Diagnostic Imaging in Acute Care Surgery
CHAPTER 9 DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING IN ACUTE CARE SURGERY BEHROZE A. VACHHA, LEO L. TSAI, KAREN S. LEE, AND MARC A. CAMACHO The management of acute care surgical patients, as that…
Inflammatory Conditions of the Gastrointestinal Tract
CHAPTER 35 INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT MATTHEW SCHUCHERT, VAISHALI SCHUCHERT, AND BRIAN ZUCKERBRAUN INFLAMMATORY EMERGENCIES OF THE ESOPHAGUS Acute, inflammatory conditions of the esophagus requiring urgent treatment are…
Hematologic Abnormalities, Coagulopathy, and Transfusion Therapy
CHAPTER 10 HEMATOLOGIC ABNORMALITIES, COAGULOPATHY, AND TRANSFUSION THERAPY LENA M. NAPOLITANO HEMATOLOGIC ABNORMALITIES Red Blood Cell Disorders Anemia Anemia is common in critically ill and injured patients admitted to the intensive…
Surgical Infections of Skin and Soft Tissue
CHAPTER 43 SURGICAL INFECTIONS OF SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE VANESSA P. HO, SOUMITRA R. EACHEMPATI, AND PHILIP S. BARIE Infections of skin and soft tissue (SSTI) encompass a diverse set…
Genitourinary Trauma
CHAPTER 29 GENITOURINARY TRAUMA BRADLEY A. ERICKSON AND JACK W. MCANINCH RENAL TRAUMA Epidemiology Trauma patients suffer renal injury at rates of 1.4%-3.25% with proportionally higher rates seen in younger…
Antibiotic Use and Misuse
CHAPTER 13 ANTIBIOTIC USE AND MISUSE PHILIP S. BARIE AND VANESSA P. HO Traditionally, surgeons were only involved with infections that required invasive measures for treatment (e.g., complicated intra-abdominal infections…
Acute Care Surgery: General Principles
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES CHAPTER 1 ACUTE CARE SURGERY: GENERAL PRINCIPLES L.D. BRITT ACUTE CARE SURGERY-GENERAL PRINCIPLES Expedient assessment/intervention is the paramount axiom of acute care surgery management. This in no way…
Spinal Column and Spinal Cord Injury
CHAPTER 24 SPINAL COLUMN AND SPINAL CORD INJURY KHALID M. ABBED AND KIMBERLY A. DAVIS Injuries to the spine, including injuries to the vertebral column, ligaments, and cord, are common….
Acute Kidney Injury
CHAPTER 52 ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY SOUMITRA R. EACHEMPATI, FRANK LIU, AND PHILIP S. BARIE The functions of the kidney can be divided into secretion of hormones and maintaining the extracellular…
