CHAPTER 87 ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN MECHANICAL VENTILATION Mark M. Melendez, Marc J. Shapiro, Soumitra R. Eachempati, Philip S. Barie Since the introduction of mechanical ventilation using a bicycle tire and…
CHAPTER 53 ABDOMINAL VASCULAR INJURIES Thomas J. Goaley, David V. Feliciano Abdominal vascular injuries remain among the most lethal of injuries that the trauma surgeon will encounter. The successful management…
CHAPTER 75 AIRWAY MANAGEMENT IN THE TRAUMA PATIENT: HOW TO INTUBATE AND MANAGE NEUROMUSCULAR PARALYTIC AGENTS Ola Harrskog, Per-Olof Jarnberg Injury is the leading cause of death in persons between…
CHAPTER 25 TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: IMAGING, OPERATIVE AND NONOPERATIVE CARE, AND COMPLICATIONS Alex B. Valadka, Mark J. Dannenbaum The previous chapter described pathophysiology and initial management of traumatic brain injury…
CHAPTER 106 TRAUMA REHABILITATION Wayne Dubov, Michael M. Badellino, Michael D. Pasquale In 2002, unintentional injury was the most common cause of death between the ages of 1 and 44…
CHAPTER 41 THORACIC VASCULAR INJURY Danny Chu, Matthew J. Wall, Kenneth Mattox One of the earliest reports of thoracic vascular injury was described by Vesalius in 1557 of a fatal,…
CHAPTER 23 ENDPOINTS OF RESUSCITATION Michael Englehart, Brandon Tieu, Martin Schreiber The optimal endpoint of resuscitation has been debated since the early 20th century when Cannon espoused his controversial viewpoints…
CHAPTER 96 NOSOCOMIAL PNEUMONIA D. Brandon Williams, Amritha Raghunathan, David A. Spain, Susan I. Brundage The two broad classes of pneumonia are nosocomial and community-acquired pneumonia. Nosocomial pneumonia is often…
CHAPTER 95 THE IMMUNOLOGY OF TRAUMA S. Rob Todd, Christine S. Cocanour Following trauma, the immune system is called into action by signals from injured tissues. Injuries, hypoxia, and hypotension,…
