Trauma Anesthesia

Dr. Charles Smith is Professor of Anesthesia and the Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Smith is a board-certified anesthesiologist with expertise in trauma care and has published extensively on the topic.

Foreward; 1. Trauma airway management William C. Wilson; 2. Shock management Richard P. Dutton; 3. Establishing vascular access in the trauma patient Matthew A. Joy, Donn Marciniak and Kasia Petelenz-Rubin; 4. Monitoring the trauma patient Steele, Soran, Donn Marciniak and Charles E. Smith; 5. Fluid and blood therapy in trauma Maxim Novikov and Charles E. Smith; 6. Massive transfusion protocols in trauma care John E. Forestner; 7. Blood loss: does it change my intravenous anesthetic? Ken Johnson and Talmage D. Egan; 8. Pharmacology of neuromuscular blocking agents and their reversal in trauma patients Francois Donati; 9. Abdominal trauma: surgical issues Amy McDonald; 10. Anesthesia considerations for abdominal trauma William C. Wilson; 11. Cardiac and great vessel trauma Naz Bige Aydin, Michael C. Moon and Indergit Gill; 12. Anesthesia considerations for cardiothoracic trauma Gerhardt and Gravlee; 13. Intraoperative one-lung ventilation for trauma anesthesia Peter Slinger and George W. Kanellakos; 14. Use of echocardiography and ultrasound in trauma Colin Royse and Alistair Royse; 15. Trauma and regional anesthesia Shalini Dhir and Sugantha Ganapathy; 16. Musculoskeletal trauma Heather A. Vallier and Mark D. Jenkins; 17. Anesthesia considerations for musculoskeletal trauma R. M. Donatiello, Andrew D. Rosenberg and Charles E. Smith; 18. Ultrasound procedures in trauma Paul Soeding and Peter Hebbard; 19. Hypothermia in trauma Eldar Soreide and Charles E. Smith; 20. Damage control in severe trauma Michael Parr and Buehner; 21. Burn injuries Charles J. Yowler; 22. Anesthesia for burns Jessica Anne Lovich-Sapola; 23. Oral and maxillofacial trauma Ketan P. Parekh and Cecil S. Ash; 24. Eye trauma and anesthesia Steven Roth; 25. Acute spinal cord injuries Timothy Moore; 26. Management of mechanical ventilation in critically injured patients Maureen McCunn; 27. Trauma in pregnancy John R. Fisgus, Kalpana Tvagaraj and Sohail Kamran Mahboobi; 28. Trauma in the elderly Jeffrey Silverstein; 29. Pediatric trauma anesthesia Joy Loy; 30. Intensive care unit management of pediatric brain injury Robert Cohn, Maroun Mhanna, Elie Rizkala and Dennis M. Super; 31. Field anesthesia and military injury Mahoney and McFarland; 32. Teams, team training and the role of simulation in trauma Paul Barach; 33. Trauma systems, triage and transfer John Como; 34. Post-trauma chronic pain Kutaibba Tabbaa.