Produced by a world-renowned team of trauma specialists, this source reviews initial management considerations beginning in the pre-hospital phase, continues through the primary and secondary surveys of the hospital-based evaluation process, and proceeds to the perioperative management of trauma, burns, and associated conditions. This reference pro

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Front cover
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Contributors
SECTION A: Preparation and Prehospital Care
Chapter 1. History of Trauma
Chapter 2. Mechanisms and Epidemiology of Trauma
Chapter 3. Prehospital Care and Trauma Systems
Chapter 4. Trauma Scoring and Triage
Chapter 5. Resuscitation Suite and Operating Room Readiness
Chapter 6. Truama Team Performance
Chapter 7. Transport of the Trauma Patient
SECTION B: Resuscitation Suite/Trauma ED Management
Chapter 8. Primary Survey: Initial Resuscitation Priorities
Chapter 9. Definitive Airway Management
Chapter 10. Intravenous Access
Chapter 11. Fluid Resuscitation Strategy
Chapter 12. Initial Circulation Assessment and Shock Prevention
Chapter 13. Resuscitative Thoracotomy
Chapter 14. Secondary Survey: Comprehensive Trauma Evaluation
Chapter 15. Cervical Spine: Initial Evaluation and Management
Chapter 16. Diagnosis Imaging for Trauma
SECTION C: Anestetic Management and Damage Control for Trauma
Chapter 17. Preoperative Evaluation, Preparation, and Monitoring
Chapter 18. Ongoing Resuscitation Endpoints and Strategies
Chapter 19. General Anesthesia for Trauma
Chapter 20. Regional Anesthesia for Trauma
Chapter 21. Damage Control
SECTION D: Anesthetic and Surgical Considerations for Specific Injuries
Chapter 22. Maxillogacial Injuries
Chapter 23. Traumatic Brain Injury
Chapter 24. Penetrating Neck Trauma
Chapter 25. Cardiothoracic Trauma
Chapter 26. Cervical and Thoracic Vertebral Spine Trauma
Chpater 27. Abdominal Trauma
Chapter 28. Pelvic Trauma
Chapter 29. Extremity Trauma
SECTION E: Special Conditions Associated with Trauma
Chapter 30. Drug and Alcohol Intoxication in Trauma
Chapter 31. Poisoning and Toxic Exposure
Chapter 32. Bites, Stings, and Envenomations
Chapter 33. Allergy and Anaphylaxis in Trauma
Chapter 34. Burn Injuries
Chapter 35. Near-Drowning
Chapter 36. Pediatric Trauma
Chapter 37. Geriatric Trauma
Chapter 38. Obstetric Trauma
Chapter 39. Weapons of Mass Destruction: Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Warfare Agents
Chapter 40. Hypothermia and Heat-Related Injuries
Chapter 41. Pitfalls in the Management of the Trauma Patient
Chapter 42. Tertiary Survey of the Trauma Patient
Index
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