TRAUMA SURGERY ESSENTIALS. A MUST-KNOW GUIDE TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

PART A. EMERGENT EVALUATION OF THE TRAUA PATIENTS
• SECTION I. INITIAL EVALUATION
Chapter 1: The Vicious cycle of trauma
Chapter 2: Death in trauma patients
Chapter 3: Process of evaluation of trauma patients
Chapter 4: Primary survey & Resuscitation
• SECTION II. MANAGEMENT OF AIRWAY
Chapter 5: Definitive airway
Chapter 6: Endotracheal intubation
Chapter 7: Extra-glottic devices in failed intubation
Chapter 8: Emergency surgical airway
• SECTION III. MANAGEMENT OF BREATHING
Chapter 9: Compromised Breathing & Ventilation
Chapter 10: Procedures for compromised breathing
• SECTION IV. MANAGEMENT OF CIRCULATION
Chapter 11: Assessment and Management of shock
Chapter 12: Pathophysiology of hemorrhagic shock
Chapter 13: Manifestation of hemorrhagic shock
Chapter 14: Differential diagnosis of shock in trauma patients
Chapter 15: Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome(SIRS), Sepsis & Septic Shock
Chapter 16: Principles of management of hemorrhagic shock
Chapter 17: Access for fluid resuscitation
Chapter 18: Resuscitation fluid
Chapter 19: Balanced resuscitation
Chapter 20: Use of Blood and Blood products
Chapter 21: Control of bleeding
Chapter 22: Viscoelastic Hemostatic Assay
Chapter 23: Resuscitative Endoluminal Balloon Occlusion of Aorta (REBOA)
Chapter 24: Monitoring of Resuscitation

PART B. MANAGEMENT OF SPECIFIC TRAUMA PROBLEMS
• SECTION V. MANAGEMENT OF HEAD TRAUMA
Chapter 25: Evaluation of head injury
Chapter 26: Types of brain injury
Chapter 27: Intracranial pressure monitoring
Chapter 28: Non- surgical management of traumatic brain injury
Chapter 29: Surgical management of traumatic brain injury
Chapter 30: Brain death
Chapter 31: Scalp laceration
Chapter 32: Skull fracture
Chapter 33: Facial fracture
• SECTION VI. MANAGEMENT OF SPINE TRAUMA
Chapter 34: Cervical spine clearance in blunt injury
Chapter 35: Blunt cerebrovascular injury
Chapter 36: Cervical spine injuries
Chapter 37: Thoracolumbar spine injury
Chapter 38: Spinal cord injury
• SECTION VII. NECK TRAUMA
Chapter 39: Blunt neck trauma
Chapter 40: Penetrating neck trauma
• SECTION VIII. CHEST TRAUMA
Chapter 41: Chest wall injury
Chapter 42: Lung and tracheobronchial injury
Chapter 43: Thoracic vascular injury
Chapter 44: Esophageal injury
Chapter 45: Damage control thoracotomy
• SECTION IX. ABDOMINAL TRAUMA
Chapter 46: Management of hemodynamically unstable abdominal (Blunt/Penetrating) trauma
Chapter 47: Damage control exploratory laparotomy
Chapter 48: Temporary abdominal closure
Chapter 49: Exposure of retroperitoneum
Chapter 50: Management of liver injury
Chapter 51: Management of pancreatic injury
Chapter 52: Management of spleen injury
Chapter 53 : Management of stomach injury
Chapter 54: Management of duodenal injury
Chapter 55: Management of small bowel injury
Chapter 56: Management of colorectal injury
Chapter 57: Management of retroperitoneal vascular injury
Chapter 58: Management of pelvic bleeding
Chapter 59: Management of urogenital injury
• SECTION X. PERIPHERAL VASCULAR INJURY
Chapter 60: Management of upper extremity vascular injury
Chapter 61: Management of lower extremity vascular injury
• SECTION XI. MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY
Chapter 62: Management of pelvic fracture
Chapter 63: Management of extremities fractures
Chapter 64: Classification of musculoskeletal injuries
Chapter 65: Compartment syndrome
Chapter 66: Amputations
• SECTION XII. MISCELLANEOUS
Chapter 67: Trauma in the extremes of age
Chapter 68: Trauma in pregnancy
Chapter 69: Scoring systems in trauma

Time is of the essence in the effective management of trauma patients, requiring quick evaluation, immediate lifesaving procedures, and a definitive treatment of a wide variety of injuries. Trauma Surgery Essentials: A Must-Know Guide to Emergency Management has been written and designed to provide need-to-know information in a visually appealing, easy-to-read format. Expert trauma surgeon Dr. Anil K. Srivastava has identified the essential trauma surgery facts and procedures you must know, based on authoritative textbooks, practice guidelines, and current peer-reviewed journals, and compiled all of this information into a handy guide, ideal for quick reference at the point of care.

Features:
• Covers the emergent evaluation and management of trauma patients, as well as the emergency management of specific injuries.
• Uses an easy-to-digest, bullet-point format to convey information in a way that’s easy to follow and understand.
• Contains dozens of full-color illustrations that focus on surgical anatomy and surgical procedures, as well as numerous algorithms that aid in surgical decision making.
• A valuable resource for medical students, trainee surgical residents, trauma surgery fellows, general surgeons, trauma surgeons, ER physicians, and midlevel providers, as well as other non-surgical physicians who are interested in the management of trauma patients.
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows 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.

Author
Anil K. Srivastava, MD, FRCS (Edin.; United Kingdom), FACS (USA)