CHAPTER 60 SURGICAL TECHNIQUES FOR THORACIC, ABDOMINAL, PELVIC, AND EXTREMITY DAMAGE CONTROL Kimberly A. Davis, Frederick A. Luchette Injury severity and spectrums of injury have continually evolved, resulting in greater…
CHAPTER 58 CURRENT CONCEPTS IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK Juan Carlos Puyana, Samuel A. Tisherman, Andrew B. Peitzman The precipitating single common factor of hemorrhagic shock is…
CHAPTER 14 PREHOSPITAL CARE OF BIOLOGICAL AGENT–INDUCED INJURIES Kenneth G. Swan On a busy Baghdad bridge spanning the great Tigris River coursing Iraq from north to south, a crowd of…
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 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 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…
