CHAPTER 8 DELIVERING MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAUMA CARE: CURRENT CHALLENGES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS Fahim Habib, Eddy H. Carrillo The origins of trauma care delivery are deeply rooted in the major military conflicts…
CHAPTER 55 GENITOURINARY TRACT INJURY Charles D. Best KIDNEY INJURY The most common indication of kidney injury on assessment in the emergency department is the presence of gross or microhematuria….
CHAPTER 27 MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES Guy J. Cappuccino, Samuel T. Rhee, Mark S. Granick While facial injuries may be dramatic in appearance, they are infrequently life threatening, and often not the…
CHAPTER 13 BLAST INJURIES Antonio Pepe, Booker T. King, Alexander Becker, Guy Lin, Tedla Tessema, Mauricio Lynn, Eduard Grass Blast injury is unique in that it combines the mechanisms of…
CHAPTER 30 CAROTID, VERTEBRAL ARTERY, AND JUGULAR VENOUS INJURIES Vincent L. Rowe, Patrizio Petrone, Luis Manuel García-Núñez, Juan A. Asensio CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES Over the centuries, management of carotid artery…
CHAPTER 16 COMMON PREHOSPITAL COMPLICATIONS AND PITFALLS IN THE TRAUMA PATIENT Frank L. Mitchell, Charles M. Richart, Harry E. Wilkins The evolution of prehospital care in this country has an…
CHAPTER 2 TRAUMA CENTER ORGANIZATION AND VERIFICATION Brian Eastridge, Erwin Thal The development of trauma care has evolved from a synergistic relationship between the military and civilian medical environments for…
CHAPTER 1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRAUMA SYSTEMS Donald D. Trunkey Modern trauma care consists of three primary components: prehospital care, acute surgical care or hospital care, and rehabilitation. Ideally, a…
CHAPTER 11 PREHOSPITAL FLUID RESUSCITATION: WHAT TYPE, HOW MUCH, AND CONTROVERSIES Mark Newell, Vincente Gracias, Michael Rotondo Fluid resuscitation is a vital treatment in the care of hypotensive trauma patients….
