Mechanical Ventilator Support
CHAPTER 49 MECHANICAL VENTILATOR SUPPORT MARC J. SHAPIRO AND BRIAN M. HALL The respiratory system is responsible for both oxygenation and ventilation. Oxygenation is the ability to provide oxygen to…
Basic Operative Techniques in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
CHAPTER 5 BASIC OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES IN TRAUMA AND ACUTE CARE SURGERY RAO R. IVATURY Trauma and acute care surgery is an exciting field that offers a wide spectrum of operative…
Ophthalmic Injury
CHAPTER 25 OPHTHALMIC INJURY FRANCIS L. COUNSELMAN AND SHANNON M. McCOLE Hippocrates was the first person to record the association between facial trauma and blindness.1 Trauma is responsible for bilateral…
Prehospital Trauma Care
CHAPTER 16 PREHOSPITAL TRAUMA CARE NORMAN E. MCSWAIN JR This chapter is divided into two parts: the first is what the acute care surgeon (ACS) needs to know about the…
The Immunocompromised Patient
CHAPTER 56 THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT UROGHUPATEI P. IYEGHA AND GREGORY J. BEILMAN Immunocompromised patients present a special challenge to the acute care surgeon. Although transplant recipients, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected…
Nosocomial Infections
CHAPTER 54 NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS PAMELA A. LIPSETT In order to help the clinician make decisions about empiric antibiotic selection, the classification of infections has typically been divided into the site…
Acute Care Surgery: Skeletal and Soft-Tissue Injury
CHAPTER 30 ACUTE CARE SURGERY: SKELETAL AND SOFT-TISSUE INJURY GUSTAVO X. CORDERO, GARY S. GRUEN, PETER A. SISKA, AND IVAN S. TARKIN Expert care of musculoskeletal injury in the polytrauma…
Maxillofacial Injuries
CHAPTER 23 MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES NATHANIEL MCQUAY JR AND DANIEL LADER Maxillofacial trauma encompasses injuries to the soft tissue and skeletal and visceral organs of the face. Fractures occur when forces…
Acute Pancreatitis
CHAPTER 38 ACUTE PANCREATITIS PATRICIO POLANCO AND STEVEN J. HUGHES Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory process readily diagnosed by the combination of epigastric abdominal pain, abnormal elevation of pancreatic…
