Acute Care Surgery: A Guide for General Surgeons
A Guide for Emergency Surgeons

A multidisciplinary surgical companion that covers the three specialties within acute care surgery - emergency surgery, surgical critical care, and trauma. It features a streamlined presentation that facilitates research and offers point-of-care insights that enhance surgical outcomes.

No other resource delivers such quick access to essential information prior to the procedure, helping to ensure optimal outcomes for the critically ill surgical patient. Acute Care Surgery is written specifically to help you prepare during the narrow window of time between resuscitating the patient in the emergency room and the patient's admission to the operating room. FEATURES A multidisciplinary surgical companion covering the three specialties within acute care surgery--emergency surgery, surgical critical care, and trauma A streamlined presentation that facilitates research and offers point-of-care insights that enhance surgical outcomes Clinical chapter orientation, with headers that logically segment chapter material between preoperative, operative, and postoperative management Management algorithms in all clinical chapters highlight and clarify important surgical procedures Expert authorship from leaders in their respective disciplines provide the most clinically relevant, up-to-date approaches to acute care surgical problems

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
PART I: EMERGENCY SURGERY
1. The Interface with Emergency Medicine, Munish Goyal, MD, FACEP, and David F. Gaieski, MD, FACEP
2. Patient Safety, Michael D. Crittenden, MD, and Shukri F. Khuri, MD
3. Emergency Management of the Oropharynx and Neck, Lenworth M. Jacobs, MD, MPH, and J.M. Kofi Abbensetts, MD
4. Emergency Chest Surgery, Claudia E. Goettler, MD, and Michael F. Rotondo, MD
5. Emergency Surgery for Stomach and Duodenum Injuries, Ronald Jou, MD, David A. Spain, MD, and Susan I. Brundage, MD, MPH
6. Nontraumatic Emergency Surgery of the Small Intestine, David H. Livingston, MD, and Chirag Badami, MD
7. The Colon, Thomas J. Schroeppel, MD, and Timothy C. Fabian, MD
8. The Rectum and Anus, Craig A. Reickert, MD, Sadaf Khan, MBBS, and Scott A. Dulchavsky, MD, PhD
9. The Liver, Elliott R. Haut, MD, David T. Efron, MD, and Edward E. Cornwell, III, MD
10.Biliary Surgery, Benjamin Braslow, MD, Ernest L. Rosato, MD, and Karen A. Chojnacki, MD
11. Pancreatic Emergency: Acute Pancreatitis, Marc de Moya, MD, and Andrew L. Warshaw, MD
12. The Spleen, Gary A. Vercruysse, MD, and David V. Feliciano, MD
13. The Acute Care Surgeon's Approach to Hernia Repair, Jay S. Jenoff, MD, and Vicente H. Gracias
14. Soft Tissue Infections, Sharon Henry, MD, and Thomas Scalea, MD
15. Traumatic Aortic Rupture, Thomas Abbruzzese, MD, Christopher J. Kwolek, MD, and Michael T. Watkins, MD
16. Arterial and Venous Occlusion, Benjamin M. Jackson, MD, and Edward Y. Woo, MD
17. The Extremities, Aaron Bransky, MD, Heidi Frankel, MD, and Larry Gentilello, MD
18. Pediatric Surgery, Nikunj S. Chokshi, MD, and Henri R. Ford, MD, and Jeffrey S. Upperman
19. Endpoints of Resuscitation: What Have We Learned? Frederick A. Moore, MD, and Bruce A. McKinley, PhD
Part II: CRITICAL CARE
20. Postoperative Pitfalls, K. Inaba, MD, and D. Demetriades, MD
21. General Evaluation and Resuscitation, Jason W. Smith, MD, Scott B. Armen, MD, and Larry C. Martin, MD
22. Nutrition and Venous Access, James H. Holmes, IV, MD
23. Antibiotic Selection, Philip S. Barie, MD, MBA, and Soumitra R. Eachempati, MD
24. Prophylaxis, Patricia A. O'Neill, MD, Lisa S. Dresner, MD, and Robert Schulze, MD
25. Analgesia and Sedation, Bryan A. Cotton, MD, and Addison K. May, MD
26. Ventilator Management, Nabil Issa, MD, and Lena M. Napolitano, MD
PART III: TRAUMA
27. Trauma to the Head, Face, and Neck, Stephen C. Gale, MD, and Kenneth L. Mattox, MD
28. Thoracic Trauma, George D. Garcia, MD, and Juan A. Asensio, MD
29. The Abdomen, Michael E. Lekawa, MD, and David B. Hoyt, MD
30. The Pelvis, Sharmila Dissanaike, MD, and Gregory J. Jurkovich, MD
31. Spinal Cord Injury, Kimball I. Maull, MD, and Peter Letarte, MD
32. The Initial Care of the Burn Patient, Frederick W. Endorf, MD, Richard L. Gamelli, MD, and Frederick A. Luchette, MD
Index