Acute Care Surgery: A Guide for General Surgeons

Acute Care Surgery: A Guide for General Surgeons by Vicente H. Gracias, Mark G. McKenney, Patrick M. Reilly & George Velmahos delivers a definitive overview of how to evaluate, stabilize, and perform surgeries for multiple emergent scenarios. Written by prominent surgeon educators, it takes you step-by-step from triage through the operation and concisely explains how to handle trauma, critical care, and emergency surgery situations. No other resource delivers such quick access to essential information prior to the procedure, helping to ensure optimal outcomes for the critically ill surgical patient.

Acute Care Surgery is written specifically to help you prepare during the narrow window of time between resuscitating the patient in the emergency room and the patient's admission to the operating room.


Book features:

• A multidisciplinary surgical companion covering the three specialties within acute care surgery--emergency surgery, surgical critical care, and trauma.
  
• A streamlined presentation that facilitates research and offers point-of-care insights that enhance surgical outcomes.
  
• Clinical chapter orientation, with headers that logically segment chapter material between preoperative, operative, and postoperative management.
  
• Management algorithms in all clinical chapters highlight and clarify important surgical procedures.
  
• Expert authorship from leaders in their respective disciplines provide the most clinically relevant, up-to-date approaches to acute care surgical problems.
  

About the Author

• Vicente H. Gracias, MD, is associate professor of surgery, chief of surgical critical care, and medical director of critical care at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
  
• Mark G. McKenney, MD, is professor of surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; chief of surgery and chief of trauma and surgical critical care at the University of Miami Hospital; and co-director of the Ryder Trauma Center at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
  
• Patrick M. Reilly, MD, is associate professor of surgery, trauma, and surgical critical care at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
  
• George C. Velmahos, MD, PhD, MSEd, is John F. Burke Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and chief of trauma, emergency surgery, and surgical critical care at Massachusetts General Hospital.
  

Contents
PART I: EMERGENCY SURGERY

• 1. The Interface with Emergency Medicine,
• 2. Patient Safety
• 3. Emergency Management of the Oropharynx and Neck
• 4. Emergency Chest Surgery
• 5. Emergency Surgery for Stomach and Duodenum Injuries
• 6. Nontraumatic Emergency Surgery of the Small Intestine
• 7. The Colon
• 8. The Rectum and Anus
• 9. The Liver
• 10.Biliary Surgery
• 11. Pancreatic Emergency: Acute Pancreatitis
• 12. The Spleen
• 13. The Acute Care Surgeon's Approach to Hernia Repair
• 14. Soft Tissue Infections
• 15. Traumatic Aortic Rupture
• 16. Arterial and Venous Occlusion
• 17. The Extremities
• 18. Pediatric Surgery
• 19. Endpoints of Resuscitation: What Have We Learned? 

Part II: CRITICAL CARE

• 20. Postoperative Pitfalls
• 21. General Evaluation and Resuscitation
• 22. Nutrition and Venous Access
• 23. Antibiotic Selection
• 24. Prophylaxis
• 25. Analgesia and Sedation
• 26. Ventilator Management

PART III: TRAUMA

• 27. Trauma to the Head, Face, and Neck
• 28. Thoracic Trauma
• 29. The Abdomen
• 30. The Pelvis
• 31. Spinal Cord Injury
• 32. The Initial Care of the Burn Patient

Index 



Book Details 
 

• Hardcover: 464 pages
  
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (September 22, 2008)
  
• Language: English
  
• ISBN-10: 0071472908
  
• ISBN-13: 9780071472906
  
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
  

List Price: $99.00