Acute Care Surgery. Principles and Practice

The text is augmented by more than 500 tables and illustrations

Every chapter begins with a box highlighting the key points and current areas of controversy

Edited by an internationally renowned trio of experts

The practice of general and trauma surgery frequently involves a broad range of emergency situations. Surgeons must be familiar with diagnosis and operative management principles in the fast-paced environment of the emergency setting.

Acute Care Surgery: Principles and Practice comprehensively presents the full spectrum of surgical emergencies, including trauma and non-traumatic acute surgical diseases of the abdominal, pelvic, and cardiothoracic organs as well as the extremities, skin and soft tissue, and head and neck. Management of surgical infections is also discussed.

Edited by an internationally renowned trio of experts, Acute Care Surgery is the ideal reference text for surgical trainees as well as practicing surgeons. Authoritative, comprehensive, and user- friendly, the text features over 40 chapters complete with case studies as well as question and answer commentaries. Every chapter begins with a box highlighting the key points and current areas of controversy.

The text is augmented by more than 500 tables and illustrations. Acute Care Surgery is destined to be the gold-standard reference for surgeons faced with split-second decision making in the acute setting.

Table of contents

1. General Principles: Initial Assessment and Early Resuscitation.-
2. Operating Theater for Acute Care Surgery.-
3. Anesthesia and Acute Care Surgery.-
4. Fundamental Operative Approaches in Acute Care Surgery.-
5. The Perioperative Management of the Acute Surgical Patient.-
6. Hemodynamically Labile Patient.-
7. Principles and Practice of Nutritional Support in Surgical Patients.-
8. The Intensive Care Unit.-
9. Burns.-
10. Electrical and Lightning Injuries.-
11. Soft Tissue Infections.-
12. The Open Abdomen.- Acute Care Surgery and the Elderly.-
13. Acute Care Surgery in the Rural Setting.-
14. PreHospital Care in the Acute Setting.-
15. Disaster and Mass Casualty Management.-
16. Principles of Injury Prevention and Control.-
17. Surgical Simulation in Acute Care Surgery.-
18. Principles and Practice of Acute Care Surgery: Pharynx and Larynx.-
19. Head and Neck.- Esophageal.-
20. Cranial and Spinal.-
21. Chest Wall.-
22. Pulmonary.-
23. Cardiac Trauma.-
24. Thoracic Aorta.-
25. Diaphragm.-
26. Abdominal Wall.-
27. Small Intestine.-
28. Hepatic and Biliary.-
29. Pancreatic.-
30. Splenic.-
31. Vascular.-
32. Anorectal and Colorectal.-
33. Urogenital.-
34. Pelvic Ring Fractures.-
35. Lower Extremities.-
36. The Hand and Upper Extremity.-
37. Peripheral Vascular.-
38. Administration, Ethics, and Law: Understanding the Latest Changes in EMTALA.-
39. Informed Surgical Consent.-
40. Advance Directives.-
41. The Nonviable Patient and Organ Procurement.-
42. Ethical Dilemmas and the Law.-
43. System and Curriculum Development: Development of a Regional System for Surgical Emergencies (RSSE).-
44. The Curriculum.-
45. The Vanderbilt Model.-
46. International Communities: United Kingdom.-
47. Australia.-
48. Japan.