Acute Care Surgery and Trauma

Stephen M Cohn MD FACS, Witten B. Russ Professor of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA. With a Foreword by Brad H Pollock MPH PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science, Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA. With an Introduction by Basil A Pruitt Jr. MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science, Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.

Section I – Trauma 1. Why Evidence-Based Medicine? 2. Why Scientific Surgery? 3. Evidence for Injury Prevention Strategies: From Private Practice to Public Policy 4. Trauma Systems 5. Evidence-Based Review of Trauma Outcomes 6. Evidence-Based Surgery: Military Injury Outcomes 7. Evidence-Based Surgery: Traumatized Airway 8. Monitoring of the Trauma Patient 9. Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient 10. Diagnosis of Injury in the Trauma Patient 11. An Evidence-Based Approach to Damage Control Laparotomy for Trauma 12. Evidence-Based Surgery: Coagulopathy in the Trauma Patient 13. Traumatic Brain Injury 14. Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries 15. Facial Injuries 16. Ocular Trauma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Evaluation and Management 17. Neck Trauma 18. Emergency Thoracotomy 19. Trauma to the Chest Wall 20. Evidence-BASED Surgery: Injury to the Thoracic Great Vessels 21. Evidence-Based Surgery: Cardiac Trauma 22. Injury to the Esophagus, Trachea, and Bronchus 23. An Evidence-Based Approach to Spleen Trauma: Management and Outcomes 24. Injury to the Liver 25. Small Bowel and Colon Injuries 26. Diaphragmatic Injuries 27. Pancreatic and Duodenal Trauma 28. Abdominal Vascular Trauma 29. An Evidence-Based Approach to Pregnant Trauma Patients 30. Pelvic Fractures 31. An Evidence-Based Approach to Extremity Vascular Trauma 32. Surgery of Upper Extremity 33. Lower Extremity Injury 34. Limb Salvage for the Mangled Extremity 35. Critical Questions in Support of the Burned Patient 36. Burn Wound Management 37. Inhalation Injury 38. Electrical, Cold, and Chemical Injuries 39. Evidence-Based Wound Care Management 40. Viperidae Snakebite Envenomation 41. Evidence-Based Surgery: War Wounds 42. Evidence-Based Surgery: Pediatric Trauma 43. An Evidence-Based Approach to Geriatric Trauma 44. Rural Trauma 45. Reducing Patient Errors in Trauma Care Section II – Emergency General Surgery 46. Small Bowel Surgery 47. An Evidence-Based Approach to Upper GI Bleed Management 48. Peptic Ulcer Disease 49. Enterocutaneous Fistula 50. Paraesophageal Hernia Repair 51. Appendicitis 52. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding 53. Diverticular Disease of the Colon 54. Large Bowel Obstruction 55. Acute and Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia 56. Ogilvie’s Syndrome and Colonic Volvulus 57. Hemorrhoids 58. Anal Fissure, Fistula, and Abscess 59. Evidence-Based Surgery: Pilonidal Disease 60. Rectal Prolapse: Evidence-Based Outcomes 61. Evidence-Based Practice: Acute Cholecystitis 62. Acute Cholangitis 63. Acute Pancreatitis 64. Pancreatic Pseudo-cysts 65. Liver Abscess 66. Diagnosis and Treatment of Variceal Hemorrhage due to Cirrhosis 67. Gangrene of the Foot 68. Acute Arterial Embolus 69. Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm 70. Acute Aortic Dissection 71. Deep Venous Thrombosis 72. Pulmonary Embolism 73. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections 74. Incarcerated Hernias 75. Surgical Endocrine Emergencies Section III – Surgical Critical Care Problems 76. Evidence-Based Surgery: Bacteremia 77. Prevention of Central Venous Catheter Infections 78. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia 79. Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock 80. Perioperative Arrhythmias 81. Feeds and Feeding Surgical Patients 82. Evidence-Based Surgery: Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 83. Acute Renal Failure 84. Hyperglycemia 85. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome 86. Agitation and Delirium in the ICU 87. Malignant Hypertension: An Evidence-based Surgery Review