Acute Care Surgery comprehensively presents the full spectrum of surgical emergencies, which include trauma and non-traumatic acute surgical diseases of the:

• abdominal
• pelvic
• cardiothoracic organs
• extremities
• skin and soft tissue
• head and neck

Acute Care Surgery features:

• over 40 chapters complete with case studies
• question and answer commentaries
• more than 500 tables and illustrations

Contents

General Principles

1. Initial Assessment and Early Rescuscitation
2. The Operating Theater for Acute Care Surgery
3. Anesthesia and Acute Care Surgery
4. Fundamental Operative Approaches in Acute Care Surgery
5. The Perioperative Management of the Acute Care Surgical Patient
6. The Hemodynamically Labile Patient: Cardiovascular Adjuncts and Assist Devices
7. Principles and Practice of Nutriontinal Support for Surgical Patients
8. The Intensive Care Unit: The Next-Generation Operating Room
9. Burns
10. Electrical and Lighting Injuries
11. Soft Tissue Infections
12. The Open Abdomen: Management from Initial Laparotomy to Definitive Closure
13. Acute Care Surgery and the Elderly
14. Acute Care Surgery in the Rural Setting
15. Prehospital Care in the Acute Setting
16. Disaster and Mass Casualty Management
17. Principles of Injury Prevention and Control
18. Education: Surgical Simulation in Acute Care Surgery

Organ-Based Approach

19. Pharynx and Larynx
20. Head and Neck: Pediatrics
21. Esophagus
22. Central Nervous System
23. Chest Wall
24. Lungs and Pleura
25. Heart
26. Thoracic Aorta
27. Diaphragm
28. Abdominal Wall
29. Foregut
30. Small Intestine
31. Liver and Biliary Tract
32. Pancreas
33. Spleen
34. Intraabdominal Vasculature
35. Colon and Rectum
36. Urogenital Tract
37. Pelvis
38. Lower Extremities
39. Hand and Upper Extremities
40. Peripheral Vasculature

Administration, Ethics, and Law

41. Understanding the Latest Changes in EMTALA: Our Country's Emergency Care Safety Net
42. Informed Surgical Consent
43. Advance Directives
44. The Nonviable Patient and Organ Procurement
45. Ethical Dilemmas and the Law

System and Curriculum Development

46. Development of a Regional System for Surgical Emergencies (RSSE)
47. Acute Care Surgery: A Proposed Curriculum
48. Emergency General Surgery: The Vanderbilt Model

The International Communities

49. Acute Care Surgery: United Kingdom
50. Acute Care Surgery: Australia
51. Acute Care Surgery: Japan

Index

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