Trauma, Critical Care and Surgical Emergencies

This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary discussion about the three key areas of acute care surgery; trauma, surgical critical care, and surgical emergencies. The 65 chapters are arranged by organ, anatomical site and injury type, and each includes a case study with evidence-based analysis of diagnosis, management, and outcomes. Unless stated otherwise, the authors used the GRADE evidence classification system established the American College of Chest Physicians.

Trauma, Critical Care and Surgical Emergencies is essential reading for all surgeons, fellows, residents and students, especially those working in trauma, emergency, and critical care environments.

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.