CHAPTER 34 THORACIC WALL INJURIES: RIBS, STERNAL SCAPULAR FRACTURES, HEMOTHORACES, AND PNEUMOTHORACES Alisa Savetamal, David H. Livingston Although many chest injuries are potentially lethal, early man sustained and survived blunt…
CHAPTER 6 TRAUMA SCORING Nicole VanDerHeyden, Thomas B. Cox Trauma was the first medical specialty to regionalize health care delivery to specialized centers and to systematically measure health care outcomes….
CHAPTER 70 PELVIC FRACTURES Catherine A. Humphrey, Thomas J. Ellis Pelvic fractures are a common injury among all trauma injuries (3%). They represent a spectrum of injuries from low-energy minimally…
CHAPTER 56 GYNECOLOGIC INJURIES Areti Tillou, Patrizio Petrone TRAUMA IN PREGNANCY Gynecologic trauma includes a large variety of relatively rare and challenging injuries from blunt and penetrating mechanisms. While motor…
CHAPTER 3 INJURY SEVERITY SCORING: ITS DEFINITION AND PRACTICAL APPLICATION Turner M. Osler, Laurent G. Glance, Edward J. Bedrick The urge to prognosticate following trauma is as old as the…
CHAPTER 76 PEDIATRIC TRAUMA David W. Tuggle, L.R. Tres Scherer Pediatric trauma is the number one killer of children. It is also the number one cause of permanent disability in…
CHAPTER 93 SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME AND MULTIPLE-ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SYNDROME: DEFINITION, DIAGNOSIS, AND MANAGEMENT Anthony Watkins, Edwin A. Deitch In 1973, Tilney et al.1 described 18 patients who developed “sequential…
CHAPTER 77 TRAUMA IN PREGNANCY Amy C. Sisley, William C. Chiu The pregnant trauma patient presents significant challenges to the trauma surgeon. The physiologic changes in the mother during pregnancy…
CHAPTER 54 COLON AND RECTAL INJURIES David J. Ciesla, Jon M. Burch Surgical management of colon and rectal injuries has evolved dramatically since World War II. Accepted treatment at that…
CHAPTER 12 CIVILIAN HOSPITAL RESPONSE TO MASS CASUALTY EVENTS Rochelle A. Dicker, William P. Schecter On February 20, 1993, six people were killed and more than 1000 injured when a…
