Trauma Surgery Essentials

Anil K. Srivastava, MD, FACS, is a Trauma and General Surgeon at Mercy Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in St Louis, Missouri. Dr. Srivastava has a teaching affiliation with St Louis University, Department of Surgery, in Saint Louis, Missouri. He is a fellow and member of various prestigious surgical societies, including the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (UK), the Royal College of Surgeons of London (UK), American Burn Association, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and Americas Hernia Society. He has published many journal articles in peer reviewed journals and given presentations at various scientific meetings. He believes that essential fund of knowledge is the 'key' in the management of trauma and surgical patients.

PART A EMERGENT EVALUATION OF THE TRAUA PATIENTS SECTION I INITIAL EVALUATION Chapter 1: The Vicious cycle of trauma Chapter 2: Death in trauma patients Chapter 3: Process of evaluation of trauma patients Chapter 4: Primary survey & Resuscitation SECTION II MANAGEMENT OF AIRWAY Chapter 5: Definitive airway Chapter 6: Endotracheal intubation Chapter 7: Extra-glottic devices in failed intubation Chapter 8: Emergency surgical airway SECTION III MANAGEMENT OF BREATHING Chapter 9: Compromised Breathing & Ventilation Chapter 10: Procedures for compromised breathing SECTION IV MANAGEMENT OF CIRCULATION Chapter 11: Assessment and Management of shock Chapter 12: Pathophysiology of hemorrhagic shock Chapter 13: Manifestation of hemorrhagic shock Chapter 14: Differential diagnosis of shock in trauma patients Chapter 15: Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome(SIRS), Sepsis & Septic Shock Chapter 16: Principles of management of hemorrhagic shock Chapter 17: Access for fluid resuscitation Chapter 18: Resuscitation fluid Chapter 19: Balanced resuscitation Chapter 20: Use of Blood and Blood products Chapter 21: Control of bleeding Chapter 22: Viscoelastic Hemostatic Assay Chapter 23: Resuscitative Endoluminal Balloon Occlusion of Aorta (REBOA) Chapter 24: Monitoring of Resuscitation

PART B MANAGEMENT OF SPECIFIC TRAUMA PROBLEMS SECTION V MANAGEMENT OF HEAD TRAUMA Chapter 25: Evaluation of head injury Chapter 26: Types of brain injury Chapter 27: Intracranial pressure monitoring Chapter 28: Non- surgical management of traumatic brain injury Chapter 29: Surgical management of traumatic brain injury Chapter 30: Brain death Chapter 31: Scalp laceration Chapter 32: Skull fracture Chapter 33: Facial fracture SECTION VI MANAGEMENT OF SPINE TRAUMA Chapter 34: Cervical spine clearance in blunt injury Chapter 35: Blunt cerebrovascular injury Chapter 36: Cervical spine injuries Chapter 37: Thoracolumbar spine injury Chapter 38: Spinal cord injury SECTION VII NECK TRAUMA Chapter 39: Blunt neck trauma Chapter 40: Penetrating neck trauma SECTION VIII CHEST TRAUMA Chapter 41: Chest wall injury Chapter 42: Lung and tracheobronchial injury Chapter 43: Thoracic vascular injury Chapter 44: Esophageal injury Chapter 45: Damage control thoracotomy SECTION IX ABDOMINAL TRAUMA Chapter 46: Management of hemodynamically unstable abdominal (Blunt/Penetrating) trauma Chapter 47: Damage control exploratory laparotomy Chapter 48: Temporary abdominal closure Chapter 49: Exposure of retroperitoneum Chapter 50: Management of liver injury Chapter 51: Management of pancreatic injury Chapter 52: Management of spleen injury Chapter 53 : Management of stomach injury Chapter 54: Management of duodenal injury Chapter 55: Management of small bowel injury Chapter 56: Management of colorectal injury Chapter 57: Management of retroperitoneal vascular injury Chapter 58: Management of pelvic bleeding Chapter 59: Management of urogenital injury SECTION X PERIPHERAL VASCULAR INJURY Chapter 60: Management of upper extremity vascular injury Chapter 61: Management of lower extremity vascular injury SECTION XI MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY Chapter 62: Management of pelvic fracture Chapter 63: Management of extremities fractures Chapter 64: Classification of musculoskeletal injuries Chapter 65: Compartment syndrome Chapter 66: Amputations SECTION XII MISCELLANEOUS Chapter 67: Trauma in the extremes of age Chapter 68: Trauma in pregnancy Chapter 69: Scoring systems in trauma