Acute Care Surgery and Trauma

Edited by Stephen M. Cohn, MD, Staten Island University Hospital, New York, USA Matthew O. Dolich, MD, University of California, Irvine, USA Kenji Inaba, MD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

TRAUMA. Patient Safety in the Care of Trauma Patients. Evidence-Based Injury Prevention Strategies. Trauma Systems. Evidence-Based Surgery: Military Injury Outcomes. Evidence-Based Surgery: Traumatized Airway. Monitoring of the Trauma Patient. Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient. Diagnosis of Injury in the Trauma Patient. Evidence-Based Approach to Damage Control Laparotomy. Evidence-Based Surgery: Coagulopathy in the Trauma Patient. Traumatic Brain Injury. Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries. Facial Injuries. Ocular Trauma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Evaluation and Management. Neck Trauma. Emergency Thoracotomy. Chest Wall Trauma. Evidence-Based Surgery: Injury to the Thoracic Great Vessels. Cardiac Trauma. Injury to the Esophagus, Trachea, and Bronchus. An Evidence-Based Approach to Spleen Injury. Injury to the Liver. Small Bowel and Colon Injuries. Diaphragmatic Injuries. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injuries. Abdominal Vascular Trauma. Evidence-Based Approach to Pregnant Trauma Patients. Pelvic Fractures. Evidence-Based Approach to Extremity Vascular Trauma. Surgery of Upper Extremity. Lower Extremity Injury. Limb Salvage for the Mangled Extremity. Critical Questions in Support of the Burned Patient. Inhalation Injury. Electrical, Cold, and Chemical Injuries. Evidence-Based Wound Care Management. Viperidae Snakebite Envenomation. Evidence-Based Surgery: War Wounds. Evidence-Based Surgery: Pediatric Trauma. Evidence-Based Approach to Geriatric Trauma. Rural Trauma. Evidence-Based Management of Genitourinary Trauma. SURGICAL EMERGENCIES. Small Bowel Surgery. Evidence-Based Approach to Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Peptic Ulcer Disease. Enterocutaneous Fistulas. Paraesophageal Hernia Repair. Appendicitis: Evidence-Based Medicine. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Diverticular Disease of the Colon. Large Bowel Obstruction. Acute and Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia. Ogilvie’s Syndrome and Colonic Volvulus. Hemorrhoids. Anal Fissure, Fistula, and Abscess. Evidence-Based Practice: Acute Cholecystitis. Acute Cholangitis. Acute Pancreatitis. Pancreatic Pseudocysts. Liver Abscess. Diagnosis and Treatment of Variceal Hemorrhage due to Cirrhosis. Acute Arterial Embolus. Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm. Acute Aortic Dissection. Deep Venous Thrombosis. Pulmonary Embolism. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections. Incarcerated Hernias. Surgical Endocrine Emergencies. SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE. Bacteremia. Prevention of Central Venous Catheter Infections. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia. Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock. Perioperative Arrhythmias. Feeds and Feeding Surgical Patients. Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Acute Renal Dysfunction. Evidence-Based Electrolyte Management. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in the ICU. Malignant Hypertension: An Evidence-Based Surgery Review.