The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Description:

Covering all areas of trauma, critical care, and emergency surgery, The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 5th Edition, brings you fully up to date with recent changes in the field. This pocket manual is an indispensable resource for everyone on the trauma/acute care team, with practical, easy-to-read coverage of the wide range of patients seen daily with urgent presentation – whether from injury, emergency general surgical disease, or a major complication. This user-friendly manual is one that every trauma surgeon, surgical resident, surgical critical care specialist, emergency medicine physician, and emergency or trauma nurse will want to keep close at hand for daily use.

Table of Contents:

Section I General

1 Acute Care Surgery: Key Concepts

2 Introduction to Trauma Care

3 Physiologic Response to Injury

4 Airway Management and Anesthesia

5 Initial Assessment and Resuscitation

6 Shock

7 Damage Control Surgery

8 Blood and Transfusion

9 Nutrition

10 Complications of Wound Healing

11 Field Response, Triage, and Prehospital Management

12 Retrieval and Interhospital Transport of Trauma Patients

13 Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents

14 Trauma Team Activation and Response

15 Imaging of Trauma Patients

16 Endovascular Techniques, Balloons, and Angioembolization

17 Sepsis

18 Infections, Antibiotic Utilization, and Antibiotic Management

19 Trauma Pain Management

20 Venous Thromboembolism

21 Operating Room Practice, Operative Approaches

22 Trauma System Development

23 Injury Prevention

24 Rehabilitation Concerns in the Trauma Setting

25 Palliative Care

26 Trauma in Children

27 Care of the Pregnant Trauma Patient

28 Trauma in Older Adults

Section II Trauma

29 Introduction to Trauma: Mechanism of Injury

30 Traumatic Brain Injury

31 Maxillofacial Injury

32 Spinal Cord and Spinal Column

33 Ophthalmic Injury

34 Neck Injury

35 Thoracic Injury

36 Thoracic Injury: Cardiac and Major Vascular Injury

37 Abdominal Trauma

38 Abdominal Vascular Injury

39 Genitourinary Injuries

40 Orthopedic Trauma, Fractures, and Dislocations

41 Peripheral Vascular Injuries

42 Burns and Inhalation Injury

Section III The Intensive Care Unit

43 Priorities in the ICU: Care of the Adult Trauma Patient

44 Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

45 Cardiovascular Disease and Monitoring

46 Acute Kidney Injury

47 Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation

48 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, Open Abdomen, Enteroatmospheric Fistula

49 Liver Failure

50 Support of the Organ Donor

51 Accidental and Therapeutic Hypothermia, Cold Injury, and Drowning

Section IV Emergency Surgery

52 Introduction to Emergency General Surgery: Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen

53 Preparation, Initial Resuscitation, and Management of the Patient for the Emergency Operation

54 Acute Abdomen in ICU Patients

55 Bowel Obstruction

56 Gastrointestinal Bleeding

57 Acute Pancreatitis

58 Biliary Tract Disease

59 Appendicitis

60 Esophagus, Stomach, and Duodenum

61 Inflammatory Diseases of the Intestines

62 Acute Anorectal Pain

63 Soft Tissue Infection

64 Vascular Emergencies

65 Hernias

66 Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies

67 Laparoscopic Treatment of the Acute Abdomen (Emergency and Trauma)

68 Miscellaneous Procedures

69 Scoring for Injury and Emergency General Surgery

Section V Surgical Rescue, Complications

70 Rescue in Acute Care Surgery

71 Complications of Tracheostomy and Intubation

72 Complications of PEG Tubes, Jejunostomy Tubes, and EGD

73 Complications of Gastrointestinal Surgery

74 Complications of Bariatric Surgery

75 Retained Hemothorax, Pleural Effusion, and Empyema

Appendix A: AAST Organ Injury Scales

Appendix B: AAST Emergency General Surgery Scores

Index