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The trauma manual trauma and acute care surgery

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Designed to be used as a quick reference, this multidisciplinary pocket guide addresses all areas of trauma and emergency surgery with a list of key points at the end of each chapter. In addition to a new section on the intensive care unit and an extended section on surgical emergencies, this manual...

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Other Authors: Peitzman, Andrew B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2013
Edition:4th ed.
Series:Lippincott manual
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Traumatology > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Wounds and injuries > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Surgical emergencies > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Wounds and Injuries > surgery > Handbooks
Critical Care > methods > Handbooks
Emergency Medicine > methods > Handbooks
Traumatology > methods > Handbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to trauma care
  • Physiologic response to injury
  • Airway management and anesthesia
  • Initial assessment and resuscitation
  • Shock
  • Damage control surgery
  • Blood and transfusion
  • Nutrition intervention
  • Prehospital and air medical care
  • Team activation and organization
  • Imaging of trauma patients
  • Intervention radiology
  • Sepsis in trauma
  • Infections, antibiotic prevention, and antibiotic management
  • Trauma pain management
  • Venous thromboembolism
  • Operating room practice
  • Disasters, mass casualty incidents
  • Injury prevention
  • Rehabilitation
  • Trauma in children
  • Trauma in pregnant women
  • Trauma in older adults
  • Introduction to trauma : mechanism of injury
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Maxillofacial injury
  • Spinal cord and spinal column
  • Ophthalmic injuries
  • Neck trauma
  • Thoracic injuries
  • Abdominal trauma
  • Genitourinary injuries
  • Orthopedic trauma, fractures, and dislocations
  • Peripheral vascular injuries
  • Burns/inhalation injury
  • Priorities in the ICU care of the adult trauma patient
  • Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
  • Cardiovascular disease and monitoring
  • Acute kidney injury
  • Acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation
  • Abdominal compartment syndrome, open abdomen, enterocutaneous fistulae
  • (cont.)
  • Liver failure
  • Support of the organ donor
  • Accidental and therapeutic hypothermia, cold injury, and drowning
  • Introduction to emergency general surgery: evaluation of the acute abdomen
  • Preparation, initial resuscitation, and management of the patient for emergency operation
  • Acute abdomen in ICU patients
  • Bowel obstruction
  • Gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Acute pancreatitis
  • Biliary tract disease
  • Appendicitis
  • Esophagus, stomach, and duodenum
  • Inflammatory diseases of the intestines
  • Acute anorectal pain
  • Soft tissue infection
  • Vascular emergencies
  • Hernias
  • Obstetric and gynecologic emergencies
  • Laparoscopic treatment of the acute abdomen
  • Miscellaneous procedures
  • Scoring for injury and emergency surgery
  • App.A.: Injury scales
  • App.B.: Frequently used forms

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