Trauma, Critical Care and Surgical Emergencies

Trauma
Fluid Resuscitation for the Trauma Patient, Michael M Krausz
Complex Airway, Thomas C Mort and Joseph V Portereiko
Major Blunt Head Injury, Brian Hood, Leo Harris, and M Ross Bullock
Minor Blunt Head Injury in the Intoxicated Patient, Eleanor S Winston and Lisa Patterson
Stab Wound to the Carotid Artery, Jonathan B Lundy and Stephen M Cohn
Cervical Spine Fracture with Quadriplegia, Eric B Harris, James Lawrence, Jeffrey Rihn, Li Gang, and Alexander R Vaccaro
Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury, David Wisner
Transmediastinal Penetrating Trauma, Kevin Schuster and Erik Barquist
Diaphragmatic Injury Following Penetrating Trauma, Anthony Shiflett, Joe DuBose, and Demetrios Demetriades
Blunt Liver Injury, Leslie Kobayashi, Donald Green, and Peter Rhee
Blunt Splenic Injury, Amy D Wyrzykowski and David V Feliciano
Penetrating Renal Injuries, Rao R Ivatury
Blunt Pancreaticoduodenal Injury, Nasim Ahmed and Jerome J Vernick
Penetrating Colon Injury, Aaron Winnick and Patricia O’Neill
Rectal injury with Pelvic Fracture, Kimberly K Nagy
Abdominal Aortic Injury, Gainosuke Sugiyama and Asher Hirshberg

Blunt Pelvic Fracture with Hemoperitoneum, John H Adamski II and Thomas M Scalea
The Mangled Extremity, Samuel C Schecter, Scott L Hansen, and William P Schecter
Damage Control Laparotomy, Brett H Waibel and Michael F Rotondo
The Pulseless Trauma Patient, Reuven Rabinovici and Horacio Hojman
Related Blast Injury, Gidon Almogy, Howard Belzberg, and Avraham I Rivkind
Pediatric Blunt Trauma, Sarah J McPartland, Carl-Christian A Jackson, and Brian F Gilchrist
Blunt Trauma in Pregnancy, Amy D Wyrzykowski and Grace S Rozycki

Surgical Critical Care
Acute Respiratory Failure, Randall Friese
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, Fredric M Pieracci, Jennifer Dore, and Philip S Barie
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Nabil Issa and Michael Shapiro
Weaning and Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation, Walter Cholewczynski and Michael Ivy
Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism, Wesley D McMillian and Frederick B Rogers
Shock, Jill Cherry-Bukowiec and Lena M Napolitano
Perioperative Management of a Patient Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery, Roxie M Albrecht and Jason S Lees
Postoperative Cardiac Arrhythmias, Scott C Brakenridge and Joseph P Minei

Oliguria, Heather L Evans and Eileen M Bulger
Hyponatremia in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Christine C Wyrick
Glycemic Control in the Critically Ill Surgical Patient, Stanley A Nasraway and Jeffrey Lee
Postoperative Anemia: Risks, Benefits, and Triggers for Blood Transfusion, Matthew D Neal, Samuel A Tisherman, and Jason L Sperry
Nutritional Considerations in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Chaitanya Dahagam and Steven E Wolf
Pain, Agitation, and Delirum, Aviram Giladi and Bryan A Cotton
Care of the Potential Organ Donor, Carrie A Sims and Patrick Reilly
End of Life Care in the ICU: Ethical Considerations a Family-Centered, Multidisciplinary Approach, Felix Y Lui, Mark D Siegel, and Stanley Rosenbaum
Acute Trauma-Related Coagulopathy, Bryan A Cotton and John B Holcomb
Adrenal Insufficiency in Critical Illness, Carrie A Sims and Vicente Gracias
Sepsis, Philip A Efron and Craig M Coopersmith
Catheter-Related Infections, Spiros G Frangos and Heidi L Frankel
Special Populations in Trauma, Kimberly M Lumpkins and Grant V Bochicchio
Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit, Kazuhide Matsushima and Heidi L Frankel

Surgical Emergencies
Appendicitis, John W Mah
Bariatric Surgery Complications, Terrence M Fullum and Patricia L Turner
Diverticulitis, Carrie Allison, Daniel Herzig, and Robert Martindale
Perforated Peptic Ulcers, Meredith S Tinti and Stanley Z Trooskin
Acute Mesenteric Ischemia, Daniel T Dempsey
Acute Cholecystitis, Adam D Fox and John P Pryor CS†
Acute Pancreatitis, Pamela A Lipsett
Incarcerated Femoral and Inguinal Hernias, Robert T Brautigam
Esophageal Perforation, Alykhan S Nagji, Christine L Lau, and Benjamin D Kozower
Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Kimberly Joseph
Acute Lower GI Hemorrhage, Amanda Ayers and Jeffrey L Cohen
Perirectal and Perineal Sepsis, Frederick D Cason and Yazan Duwayri
Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections, Lisa Ferrigno and Andre Campbell
Acute Intestinal Obstruction, Pierre E de Delva and David L Berger
Anastomotic Leak and Postoperative Abscess, Peter A Pappas and Ernest FJ Block
Anesthesia for Bedside Surgical Procedures, Richard P Dutton
Acute Care Surgery in Immunocompromised Patients, Richard J Rohrer
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Primer for the Acute Care Surgeon, Louis DiFazio and George A Perdrizet
Trauma and Surgical Critical Care System Issues, Alan Cook and Heidi L Frankel
Index

Biography

Reuven Rabinovici MD, Chief, Trauma Division, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Heidi L Frankel MD, Chief, Division of Trauma and Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery; Director, Shock Trauma Center, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA; Charlene J. Smith Endowed Professor of Surgery, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA.

Orlando Kirton MD, Professor of Surgery, Vice- Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA; the Ludwig J. Pyrtek, M.D. Chair in Surgery Director of Surgery, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut, USA.

With an Introduction by Timothy C Fabian, MD, Wilson Alumni Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.