DESCRIPTION:
Time is of the essence in the effective management of trauma patients, requiring quick evaluation, immediate lifesaving procedures, and a definitive treatment of a wide variety of injuries. Trauma Surgery Essentials: A Must-Know Guide to Emergency Management has been written and designed to provide need-to-know information in a visually appealing, easy-to-read format. Expert trauma surgeon Dr. Anil K. Srivastava has identified the essential trauma surgery facts and procedures you must know, based on authoritative textbooks, practice guidelines, and current peer-reviewed journals, and compiled all of this information into a handy guide, ideal for quick reference at the point of care.
Key Features
- Covers the emergent evaluation and management of trauma patients, as well as the emergency management of specific injuries.
- Uses an easy-to-digest, bullet-point format to convey information in a way that""s easy to follow and understand.
- Contains dozens of full-color illustrations that focus on surgical anatomy and surgical procedures, as well as numerous algorithms that aid in surgical decision making.
- A valuable resource for medical students, trainee surgical residents, trauma surgery fellows, general surgeons, trauma surgeons, ER physicians, and midlevel providers, as well as other non-surgical physicians who are interested in the management of trauma patients.
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
CONTENTS:
Part 1: Evaluation and Resuscitation of Trauma
Section I: Initial Evaluation of Trauma Patients
Chapter 1. Death in Trauma Patients
Chapter 2. Process of Evaluation of Trauma Patients
Section II: Resuscitation of Trauma Patients
Chapter 3. The Vicious Cycle of Trauma
Chapter 4. Airway Assessment and Management
Chapter 5. Management of Breathing and Ventilation
Chapter 6. Assessment of Shock in Trauma Patients
Chapter 7. Principles of Management of Hemorrhagic Shock
Chapter 8. Viscoelastic Hemostatic Assay
Chapter 9. Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta
Chapter 10. Monitoring of Resuscitation of Hemorrhagic Shock
Part 2: Emergency Management of Regional Trauma
Section III: Head Trauma
Chapter 11. Evaluation of Head Injury
Chapter 12. Management of Severe Brain Injury
Chapter 13. Scalp Laceration, Skull Fractures, and Facial Fractures
Section IV: Spine Trauma
Chapter 14. Cervical Spine Clearance Chapter 15. Evaluation and Management of Cervical Spine Injuries
Chapter 16. Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Injuries
Chapter 17. Evaluation and Management of Spinal Cord Injury
Section V: Neck Trauma
Chapter 18. Evaluation and Management of Blunt Neck Trauma
Chapter 19. Evaluation and Management of Penetrating Neck Injuries
Section VI: Chest Trauma
Chapter 20. Emergency Thoracotomies Chapter 21. Evaluation and Management of Severe Thoracic Injuries
Section VII: Abdominal Trauma
Chapter 22. Evaluation and Management of Hemodynamically Unstable Abdominal Penetrating/Blunt Trauma
Chapter 23. Evaluation and Management of Hemodynamically Stable Abdominal Penetrating/Blunt Trauma
Chapter 24. Trauma Exploratory Laparotomy
Chapter 25. Management of Liver Injuries
Chapter 26. Evaluation and Management of Pancreatic Injuries
Chapter 27. Evaluation and Management of Spleen Injuries
Chapter 28. Evaluation and Management of Stomach and Duodenal Injuries
Chapter 29. Management of Small Bowel, Colon, and Rectal Injuries
Chapter 30. Evaluation and Management of Urological Injuries
Section VIII: Vascular Trauma
Chapter 31. Evaluation and Management of Retroperitoneal Vascular Injuries
Chapter 32. Evaluation and Management of Vascular Injuries (Upper and Lower Extremities)
Section IX: Musculoskeletal Trauma
Chapter 33. Evaluation and Management of Pelvic Fracture Emergencies
Chapter 34. Evaluation and Management of Extremity Fracture Emergencies
Part 3: Miscellaneous
Section X: Pediatric Trauma, Trauma in Pregnancy, Scoring and Grading, Medications
Chapter 35. Evaluation and Management of Pediatric Trauma
Chapter 36. Evaluation and Management of Trauma in Pregnancy
Chapter 37. Commonly Used Scoring and Grading Systems in Trauma
Chapter 38. Medications in Emergency Trauma Management
