No member of the emergency room or trauma ward physician should be without this 4th
edition of The Trauma Manual:
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Designed to be used as a quick reference, this
multidisciplinary pocket guide addresses
all areas of trauma and emergency surgery with a list of key points at the end of each
chapter.
In addition to a new section on the intensive care unit and an extended section on
surgical emergencies, this manual
also covers GI hemorrhage, hernias, bowel obstruction, pancreatitis, biliary tract
disease, and other surgical
challenges faced by trauma and emergency surgery personnel.
Organized in a chronological fashion following the usual events and phases of care after
injury or acute surgical
illness, this user-friendly manual is one guide every trauma surgeon, surgical resident,
surgical critical care
specialist, emergency medicine physician, and emergency or trauma nurse, will want to
keep close by.
NEW TO THIS EDITION
* Additional section on the intensive care unit
* Extended section on surgical emergencies
* 5 new chapters covering:
- Acute respiratory failure
- Cardiovascular disease and monitoring
- Multiple organ dysfunction
- Soft tissue infections
- The role of laparoscopy in emergency surgery
Table of Contents
1 Introduction to Trauma Care (Amy N. Hildreth ?R. Shayn Martin ?J. Wayne Meredith)
2 Physiologic Response to Injury (Luke P.H. Leenen)
3 Airway Management and Anesthesia (Henry E. Wang ?Jean-Francois Pittet ?Donald M. Yealy)
4 Initial Assessment and Resuscitation (Michael Rhodes ?Michael Kalina)
5 Shock (Joshua Brown ?Jason L. Sperry ?Timothy R. Billiar)
6 Damage Control Surgery (Brett H. Waibel ?Michael F. Rotondo)
7 Blood and Transfusion (Michael W. Cripps ?Mitchell J. Cohen ?Robert C. Mackersie)
8 Nutritional Intervention (Jodie A. Bryk ?Juan B. Ochoa)
9 Prehospital and Air Medical Care (Francis X. Guyette ?David C. Cone)
10 Team Activation and Organization (William S. Hoff)
11 Imaging of Trauma Patients (Asim F. Choudhri)
12 Interventional Radiology (J. Scott Williams)
13 Sepsis in Trauma (Ayan Sen ?Derek C. Angus)
14 Infections, Antibiotic Prevention, and Antibiotic Management (Philip S. Barie ?
Soumitra R. Eachempati)
15 Trauma Pain Management (Donald M. Yealy)
16 Venous Thromboembolism (Gerard Fulda ?Mark Cipolle)
17 Operating Room Practice (Steven A. Johnson ?Michael Rhodes)
18 Disasters, Mass Casualty Incidents (Ronald N. Roth ?Amir Blumenfeld ?Susan M. Briggs)
19 Injury Prevention (Charles C. Branas)
20 Rehabilitation (John A. Horton III ?Gary N. Galang)
21A Trauma in Children (Daniel J. Grabo ?Thane A. Blinman ?Michael L. Nance ?C. William
Schwab)
21B Trauma in Pregnant Women (Daniel J. Grabo ?C. William Schwab)
21C Trauma in Older Adults (Daniel J. Grabo ?C. William Schwab)
22 Introduction to Trauma: Mechanism of Injury (Gregory J. Jurkovich ?L.D. Britt)
23 Traumatic Brain Injury (Meredith S. Tinti ?Vicente H. Gracias ?Peter D. Le Roux)
24 Maxillofacial Injury (William L. Chung ?James M. Russavage ?Mark W. Ochs)
25 Spinal Cord and Spinal Column (Matthew Sanborn ?Lachlan J. Smith ?Neil R. Malhotra)
26 Ophthalmic Injuries (S. Tonya Stefko ?Donald M. Yealy)
27 Neck Trauma (Tiffany K. Bee ?Martin A. Croce)
28 Thoracic Injuries (Juan A. Asensio ?Federico N. Mazzini ?Thai Vu)
29 Abdominal Trauma (Matthew D. Neal ?L.D. Britt ?Greg Watson ?Alan Murdock ?Andrew B.
Peitzman)
30 Genitourinary Injuries (Hunter Wessells)
31 Orthopedic Trauma, Fractures, and Dislocations (Samir Mehta ?L. Scott Levin)
32 Peripheral Vascular Injuries (Louis J. Magnotti ?John P. Sharpe ?Timothy C. Fabian)
33 Burns/Inhalation Injury (James H. Holmes IV)
34 Priorities in the ICU Care of the Adult Trauma Patient (Philip S. Barie ?Soumitra R.
Eachempati)
35 Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (Philip A. Efron ?Darwin N. Ang ?Lyle L. Moldawer ?
Frederick A. Moore)
36 Cardiovascular Disease and Monitoring (Mayur Narayan ?Thomas M. Scalea)
37 Acute Kidney Injury (Feihu Zhou ?John A. Kellum)
38 Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation (Cory J. Vatsass ?Lena M.
Napolitano)
39 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, Open Abdomen, Enterocutaneous Fistulae (James F.
Whelan ?Michel B. Aboutanos ?Rao
R. Ivatury)
40 Liver Failure (Deanna Blisard)
41 Support of the Organ Donor (Patrick K. Kim ?Matthew V. Benns ?Patrick M. Reilly ?C.
William Schwab)
42 Accidental and Therapeutic Hypothermia, Cold Injury, and Drowning (Samuel A. Tisherman)
43 Introduction to Emergency General Surgery: Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen (Grace S.
Rozycki ?David V. Feliciano)
44 Preparation, Initial Resuscitation, and Management of the Patient for Emergency
Operation (Ali Y. Mejaddam ?George
C. Velmahos)
45 Acute Abdomen in ICU Patients (Matthew R. Rosengart)
46 Bowel Obstruction (Vishal Bansal ?Raul Coimbra)
47 Gastrointestinal Bleeding (Kent Zettel ?James Moser)
48 Acute Pancreatitis (Ari K. Leppaniemi)
49 Biliary Tract Disease (Benjamin Braslow)
50 Appendicitis (Daniel N. Holena ?C. William Schwab)
51 Esophagus, Stomach, and Duodenum (Louis H. Alarcon ?Ryan M. Levy ?James D. Luketich)
52 Inflammatory Diseases of the Intestines (Sean P. Whelan ?Vaishali D. Schuchert ?Brian
S. Zuckerbraun)
53 Acute Anorectal Pain (Frederick J. Denstman)
54 Soft Tissue Infection (David Morris ?Babak Sarani)
55 Vascular Emergencies (Syed M. Faisal Alam ?Christopher H. Byrne)