DESCRIPTION:
With an emphasis on the "hows and whys" of contemporary surgery, Operative Techniques in Trauma and Critical Care features concise, bulleted text, full-color illustrations, and intraoperative photographs to clarify exactly what to look for and how to proceed. Drawn from the larger Operative Techniques in Surgery, Second Edition, this newly stand-alone surgical atlas, overseen by editor-in-chief Mary T. Hawn and meticulously edited by Dr. Amy J. Goldberg, focuses on the steps of each technique, rapidly directing you to the information you need to choose the right approach for each patient, perform it successfully, and achieve the best possible results.
- Provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidance on thermal injuries infection traumatic injury to the chest wall, pleura, and diaphragm thoracic traumatic injuries injury to the neck, GI and GU tracts, duodenum, pancreas, spleen, and liver pelvic fracture and retroperitoneal hematoma vascular injuries trauma in pregnancy and supportive procedures
- Covers open and video-assisted procedures in trauma and critical care surgery
- Features new videos, personally selected by contributing authors and editors, that accompany numerous chapters throughout the book
- Contains extensive updates throughout, including new coverage of the American Board of Surgery""s SCORE Curricula for General Surgery and for Complex General Surgical Oncology
- Follows the same format for each procedure: differential diagnosis, patient history and physical findings, imaging and other diagnostic studies, surgical management, techniques, pearls and pitfalls, postoperative care, outcomes, and complications
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CONTENTS:
Section I Thermal Injury
1 Burn Surgery: Escharotomy, Excision, and Split-Thickness Skin Grafting
2 Frostbite and Hypothermia: Surgical Management
3 Electrical Burns
Section II Infection
4 Decision-Making and Operative Management of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
Section III Traumatic Injury to the Chest Wall, Pleura, and Diaphragm
5 Rib Plating
6 Needle Decompression, Tube Thoracostomy, Thoracentesis
7 Pleurodesis
8 Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for Retained Hemothorax and Empyema
9 Repair of Diaphragmatic Injury (Primary and Mesh)
Section IV Thoracic Traumatic Injuries
10 Thoracic Incisions: Median Sternotomy, Anterolateral Thoracotomy, Bilateral Thoracotomy, Posterolateral Thoracotomy
11 Pericardial Window: Subxiphoid, Parasternal
12 Repair of Cardiac Injury
13 Surgical Management of Lung Trauma: Tractotomy, Wedge Resection, and Lobectomy
14 Pneumonectomy for Trauma
15 Arterial: Subclavian, Thoracic Aorta, Endovascular
16 Thoracic Vascular Injury_Venous: Brachiocephalic Vein, Subclavian Vein
Section V Injury to the Neck
17 Incisions: Anterior Sternocleidomastoid Incision, Collar Incision
18 Upper Aerodigestive Tract Injury: Trachea
19 Surgical Management of Injuries to the Cervical Esophagus
20 Repair of Internal and External Carotid Injury
21 Vascular Injury_Neck: Internal Jugular Vein
Section VI Traumatic Injury to the Gastrointestinal Tract
22 Trauma Laparotomy
23 Gastric and Small Bowel Injury: Primary Repair, Resection, Anastomosis, Wedge Resection
24 Colon and Rectal Injury: Primary Repair, Resection and Anastomosis, Colostomy
25 Extraperitoneal Rectal Injury: Colostomy, Presacral Drains
Section VII Traumatic Injury to the Duodenum and Pancreas
26 Operative Management of Duodenal Injury
27 Pancreas: Drainage, Distal Pancreatectomy/ Splenectomy
Section VIII Traumatic Injury to the Spleen and Liver
28 Splenic Injury: Splenectomy and Splenorrhaphy
29 Surgical Management of Hepatic Trauma
Section IX Traumatic Injury to the Genitourinary Tract
30 Genitourinary Injury_Kidney: Renorrhaphy, Nephrectomy
31 Genitourinary Injury_Bladder: Extraperitoneal, Intraperitoneal
32 Ureter: Proximal Third, Middle Third, Distal Third
Section X Pelvic Fracture/Retroperitoneal Hematoma
33 Preperitoneal Pelvic Packing
Section XI Vascular Injury_Abdominal
34 Zone I Injuries
35 Abdominal Vascular Injury Zone II
36 Abdominal Vascular Injury Zone III
Section XII Vascular Injury: Extremities
37 Lower Extremity Vascular Trauma_Femoral and Popliteal With Infrapopliteal Fasciotomy
38 Upper Extremity: Axillary, Brachial, Radial/Ulnar Fasciotomy
Section XIII Trauma in Pregnancy
39 Trauma Cesarean Section
Section XIV Supportive Procedures
40 Cricothyroidotomy
41 Tracheostomy: Open and Percutaneous
