Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, 3rd Edition, is a comprehensive guide to optimal treatment and post-operative management of traumatic injuries. It covers the entire spectrum of Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, from initial evaluation to diagnosis, operative, and postoperative critical care and outcomes. It features extensive new data and updates to Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular, and Military Surgery chapters, as well as numerous new intraoperative photographs and high-quality line drawings. It also incorporates a wealth of military knowledge from recent and past military conflicts, as well as from asymmetric warfare. It uses a consistent, easy-to-follow chapter format throughout, for quick and easy reference and review. It reviews the essential principles of diagnosis and treatment, as well as the specifics of surgical therapy, making it useful for surgeons across all specialties. It also integrates evidence-based practice guidelines into the text whenever possible, as well as comprehensive utilization of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma - Organ Injury Scales (AAST-OIS). An eBook version is included with purchase, allowing you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.

Format: Hardback
Length: 912 pages
Publication date: 12 June 2023
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with Essential Purchase designation in General Surgery, Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, 3rd Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of optimal treatment and post-operative management of traumatic injuries. Written by master world-renowned trauma surgeons, this practical and concise reference highlights the most important aspects of urgent surgical care, from damage control to noninvasive techniques to chemical and biological injuries. It is an excellent resource for quick review before entering the operating room and a valuable review tool for board certification or recertification. The book covers the entire spectrum of Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, from initial evaluation to diagnosis, operative, and postoperative critical care and outcomes, in nearly 100 print and 39 online-exclusive chapters. It has been streamlined to emphasize frontline procedural treatment and features extensive new data and updates to Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular, and Military Surgery chapters, as well as numerous new intraoperative photographs and high-quality line drawings that highlight the most important aspects of urgent surgical care. The book also includes 14 new chapters, such as Innovations in Trauma Surgery Simulation, Air Evacuation and Critical Care in Military Casualties, REBOA: Indications and Controversies, Penetrating Extracranial Vertebral Artery, Penetrating Arterio-Venous Fistulas, The Genomics of Profound Shock and Trauma, ECMO, and newer strategies, such as nerve blocks for pain management to combat the opioid epidem.

Weight: 2784g
Dimension: 285 x 225 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780323697873
Edition number: 3 ed