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• Title:The trauma manual : trauma and acute care surgery / editors, Andrew B. Peitzman, MD, Mark M. Ravitch professor, Chief, Trauma and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA [and four others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Peitzman, Andrew B.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2013]
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WO39 .T7768 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Traumatology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Wounds and injuries--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Surgical emergencies--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  
• Medical Subjects: Wounds and Injuries--surgery.
  Critical Care--methods.
  Emergency Medicine--methods.
  Traumatology--methods.
  
• Genre/Form: Handbooks and manuals.
  
• Edition:Fourth edition.
  
• Description:xxi, 798 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Series:Lippincott manual.
  
• Summary:No member of the emergency room or trauma ward physician should be without this 4th edition of The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Designed to be used as a quick reference, this multidisciplinary pocket guide addresses all areas of trauma and emergency surgery with a list of key points at the end of each chapter. In addition to a new section on the intensive care unit and an extended section on surgical emergencies, this manual also covers GI hemorrhage, hernias, bowel obstruction, pancreatitis, biliary tract disease, and other surgical challenges faced by trauma and emergency surgery personnel. Organized in a chronological fashion following the usual events and phases of care after injury or acute surgical illness, this user-friendly manual is one guide every trauma surgeon, surgical resident, surgical critical care specialist, emergency medicine physician, and emergency or trauma nurse, will want to keep close by. There is an additional section on the intensive care unit. Extended section on surgical emergencies, 5 new chapters covering: acute respiratory failure, cardiovascular disease and monitoring, multiple organ dysfunction, soft tissue infections and the role of laparoscopy in emergency surgery.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781451116793 (softcover)
  1451116799 (softcover)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction to Trauma Care / J. Wayne Meredith
  2. Physiologic Response to Injury / Luke P.H. Leenen
  3. Airway Management and Anesthesia / Donald M. Yealy
  4. Initial Assessment and Resuscitation / Michael Kalina
  5. Shock / Timothy R. Billiar
  6. Damage Control Surgery / Michael F. Rotondo
  7. Blood and Transfusion / Robert C. Mackersie
  8. Nutritional Intervention / Juan B. Ochoa
  9. Prehospital and Air Medical Care / David C. Cone
  10. Team Activation and Organization / William S. Hoff
  11. Imaging of Trauma Patients / Asim F. Choudhri
  12. Interventional Radiology / J. Scott Williams
  13. Sepsis in Trauma / Derek C. Angus
  14. Infections, Antibiotic Prevention, and Antibiotic Management / Soumitra R. Eachempati
  15. Trauma Pain Management / Donald M. Yealy
  16. Venous Thromboembolism / Mark Cipolle
  17. Operating Room Practice / Michael Rhodes
  18. Disasters, Mass Casualty Incidents / Susan M. Briggs
  19. Injury Prevention / Charles C. Branas
  20. Rehabilitation / Gary N. Galang
  21A. Trauma in Children / C. William Schwab
  21B. Trauma in Pregnant Women / C. William Schwab
  21C. Trauma in Older Adults / C. William Schwab
  22. Introduction to Trauma: Mechanism of Injury / L.D. Britt
  23. Traumatic Brain Injury / Peter D. Le Roux
  24. Maxillofacial Injury / Mark W. Ochs
  25. Spinal Cord and Spinal Column / Neil R. Malhotra
  26. Ophthalmic Injuries / Donald M. Yealy
  27. Neck Trauma / Martin A. Croce
  28. Thoracic Injuries / Thai Vu
  29. Abdominal Trauma / Andrew B. Peitzman
  30. Genitourinary Injuries / Hunter Wessells
  31. Orthopedic Trauma, Fractures, and Dislocations / L. Scott Levin
  32. Peripheral Vascular Injuries / Timothy C. Fabian
  33. Burns/Inhalation Injury / James H. Holmes IV
  34. Priorities in the ICU Care of the Adult Trauma Patient / Soumitra R. Eachempati
  35. Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome / Frederick A. Moore
  36. Cardiovascular Disease and Monitoring / Thomas M. Scalea
  37. Acute Kidney Injury / John A. Kellum
  38. Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation / Lena M. Napolitano
  39. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, Open Abdomen, Enterocutaneous Fistulae / Rao R. Ivatury
  40. Liver Failure / Deanna Blisard
  41. Support of the Organ Donor / C. William Schwab
  42. Accidental and Therapeutic Hypothermia, Cold Injury, and Drowning / Samuel A. Tisherman
  43. Introduction to Emergency General Surgery: Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen / David V. Feliciano
  44. Preparation, Initial Resuscitation, and Management of the Patient for Emergency Operation / George C. Velmahos
  45. Acute Abdomen in ICU Patients / Matthew R. Rosengart
  46. Bowel Obstruction / Raul Coimbra
  47. Gastrointestinal Bleeding / A. James Moser
  48. Acute Pancreatitis / Ari K. Leppaniemi
  49. Biliary Tract Disease / Benjamin Braslow
  50. Appendicitis / C. William Schwab
  51. Esophagus, Stomach, and Duodenum / James D. Luketich
  52. Inflammatory Diseases of the Intestines / Brian S. Zuckerbraun
  53. Acute Anorectal Pain / Frederick J. Denstman
  54. Soft Tissue Infection / Babak Sarani
  55. Vascular Emergencies / Christopher H. Byrne
  56. Hernias / Timothy C. Fabian
  57. Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies / Glenn Updike
  58. Laparoscopic Treatment of the Acute Abdomen / Mousa Khoursheed
  59. Miscellaneous Procedures / Frederick Giberson
  60. Scoring for Injury and Emergency Surgery / John Fildes.