Acute Care Surgery and Trauma

Foreword by Basil A. Pruit. Author Biography. List of Contributors. Introduction. Patient Safety in the Care of Trauma Patients. Injury Prevention Strategies. Trauma Systems: A Dynamic Public Health Strategy for Injury Control. Military Injury Outcomes. Traumatized Airway. Monitoring of the Trauma Patient. Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient. Diagnosis of Injury in the Trauma Patient. Damage Control Laparotomy and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. Coagulopathy in the Trauma Patient. Traumatic Brain Injury. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries. Facial Injuries. Ocular Trauma. Neck Trauma. Resuscitative Thoracotomy. Chest Wall Trauma. Injury to the Thoracic Great Vessels. Cardiac Trauma. Injury to the Esophagus, Trachea, and Bronchus. Spleen Injury. Injury to the Liver. Small Bowel and Colon Injuries. Diaphragmatic Injuries. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injuries. Abdominal Vascular Trauma. Pregnant Trauma Patients. Pelvic Fractures. Extremity Vascular Injury. Management of Extremity Trauma and Mangled Extremities. Support of the Burned Patient. Electrical, Cold, and Chemical Injuries. Wound Care Management. Pediatric Trauma. The Advanced-Age Trauma Patient. Genitourinary Trauma. Ileus and Small Bowel Obstruction. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Enterocutaneous Fistulas. Paraesophageal Hernia Repair. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Appendicitis. Diverticular Disease of the Colon. Large Bowel Obstruction. Acute and Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia. Hemorrhoids. Anal Fissure, Fistula, and Abscess. Acute Cholecystitis and Cholangitis. Acute Pancreatitis. Pancreatic Pseudocysts. Diagnosis and Treatment of Variceal Hemorrhage Due to Cirrhosis. Acute Arterial Embolus. Ruptured Aortic Aneurysm. Venous Thromboembolism: Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections. Incarcerated Hernias. Surgical Endocrine Emergencies. Index.