Trauma, Critical Care and Surgical Emergencies

Reuven Rabinovici MD, Chief, Trauma Division, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Heidi L Frankel MD, Chief, Division of Trauma and Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery; Director, Shock Trauma Center, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA; Charlene J. Smith Endowed Professor of Surgery, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA.Orlando Kirton MD, Professor of Surgery, Vice- Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, USA; the Ludwig J. Pyrtek, M.D. Chair in Surgery Director of Surgery, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut, USA.With an Introduction by Timothy C Fabian, MD, Wilson Alumni Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

• Trauma: Fluid Resuscitation for the Trauma Patient, Complex Airway, Major Blunt Head Injury, Minor Blunt Head Injury in the Intoxicated Patient, Stab Wound to the Carotid Artery, Cervical Spine Fracture with Quadriplegia, Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury, Transmediastinal Penetrating Trauma, Diaphragmatic Injury Following Penetrating Trauma, Blunt Liver Injury, Blunt Splenic Injury, Penetrating Renal Injuries, Blunt Pancreaticoduodenal Injury, Penetrating Colon Injury, Rectal injury with Pelvic Fracture, Abdominal Aortic Injury, Blunt Pelvic Fracture with Hemoperitoneum, The Mangled Extremity, Damage Control Laparotomy, The Pulseless Trauma Patient, Related Blast Injury, Pediatric Blunt Trauma, Blunt Trauma in Pregnancy, Surgical Critical Care: Acute Respiratory Failure, Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Weaning and Liberation from Mechanical Ventilation, Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism, Perioperative Management of a Patient Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery, Postoperative Cardiac Arrhythmias, Hyponatremia in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Glycemic Control in the Critically Ill Surgical Patient, Postoperative Anemia: Risks, Benefits, and Triggers for Blood Transfusion, Nutritional Considerations in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Pain, Agitation, and Delirum, Care of the Potential Organ Donor, End of Life Care in the ICU: Ethical Considerations a Family-Centered, Multidisciplinary Approach, Acute Trauma-Related Coagulopathy, Adrenal Insufficiency in Critical Illness, Sepsis, Catheter-Related Infections, Special Populations in Trauma, Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit, Surgical Emergencies: Appendicitis, Bariatric Surgery Complications, Diverticulitis, Perforated Peptic Ulcers, Acute Mesenteric Ischemia, Acute Cholecystitis, Acute Pancreatitis, Incarcerated Femoral and Inguinal Hernias, Esophageal Perforation, Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Acute Lower GI Hemorrhage, Perirectal and Perineal Sepsis, Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections, Acute Intestinal Obstruction, Anastomotic Leak and Postoperative Abscess, Anesthesia for Bedside Surgical Procedures, Acute Care Surgery in Immunocompromised Patients, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: A Primer for the Acute Care Surgeon, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care System Issues