anesthesia in the Critical Care Unit and Pain Management

126 Anesthesia Adjuncts in the Management of Pain in Trauma Patients: New Blocks and Other Techniques to Combat the Opioid Epidemic

127 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Acute Cardiopulmonary Failure

Part 15 Rehabilitation and Quality of Life After Trauma and Other Issues

128 Surgery During Global Pandemics: Focus on Prioritization and Resource Allocation

129 Diagnostic Management of Brain Death in the Intensive Care Unit and Organ Donation

130 Palliative Care in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit

131 Trauma rehabilitation

132 Trauma outcomes

Review quotes

"This book is a comprehensive single volume devoted to acute therapy for injured and surgical patients. This third edition is an update to the previous version, which was published in 2016." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, David James Dries, MSE, MD (Regions Hospital) Doody's Score: 4 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 28, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editor

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

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