Cohn: Acute Care Surgery and Trauma: Evidence-Based Practice






Acute Care Surgery and Trauma - Evidence-Based Practice by Stephen M. Cohn focuses on important surgical management issues where one or more problems are addressed using scientific evidence from the published literature. This foreword describes the criteria used for weighing the evidence provided by published research studies. Why evidencebased medicine? The primary use of evidence-based medicine (EBM) is to help make informed decisions by combining individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence. This approach optimizes decision making for the care of individual patients.

Using evidence-based studies, this textbook focuses on the critical management questions of the day. The book uses publications from the past decade and predominantly cites those published manuscripts that provide Level I and II evidence using the Oxford scale.

Each chapter is organized around the several key questions on the particular topic. These questions have been judged by the authors as essential in delineating the current status of evidence-based material related to the specific subject. A summary of these questions and answers along with the strength of the recommendations appear in each chapter. In many instances, there are little high-quality data found on these various topics. The evidence-based surgery reviews are submitted to stimulate the development of future clinical trials and provide credible answers to age-old surgical management questions.


Contents
Section I – Trauma
  • 1. Evidence for Injury Prevention Strategies: From Private Practice to Public Policy
  • 2. Trauma Systems
  • 3. Evidence-Based Review of Trauma Outcomes
  • 4. Evidence-Based Surgery: Military Injury Outcomes
  • 5. Evidence-Based Surgery: Traumatized Airway
  • 6. Monitoring of the Trauma Patient
  • 7. Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient
  • 8. Diagnosis of Injury in the Trauma Patient
  • 9. An Evidence-Based Approach to Damage Control Laparotomy for Trauma
  • 10. Evidence-Based Surgery: Coagulopathy in the Trauma Patient
  • 11. Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 12. Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries
  • 13. Facial Injuries
  • 14. Ocular Trauma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Evaluation and Management
  • 15. Neck Trauma
  • 16. Emergency Thoracotomy
  • 17. Trauma to the Chest Wall
  • 18. Evidence-Based Surgery: Injury to the Thoracic Great Vessels
  • 19. Evidence-Based Surgery: Cardiac Trauma
  • 20. Injury to the Esophagus, Trachea, and Bronchus
  • 21. An Evidence-Based Approach to Spleen Trauma: Management and Outcomes
  • 22. Injury to the Liver
  • 23. Small Bowel and Colon Injuries
  • 24. Diaphragmatic Injuries
  • 25. Pancreatic and Duodenal Trauma
  • 26. Abdominal Vascular Trauma
  • 27. An Evidence-Based Approach to Pregnant Trauma Patients
  • 28. Pelvic Fractures
  • 29. An Evidence-Based Approach to Extremity Vascular Trauma
  • 30. Surgery of Upper Extremity
  • 31. Lower Extremity Injury
  • 32. Limb Salvage for the Mangled Extremity
  • 33. Critical Questions in Support of the Burned Patient
  • 34. Burn Wound Management
  • 35. Inhalation Injury
  • 36. Electrical, Cold, and Chemical Injuries
  • 37. Evidence-Based Wound Care Management
  • 38. Viperidae Snakebite Envenomation
  • 39. Evidence-Based Surgery: War Wounds
  • 40. Evidence-Based Surgery: Pediatric Trauma
  • 41. An Evidence-Based Approach to Geriatric Trauma
  • 42. Rural Trauma
  • 43. Reducing Patient Errors in Trauma Care
Section II – Emergency General Surgery
  • 44. Small Bowel Surgery
  • 45. An Evidence-Based Approach to Upper GI Bleed Management
  • 46. Peptic Ulcer Disease
  • 47. Enterocutaneous Fistula
  • 48. Paraesophageal Hernia Repair
  • 49. Appendicitis
  • 50. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
  • 51. Diverticular Disease of the Colon
  • 52. Large Bowel Obstruction
  • 53. Acute and Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia
  • 54. Ogilvie’s Syndrome and Colonic Volvulus
  • 55. Hemorrhoids
  • 56. Anal Fissure, Fistula, and Abscess
  • 57. Evidence-Based Surgery: Pilonidal Disease
  • 58. Rectal Prolapse: Evidence-Based Outcomes
  • 59. Evidence-Based Practice: Acute Cholecystitis
  • 60. Acute Cholangitis
  • 61. Acute Pancreatitis
  • 62. Pancreatic Pseudo-cysts
  • 63. Liver Abscess
  • 64. Diagnosis and Treatment of Variceal Hemorrhage due to Cirrhosis
  • 65. Gangrene of the Foot
  • 66. Acute Arterial Embolus
  • 67. Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
  • 68. Acute Aortic Dissection
  • 69. Deep Venous Thrombosis
  • 70. Pulmonary Embolism
  • 71. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
  • 72. Incarcerated Hernias
  • 73. Surgical Endocrine Emergencies
Section III – Surgical Critical Care Problems
  • 74. Evidence-Based Surgery: Bacteremia
  • 75. Prevention of Central Venous Catheter Infections
  • 76. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
  • 77. Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock
  • 78. Perioperative Arrhythmias
  • 79. Feeds and Feeding Surgical Patients
  • 80. Evidence-Based Surgery: Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
  • 81. Acute Renal Failure
  • 82. Hyperglycemia
  • 83. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
  • 84. Agitation and Delirium in the ICU
  • 85. Malignant Hypertension: An Evidence-based Surgery Review
Appendix
Index  


Product Details 
 
  • Hardcover: 634 pages
  • Publisher: Informa Healthcare; 1 edition (September 2, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1420075136
  • ISBN-13: 978-1420075137 

    List Price: $300.00 
     
     

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