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Trauma, Critical Care and Surgical Emergencies
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eBook - PDF
Trauma, Critical Care and Surgical Emergencies
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary discussion about the three key areas of acute care surgery; trauma, surgical critical care, and surgical emergencies. The 65 chapters are arranged by organ, anatomical site and injury type, and each includes a case study with evidence-based analysis of diagnosis, management, and outcomes. Unless s
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Evidence-based Medicine in Emergency Surgical Care
- Chapter 1. Fluid resuscitation for the trauma patient
- Chapter 2. Complex Airway
- Chapter 3. Major blunt head injury
- Chapter 4. Minor blunt head injury in the intoxicated patient
- Chapter 5. Stab wound to the carotid artery
- Chapter 6. Cervical Spine Fracture with Quadriplegia
- Chapter 7. Blunt thoracic aortic injury
- Chapter 8. Transmediastinal penetrating trauma
- Chapter 9. Diaphragmatic injury following penetrating trauma
- Chapter 10. Blunt liver injury
- Chapter 11. Blunt splenic injury
- Chapter 12. Penetrating renal injuries
- Chapter 13. Blunt pancreaticoduadenal injury
- Chapter 14. Penetrating colon injury
- Chapter 15. Rectal injury with pelvic fracture
- Chapter 16. Abdominal aortic injury
- Chapter 17. Blunt pelvic fracture with hemoperitoneum
- Chapter 18. The mangled extremity
- Chapter 19. Damage Control Laparotomy
- Chapter 20. The pulseless trauma patient
- Chapter 21. Related blast injury
- Chapter 22. Pediatric blunt trauma
- Chapter 23. Blunt trauma in pregnancy
- Chapter 24. Acute respiratory failure
- Chapter 25. Ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Chapter 26. Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Chapter 27. Weaning and liberation from mechanical ventilation
- Chapter 28. Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
- Chapter 29. Shock
- Chapter 30. Perioperative management of a patient undergoing noncardiac surgery
- Chapter 31. Postoperative cardiac arrythmias
- Chapter 32. Oliguria
- Chapter 33. Hyponatremia in the surgical intensive care unit
- Chapter 34. Glycemic control in the critically ill surgical patient
- Chapter 35. Postoperative anemia: Risks, benefits, and triggers for blood transfusion
- Chapter 36. Nutritional considerations in the surgical intensive care unit
- Chapter 37. Pain, agitation, and delirium
- Chapter 38. Care of the potential organ donor
- Chapter 39. End of life care in the ICU: Ethical considerations a family-centered, multidisciplinary approach
- Chapter 40. Acute trauma-related coagulopathy
- Chapter 41. Adrenal insufficiency in critical illness
- Chapter 42. Sepsis
- Chapter 43. Catheter-related infections
- Chapter 44. Special Populations in Trauma
- Chapter 45. Ultrasound in the intensive care unit
- Chapter 46. Appendicitis
- Chapter 47. Bariatric Surgery Complications
- Chapter 48. Diverticulitis
- Chapter 49. Perforated peptic ulcers
- Chapter 50. Acute mesenteric ischemia
- Chapter 51. Acute cholecystitis
- Chapter 52. Acute pancreatitis
- Chapter 53. Incarcerated femoral and inguinal hernias
- Chapter 54. Esophageal perforation
- Chapter 55. Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding
- Chapter 56. Acute lower GI hemorrhage
- Chapter 57. Perirectal and perineal sepsis
- Chapter 58. Necrotizing soft tissue infections
- Chapter 59. Acute intestinal obstruction
- Chapter 60. Anastomotic leak and postoperative abscess
- Chapter 61. Anesthesia for bedside surgical procedures
- Chapter 62. Acute care surgery in immunocompromised patients
- Chapter 63. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: A primer for the acute care surgeon
- Chapter 64. Trauma and surgical critical care system issues
- Index
- Back Cover