Abdominal Trauma
CHAPTER 28 ABDOMINAL TRAUMA JUAN ASENSIO, AURELIO RODRIGUEZ, GRACIELA BAUZA, T. VU, F. MAZZINI, F. HERRERIAS, AND ANDREW B. PEITZMAN Evaluation and management of complex abdominal injury can challenge even…
Cardiovascular Failure and Circulatory Support—Monitoring and Essential Adjuncts
CHAPTER 50 CARDIOVASCULAR FAILURE AND CIRCULATORY SUPPORT—MONITORING AND ESSENTIAL ADJUNCTS JOHN A. MORRIS, MICKEY OTT, FITZGERALD J. CASIMIR, WALTER K. CLAIR, AND MARK GLAZER The acute care surgery patient is…
Scoring Systems for Injury and Emergency General Surgery
CHAPTER 63 SCORING SYSTEMS FOR INJURY AND EMERGENCY GENERAL SURGERY SHAWN NESSEN AND JOHN FILDES SCORING SYSTEMS FOR INJURY Introduction Modern injury severity scoring is an important aspect of managing…
Mechanical Ventilator Support
CHAPTER 49 MECHANICAL VENTILATOR SUPPORT MARC J. SHAPIRO AND BRIAN M. HALL The respiratory system is responsible for both oxygenation and ventilation. Oxygenation is the ability to provide oxygen to…
Basic Operative Techniques in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
CHAPTER 5 BASIC OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES IN TRAUMA AND ACUTE CARE SURGERY RAO R. IVATURY Trauma and acute care surgery is an exciting field that offers a wide spectrum of operative…
Ophthalmic Injury
CHAPTER 25 OPHTHALMIC INJURY FRANCIS L. COUNSELMAN AND SHANNON M. McCOLE Hippocrates was the first person to record the association between facial trauma and blindness.1 Trauma is responsible for bilateral…
Prehospital Trauma Care
CHAPTER 16 PREHOSPITAL TRAUMA CARE NORMAN E. MCSWAIN JR This chapter is divided into two parts: the first is what the acute care surgeon (ACS) needs to know about the…
The Immunocompromised Patient
CHAPTER 56 THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT UROGHUPATEI P. IYEGHA AND GREGORY J. BEILMAN Immunocompromised patients present a special challenge to the acute care surgeon. Although transplant recipients, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected…
Nosocomial Infections
CHAPTER 54 NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS PAMELA A. LIPSETT In order to help the clinician make decisions about empiric antibiotic selection, the classification of infections has typically been divided into the site…
