Acute Care Surgery and Trauma: Evidence-Based Practice, Second Edition

Acute Care Surgery and Trauma: Evidence-Based Practice discusses important surgical management approaches and clinical decision making based on scientific evidence found in the published literature.The first edition of this book represented a breakthrough in the discipline by establishing evidence-based guidelines for practitioners. Now updated and

Table of Contents:
TRAUMA. Patient Safety in the Care of Trauma Patients. Evidence-Based Injury Prevention Strategies. Trauma Systems. Evidence-Based Surgery: Military Injury Outcomes. Evidence-Based Surgery: Traumatized Airway. Monitoring of the Trauma Patient. Resuscitation of the Trauma Patient. Diagnosis of Injury in the Trauma Patient. Evidence-Based Approach to Damage Control Laparotomy. Evidence-Based Surgery: Coagulopathy in the Trauma Patient. Traumatic Brain Injury. Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries. Facial Injuries. Ocular Trauma: An Evidence-Based Approach to Evaluation and Management. Neck Trauma. Emergency Thoracotomy. Chest Wall Trauma. Evidence-Based Surgery: Injury to the Thoracic Great Vessels. Cardiac Trauma. Injury to the Esophagus, Trachea, and Bronchus. An Evidence-Based Approach to Spleen Injury. Injury to the Liver. Small Bowel and Colon Injuries. Diaphragmatic Injuries. Pancreatic and Duodenal Injuries. Abdominal Vascular Trauma. Evidence-Based Approach to Pregnant Trauma Patients. Pelvic Fractures. Evidence-Based Approach to Extremity Vascular Trauma. Surgery of Upper Extremity. Lower Extremity Injury. Limb Salvage for the Mangled Extremity. Critical Questions in Support of the Burned Patient. Inhalation Injury. Electrical, Cold, and Chemical Injuries. Evidence-Based Wound Care Management. Viperidae Snakebite Envenomation. Evidence-Based Surgery: War Wounds. Evidence-Based Surgery: Pediatric Trauma. Evidence-Based Approach to Geriatric Trauma. Rural Trauma. Evidence-Based Management of Genitourinary Trauma. SURGICAL EMERGENCIES. Small Bowel Surgery. Evidence-Based Approach to Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Peptic Ulcer Disease. Enterocutaneous Fistulas. Paraesophageal Hernia Repair. Appendicitis: Evidence-Based Medicine. Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Diverticular Disease of the Colon. Large Bowel Obstruction. Acute and Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia. Ogilvie's Syndrome and Colonic Volvulus. Hemorrhoids. Anal Fissure, Fistula, and Abs

About the Author :
Edited by Stephen M. Cohn, MD, Staten Island University Hospital, New York, USA Matthew O. Dolich, MD, University of California, Irvine, USA Kenji Inaba, MD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Review :
"Chapters are clearly written and open with an outline before proceeding to presentations involving questions related to patient management. For each question, a summary of evidence is provided with a brief paragraph indicating recommendations. Excellent use is made of tables that summarize questions posed in each chapter…This book can be recommended for the literature reviewed and the breadth of the questions asked." - David J. Dries, MD (University of Minnesota Medical School), Doody's Book Review Service "… should be in the library of every medical school, every department of surgery, and every surgeon." —SirReadaLot.org "Chapters are clearly written and open with an outline before proceeding to presentations involving questions related to patient management. For each question, a summary of evidence is provided with a brief paragraph indicating recommendations. Excellent use is made of tables that summarize questions posed in each chapter…This book can be recommended for the literature reviewed and the breadth of the questions asked." - David J. Dries, MD(University of Minnesota Medical School), Doody Enterprises "… should be in the library of every medical school, every department of surgery, and every surgeon." —SirReadaLot.org