Britt, L. D.
Acute Care Surgery
Part I. General Principles
1. Initial Assessment and Early Resuscitation
Louis H. Alarcon, Andrew B. Peitzman
2. The Operating Theater for Acute Care Surgery
Kenneth L. Mattox
3. Anesthesia and Acute Care Surgery
Omid Moayed, Richard P. Dutton
4. Fundamental Operative Approaches in Acute Care Surgery
David J. Ciesla, Ernest E. Moore
5. The Perioperative Management of the Acute Care Surgical Patient
Craig M. Coopersmith, Timothy G. Buchman
6. The Hemodynamically Labile Patient: Cardiovascular Adjuncts and Assist Devices
Edward E. Cornwell, Preeti R. John
7. Principles and Practice of Nutritional Support for Surgical Patients
Maheswari Senthil, Bobby Rupani, Jondavid H. Jabush, Edwin A. Deitch
8. The Intensive Care Unit: The Next-Generation Operating Room
Philip S. Barie, Soumitra R. Eachempati, Jian Shou
9. Burns
Basil A. Pruitt, Richard L. Gamelli
10. Electrical and Lightning Injuries
Raphael C. Lee
11. Soft Tissue Infections
Anthony A. Meyer, Jeffrey E. Abrams, Thomas L. Bosshardt, Claude H. Organ
12. The Open Abdomen: Management from Initial Laparotomy to Definitive Closure
Fred A. Luchette, Stathis J. Poulakidas, Thomas J. Esposito
13. Acute Care Surgery and the Elderly
Patrick K. Kim, Donald R. Kauder, C. William Schwab
14. Acute Care Surgery in the Rural Setting
Dana Christian Lynge, Nicholas W. Morris, John G. Hunter
15. Prehospital Care in the Acute Setting
Norman E. McSwain
16. Disaster and Mass Casualty Management
Eric R. Frykberg
17. Principles of Injury Prevention and Control
M. Margaret Knudson, Larisa S. Speetzen
18. Education: Surgical Simulation in Acute Care Surgery
Lenworth M. Jacobs, Karyl J. Burns
Part II. Organ-Based Approach
19. Pharynx and Larynx
Ernest M. Myers
20. Head and Neck: Pediatrics
Reza Rahbar, Gerald B. Healy
21. Esophagus
George C. Velmahos, Nahid Hamoui, Peter F. Crookes, Demetrios Demetriades
22. Central Nervous System
Peter B. Letarte
23. Chest Wall
John C. Mayberry, Donald D. Trunkey
24. Lungs and Pleura
Riyad Karmy-Jones, J. Wayne Meredith
25. Heart
Matthew S. Slater
26. Thoracic Aorta
Peter I. Ellman, Irving L. Kron
27. Diaphragm
Michel B. Aboutanos, Therèse M. Duane, Ajai K. Malhotra, Rao R. Ivatury
28. Abdominal Wall
Jeffrey A. Claridge, Martin A. Croce
29. Foregut
Philip E. Donahue
30. Small Intestine
Juliet Lee, Todd Ponsky, Jeffrey L. Ponsky
31. Liver and Biliary Tract
Spiros P. Hiotis, Hersch L. Pachter
32. Pancreas
Juan A. Asensio, Patrizio Petrone, L. D. Britt
33. Spleen
L. D. Britt
34. Intraabdominal Vasculature
George H. Meier, Hosam F. Sayed
35. Colon and Rectum
Herand Abcarian
36. Urogenital Tract
Nejd F. Alsikafi, Sean P. Elliott, Maurice M. Garcia, Jack W. McAninch
37. Pelvis
Craig M. Rodner, Bruce D. Browner
38. Lower Extremities
Tina A. Maxian, Michael J. Bosse
39. Hand and Upper Extremities
David T. Netscher, Idris Gharbaoui
40. Peripheral Vasculature
David V. Feliciano
Part III. Administration, Ethics, and Law
41. Understanding the Latest Changes in EMTALA: Our Country’s Emergency Care Safety Net
Thomas R. Russell
42. Informed Surgical Consent
Linda S. Laibstain, Robert C. Nusbaum
43. Advance Directives
David G. Jacobs
44. The Nonviable Patient and Organ Procurement
Frederic J. Cole, Jay N. Collins, Leonard J. Weireter
45. Ethical Dilemmas and the Law
Ira J. Kodner, Daniel M. Freeman, Robb R. Whinney, Douglas J. E. Schuerer
Part IV. System and Curriculum Development
46. Development of a Regional System for Surgical Emergencies (RSSE)
A. Brent Eastman, David B. Hoyt, J. Wayne Meredith
47. Acute Care Surgery: A Proposed Curriculum
L. D. Britt, Michael F. Rotondo
48. Emergency General Surgery: The Vanderbilt Model
José J. Diaz, Oscar D. Guillamondegui, John A. Morris
Part V. The International Communities
49. Acute Care Surgery: United Kingdom
Bernard F. Ribeiro, Simon Paterson-Brown, Murat Akyol, Michael Walsh, Andrew Sim, Christopher Aylwin
50. Acute Care Surgery: Australia
Thomas Kossmann, Ilan S. Freedman
51. Acute Care Surgery: Japan
Kyoichi Takaori, Nobuhiko Tanigawa
Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, General Surgery, Emergency Services, Traumatic Surgery, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine
- Author(s)
- Britt, L. D.
- Trunkey, Donald D.
- Feliciano, David V.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 853 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780387690124