Current Therapy of Trauma has become the leading text for trauma management. Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, a new volume in the Current Therapy series, builds on the infrastructure and credibility of the four previous volumes of Current Therapy of Trauma, and it includes critical care and aspects of rehabilitation as well. With these additions, Dr. Juan A. Asensio and Dr. Donald D. Trunkey now cover the full continuum of care—prevention, injury, prehospital treatment, triage, diagnosis, injury management, and postoperative care. The social consequences of trauma have been emphasized since the first edition of Current Therapy of Trauma. Unfortunately, traumatic injury is still the leading cause of lost years of productive life, surpassing cardiac disease,
cancer, and stroke. However, no one young or old is immune to this
disease. The ubiquitous, dramatic, and immediate nature of this medical malady means that this book will be valuable for many health care professionals, including emergency physicians, intensivists, residents, medical students, nurses, fire–rescue personnel—and not just surgeons.
Leading specialists who have busy clinical practices are the authors of the chapters, and they have contributed to this book because of its stature in the field of trauma care. Their emphasis has been on a practical approach to clinical problems following the principles of evidence-based medicine. Controversies are addressed, but the focus is on preferred treatment approaches. The evolving field of nonoperative management of blunt and penetrating trauma is critically reviewed and updated. The section on critical care is valuable and comprehensive in scope, but not overwhelming. There are even chapters on special issues, including trauma at the extremes of life and in pregnancy, palliative care in the intensive care unit, and management of grief.
Trauma and critical care have undergone rapid growth and maturation. The lessons taught in this book can be applied by everyone who treats trauma victims, and no one interested in their management could read it and not come away better prepared to take care of these patients. Dr. Trunkey has been one of the forces behind the Current Therapy of Trauma reference text since its inception, and the addition of Dr. Asensio represents a symbolic passing of the torch to the next generation of trauma surgeons dedicated to making a difference in this devastating and costly disease.
Key Features
- Be prepared for the unexpected with practical, concise coverage of major surgical problems in trauma and critical care.
- Get expert practical and up-to-date guidance on ventilator management, damage control, noninvasive techniques, imaging, infection control, dealing with mass casualties, treating injuries induced by chemical and biological agents, and much more.
- Find the information you need quickly and easily through numerous illustrations, key points boxes, algorithms, and tables.
I. Trauma Systems
- 1 The Development of Trauma Systems
- 2 Trauma Center Organization and Verification
- 3 Injury Severity Scoring: Its Definition & Practical Application
- 4 The Role of Alcohol and Other Drugs in Trauma
- 5 The Role of Trauma Prevention in Reducing Interpersonal Violence
- 6 Trauma Scoring
- 7 Trauma Systems and Trauma Triage Algorithms
- 8 Delivering Multidisciplinary Trauma Care: Current Challenges and Future Directions
- 9 Triage
- 10 Pre-Hospital Airway Management: Intubation, Devices, and Controversies
- 11 Pre-Hospital Fluid Resuscitation: What type, how much and controversies
- 12 Civilian Hospital Response to Mass Casualty Events
- 13 Blast Injuries
- 14 Pre-Hospital Care of Biological Agent Induced Injuries
- 15 Wound Ballistics: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know
- 16 Common Pre-Hospital Complications and Pitfalls in the Trauma Patient
- 17Airway Management: What Every Trauma Surgeon Should Know, From Intubation to Cricothyroidotomy
- 18 Resuscitation Fluids
- 19 Emergency Department Thoracotomy
- 20 The Role of Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma: Indications, Limitations, and Controversies
- 21 The Use of Computed Tomography in Initial Trauma Evaluation
