Demetrios Demetriades is Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California and Director of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Centre, Los Angeles. Kenji Inaba is Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Surgical Critical Care program and Surgery Residency Program at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. George Velmahos is Professor of Surgery at Harvard University and Director of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

'It was fantastic. Images were so helpful. We found this more useful than videos.' Dr Joseph Galante, UC Davis Department of Surgery

• Introduction; Preface; Acknowledgements; Dedications; Part I. The Trauma Operating Room: 1. Trauma operating room Brian Mecklenburg, Lisa L. Schlitzkus and Kenji Inaba; Part II. Resuscitative Procedures in the Emergency Room: 2. Cricothyrodotomy Paul Wisniewski and Travis Polk; 3. Thoracostomy tube insertion Demetrios Demetriades and Caroline Park; 4. Emergency room resuscitative thoracotomy Demetrios Demetriades and James Bardes; Part III. Head: 5. Intracranial pressure monitors Meghan Lewis and Peter Gruen; 6. Evacuation acute epidural and subdural hematomas Gabriel Zada and Kazuhide Matsushima; Part IV. Neck: 7. Neck operations for trauma: general principles Kenji Inaba and James Bardes; 8. Carotid and internal jugular vein Edward Kwon and George Velmahos; 9. Subclavian vessels Demetrios Demetriades and Jennifer Smith; 10. Axillary vessels Demetrios Demetriades and Emilie Joos; 11. Vertebral artery Demetrios Demetriades and Morgan Schellenberg; 12. Larynx and trachea Elizabeth Benjamin and Kenji Inaba; 13. Cervical esophagus Elizabeth Benjamin and Kenji Inaba; Part V. Chest: 14. General principles of chest trauma operations Demetrios Demetriades and Matthew Forrester; 15. Heart Demetrios Demetriades and Zachary Warriner; 16. Mediastinal vessels Demetrios Demetriades, Vince Chong and George Velmahos; 17. Lungs Demetrios Demetriades and Jennifer Smith; 18. Thoracic esophagus Anthony Kim and Caroline Park; 19. Diaphragm Lydia Lam and Caroline Park; 20. Surgical fixation of rib fractures Travis Polk and Paul Wisniewski; 21. Video-assisted thoracoscopic evacuation of retained hemothorax Aaron Strumwasser and Mathew Forrestiere; Part VI. Abdomen: 22. General principles of abdominal operations for trauma Damon Clarke and Zachary Warriner; 23. Damage control surgery Demetrios Demetriades and Mark Kaplan; 24. Resuscitative endovascular occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) Elizabeth Benjamin and Kazuhide Matsushima; 25. Gastrointestinal tract Kenji Inaba, Morgan Schellenberg and Lisa Schlitzkus; 26. Duodenum Elizabeth Benjamin, Edward Kwon and Demetrios Demetriades; 27. Liver and biliary tract Kenji Inaba and Zachary Warriner; 28. Spleen Demetrios Demetriades and Mathew D. Tadlock; 29. Pancreas Demetrios Demetriades, Emily Joos and George Velmahos; 30. Genito urinary tract Leo Doumanian, Charles Best, Jessica Keeley and Steve Varga; 31. Abdominal aorta and splachnic vessels Pedro Teixeira, Gregory Magee and Vincent Rowe; 32. Iliac vessels Demetrios Demetriades and Kelly Vogt; 33. Inferior vena cava Lydia Lam, Matthew D. Tadlock and Demetrios Demetriades; 34. Emergency cesarean section Marcia Ciccone, Sigita Cahoon and Laila Muderspach; 35. Emergency hysterectomy Marcia Ciccone, Laila Muderspach and Sigita Cahoon; Part VII. Pelvic Fractures and Bleeding: 36. Damage control for pelvic fracture bleeding Kazuhide Matsushima and Bryan Love; Part VIII. Upper Extremities: 37. Brachial vessels Elizabeth Benjamin and Peep Talving; 38. Upper extremity fasciotomies Demetrios Demetriades; 39. Upper extremity amputations Peep Talving and Jackson Lee; Part IX. Lower Extremities: 40. Femoral vessels George Velmahos and Matthew Forrestiere; 41. Popliteal vessels Demetrios Demetriades and Gregory Magee; 42. Harvesting of saphenous vein Aaron Strumwasser and Gregory Magee; 43. Lower extremity amputations Jackson Lee, Jessica Keeley and Stephen Varga; 44. Lower extremity fasciotomies Elizabeth Benjamin and James Bardes; Part X. Orthopedic Damage Control: 45. Orthopedic damage control Eric Pagenkopf, Daniel Grabo and Peter Hammer; Part XI. Soft Tissues: 46. Skin grafts Justin Gillenwater and Warren Garner; 47. Negative pressure therapy for soft tissue wounds Elizabeth Benjamin and Demetrios Demetriades; 48. Escharotomy in burns Justin Gillenwater and Warren Garner; 49. Vascular shunts Travis Polk and Paul Wisniewski; Index.