Acute Care Surgery and Trauma

Stephen M Cohn MD, FACS I am a native of Oakland, California, and attended Baylor College of Medicine after completing a Biochemistry degree at University of California, Santa Barbara. I completed my general surgical training and trauma/critical care fellowship at Boston University. I joined Yale University School of Medicine as Chief of the Trauma Service, but within a few months was called to serve with the US Army Medical Corp in Desert Storm. Upon return to New Haven, I was asked to assume the position as Division Chief of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care where I built a successful ACS Level One Trauma Center, and a surgical critical care fellowship. In addition, I started an active research program utilizing animal models of trauma. I later assumed the role of Medical Director of the Ryder Trauma Center, as the Robert Zeppa Endowed Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami and ran the Divisions of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. Subsequently, I served as the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Recently, I joined Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and Hackensack University Medical Center where I plan to continue to operate, educate and be an active researcher. I have produced more than 250 publications, have completed my seventh textbook (6 with CRC press), have had extensive funded research, am a member of many professional organizations, and serve as a reviewer for numerous journals, among many other activities. My academic and research interests are in the areas of: trauma and combat casualty care and surgical infections. I have been the recipient of several teaching awards, including the Teacher of the Year awards at Boston University, University of Massachusetts, Yale, and Northwell Health, and a Lifetime Achievement in Education award from University of Miami Department of Surgery. I am most proud, professionally, of the large number (>100) of ICU, Trauma, and Research Fellows and numerous residents and students I have had the pleasure to help educate.

Foreword by Basil A. Pruit. Author Biography. List of Contributors. Introduction. Patient Safety in the Care of Trauma Patients. Injury Prevention Strategies. Trauma Systems: A Dynamic Public Health Strategy for Injury Control. Military Injury Outcomes. Traumatized Airway. Monitoring of the Trauma Patient. Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient. Diagnosis of Injury in the Trauma Patient. Damage Control Laparotomy and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome. Coagulopathy in the Trauma Patient. Traumatic Brain Injury. Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries. Facial Injuries. Ocular Trauma. Neck Trauma. Resuscitative Thoracotomy. Chest Wall Trauma. Injury to the Thoracic Great Vessels. Cardiac Trauma. Injury to the Esophagus, Trachea, and Bronchus. Spleen Injury. Injury to the Liver. Small Bowel and Colon Injuries. Diaphragmatic Injuries. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injuries. Abdominal Vascular Trauma. Pregnant Trauma Patients. Pelvic Fractures. Extremity Vascular Injury. Management of Extremity Trauma and Mangled Extremities. Support of the Burned Patient. Electrical, Cold, and Chemical Injuries. Wound Care Management. Pediatric Trauma. The Advanced-Age Trauma Patient. Genitourinary Trauma. Ileus and Small Bowel Obstruction. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Enterocutaneous Fistulas. Paraesophageal Hernia Repair. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Appendicitis. Diverticular Disease of the Colon. Large Bowel Obstruction. Acute and Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia. Hemorrhoids. Anal Fissure, Fistula, and Abscess. Acute Cholecystitis and Cholangitis. Acute Pancreatitis. Pancreatic Pseudocysts. Diagnosis and Treatment of Variceal Hemorrhage Due to Cirrhosis. Acute Arterial Embolus. Ruptured Aortic Aneurysm. Venous Thromboembolism: Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections. Incarcerated Hernias. Surgical Endocrine Emergencies. Index.