- 22 Interventional Radiology: Diagnostics and Therapeutics
- 23 Endpoints of Resuscitation
- 24 Traumatic Brain Injury: Pathophysiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Pre-Hospital and Emergency Center Care
- 25 Traumatic Brain Injury: Imaging, Operative and Nonoperative Care, and Complications
- 26 Spine: Spinal Cord Injury, Blunt and Penetrating, Neurogenic and Spinal Shock
- 27 Maxillofacial Injuries
- 28 Trauma to the Orbit
- 29 Penetrating Neck Injuries: Diagnosis and Selective Management
- 30 Carotid, Vertebral Artery and Jugular Venous Injuries
- 31 Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries
- 32 Tracheal, Laryngeal, and Oropharyngeal Injuries
- 33 Pertinent Surgical Anatomy of the Thorax and Mediastinum
- 34 Thoracic Wall Injuries: Ribs, Sternal Scapular Raptures, Hemo- and Pneumothoraces
- 35 Diagnostic and Therapeutic roles of Bronchoscopy and Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy in the Management of Thoracic Trauma
- 36 Pulmonary contusion and flail chest
- 37 Tracheal and Tracheobronchial Tree Injuries
- 38 Operative Management of Pulmonary Injuries: Lung-Sparing and Formal Resections
- 39 Complications of Pulmonary and Pleural Injury
- 40 Cardiac Injuries
- 41 Thoracic Vascular Injury
- 42 Treatment of Esophageal Injury
- 43 Diaphragmatic Injury
- 44 Surgical Anatomy of the Abdomen and Retroperitoneum
- 45 Dianostic Peritoneal Lavage and Laparoscopy in Evaluation of Abdominal Trauma
- 46 Nonoperative Management of Blunt and Penetrating Abdominal Injuries
- 47 Gastric Injuries
- 48 Small Bowel Injuries
- 49 Duodenal Injuries
- 50 Pancreatic Injuries
- 51 Liver Injury
- 52 Splenic Injuries
- 53 Abdominal Vascular Injuries
- 54 Colon and Rectal Injuries
- 55 Genitourinary Tract Injury
- 56 Gynecologic Injuries
- 57 Multidisciplinary Management of Pelvic Fractures: Operative and Non-operative Hemostasis
- 58 Current Concepts in the Diagnosis and Management of Hemorrhagic Shock
- 59 Exsanguination: Reliable Models to Indicate Damage Control
- 60 Surgical Techniques for Thoracic, Abdominal, Pelvic and Extremity Damage Control
- 61 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, Damage Control and the Post-Traumatic Open Abdomen
- 62 Vascular Anatomy of the Extremities
- 63 The Diagnosis of Vascular Trauma
- 64 Upper Extremity Vascular Trauma
- 65 Lower Extremity Vascular Injuries: Femoral, Popiteal and Shank Vessel Injury
- 66 Compartment Syndromes
- 67 Upper Extremity Fractures: Orthopedic Management
- 68 Lower Extremity Fractures: Orthopedic Management
- 69 Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Fractures
- 70 Pelvic Fractures: Orthopedic Management
- 71 Hand Fractures
- 72 Scapulothoracic Dissociation and Degloving Injuries of the Extremities
- 73 Extremity Replantation: Indications and Timing
- 74 Techniques in the Management of Complex Musculoskeletal Injury: Roles of Muscle, Musculocutaneous, and Fasciocutaneous Flaps
- 75 Airway Management in the Trauma Patient
- 76 Pediatric Trauma
- 77 Trauma in Pregnancy
- 78 Trauma in the Elderly
- 79 Burns
- 80 Soft Tissue Infections
- 81 Common Errors in Trauma Care
- 82 Cardiac Hemodynamics: The Pulmonary Artery Catheter and the Meaning of its Readings
- 83 Oxygen Transport
- 84 Pharmacologic Support of Cardiac Failure
- 85 The Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Dysrhythmias
- 86 Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation
- 87 Advanced Techniques in Mechanical Ventilation
- 88 The Management of Renal Failure: Renal Replacement Therapy and Dialysis
- 89 Management of Coagulation Disorders in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
- 90 The Management of Endocrine Disorders in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
- 91 Transfusion: Management of Blood and Blood Products in Trauma
- 92 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- 93 Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS)
Book Details
- Hardcover: 816 pages
- Publisher: Mosby; 1 edition (February 12, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0323044182
- ISBN-13: 978-0323044189
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 1.3 inches