Table of Contents

SECTION I: TRAUMA OVERVIEW
1. Kinematics
2. Epidemiology
3. Injury Prevention
4. Trauma Systems, Triage, and Transport
5. Injury Severity Scoring and Outcomes Research
6. Acute Care Surgery
SECTION II: GENERALIZED APPROCHES TO TRAUMA PATIENT
7. Prehospital Care
8. Disaster and Mass Casualty
9. Rural Trauma
10. Initial Assessment and Management
11. Airway Management
12. Management of Shock
13. Postinjury Hemotherapy and Hemostasis
14. Emergency Department Thoracotomy
15. Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology
16. Surgeon-Performed Ultrasound in Acute Care Surgery
17. Principles of Anesthesia and Pain Management
18. Infections
SECTION III: MANAGEMENT OF SPECIFIC INJURIES
19. Injury to the Brain
20. Eye
21. Face
22. Neck
23. Vetebrae & Spinal Cord
24. Trauma Thoracotomy: Principles and Techniques
25. Lung, Trachea, & Esophagus
26. Heart and Thoracic Vascular Injuries
27. Trauma Laparotomy: Principles and Techniques
28. Diaphragm
29. Liver and Biliary Tract
30. Injury to the Spleen
31. Stomach and Small Bowel
32. Duodenum & Pancreas
33. Colon and Rectal Trauma
34. Abdominal Vascular Injury
35. Pelvis
36. Genitourinary Trauma
37. Trauma in Pregnancy
38. Trauma Damage Control
39. Upper Extremity
40. Lower Extremity
41. Peripheral Vascular Injury
SECTION IV: SPECIFIC CHALLENGES IN TRAUMA
42. Alcohol and Drugs
43. The Pediatric Patient
44. The Geriatric Patient
45. Ethics of Acute Care Surgery
46. Social Violence
47. Wounds, Bites, and Stings
48. Burns & Radiation
49. Temperature Related Syndromes: Hyperthermia, Hypothermia and Frostbite
50. Organ Procurement for Transplantation
51. Rehabilitation
52. Modern Combat Casualty Care
53. Genomics & Acute Care Surgery
54. Trauma, Medicine, and the Law
SECTION V: MANAGEMENT OF COMPLIATIONS AFTER TRAUMA
55. Principles of Critical Care
56. Cardiovascular Failure
57. Respiratory Insufficiency
58. Gastrointestinal Failure
59. Renal Failure
60. Nutritional Support and Electrolyte Management
61. Multiple Organ Failure
Atlas
Index

About the Author

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide