Trauma

This one-stop resource begins with an informative look at the history and epidemiology of trauma surgery, as well as injury prevention, before moving into core topics such as trauma systems, triage, and transport, and managing shock. It then delivers a clear, organ-by-organ overview of the treatment of traumatic injuries, from the cranium and brain to pelvic fractures, while covering need-to-know subjects such as anesthesia and infection.

History of trauma care -- Epidemiology -- Injury prevention -- Trauma systems, triage and transport -- Injury severity scoring and outcomes research -- Trauma outcomes -- Kinematics of trauma -- Prehospital care -- Trauma care in mass casualty incidents -- Rural trauma -- Initial assessment and management -- Airway control -- Management of shock -- Transfusion, autotransfusion, and blood substitutes -- Emergency department thoracotomy -- Diagnostic and interventional radiology -- Surgeon-performed ultrasound in trauma and surgical critical care -- Anesthesia -- Infection -- The brain -- Injury to the eye -- Face -- Management of acute neck injuries -- Injury to the vertebrae and spinal cord -- Indications for and techniques of thoracotomy -- Chest wall and lung -- Esophagus, trachea, and bronchus -- Trauma to the heart -- Thoracic great vessel injury -- Indications for and techniques of laparotomy -- Injury to the diaphragm -- Liver and biliary tract -- Injury to the spleen -- Stomach and small bowel -- Duodenum and pancreas -- Colon and rectum -- Abdominal vascular injury -- Pelvic fractures -- Genitourinary trauma -- Reproductive system trauma -- Trauma damage control -- Upper e…