CHAPTER 59 EXSANGUINATION: RELIABLE MODELS TO INDICATE DAMAGE CONTROL Alicia M. Mohr, Juan A. Asensio, Tamer Karsidag, Luis Manuel García-Núñez, Patrizio Petrone, Amanda J. Morehouse, Alexander D. Vara, John S….
CHAPTER 86 FUNDAMENTALS OF MECHANICAL VENTILATION Soumitra R. Eachempati, Marc J. Shapiro, Philip S. Barie Mechanical ventilation is often required to manage trauma or critical illness, whether for airway protection,…
CHAPTER 107 TRAUMA OUTCOMES Michael Rhodes, Glen Tinkoff All surgeons who care for patients with injury are subject to increased scrutiny relative to the outcomes of their patients. In fact,…
CHAPTER 63 THE DIAGNOSIS OF VASCULAR TRAUMA John T. Anderson, F. William Blaisdell The diagnosis of vascular trauma is usually not a problem, as most injuries manifest overt blood loss,…
CHAPTER 104 PALLIATIVE CARE IN THE TRAUMA INTENSIVE CARE UNIT Anne C. Mosenthal Despite many recent advances in trauma resuscitation and surgery, surgeons continue to care for critically injured patients…
CHAPTER 45 DIAGNOSTIC PERITONEAL LAVAGE AND LAPAROSCOPY IN EVALUATION OF ABDOMINAL TRAUMA R. Stephen Smith, John A. Aucar, William R. Fry Before 1965, lavage of the peritoneal cavity had a…
CHAPTER 37 TRACHEAL AND TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE INJURIES Preston Roy Miller, J. Wayne Meredith For most of history, acute tracheobronchial injuries have been considered uniformly fatal. In 1871, Winslow observed a…
CHAPTER 100 DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS: DRUGS AND FILTERS Felicia A. Ivascu, George D. Garcia The association between injury and venous thromboembolic events is well accepted in…
CHAPTER 42 TREATMENT OF ESOPHAGEAL INJURY A. Britton Christmas, J. David Richardson The treatment of esophageal perforations remains controversial, with uncertainty surrounding several aspects of surgical management: the preferred method…
CHAPTER 35 DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC ROLES OF BRONCHOSCOPY AND VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACOSCOPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THORACIC TRAUMA Ajai K. Malhotra, Michel B. Aboutanos, Rao Ivatury, Therese M. Duane Direct injury…
