Antibiotic Use and Misuse
CHAPTER 13 ANTIBIOTIC USE AND MISUSE PHILIP S. BARIE AND VANESSA P. HO Traditionally, surgeons were only involved with infections that required invasive measures for treatment (e.g., complicated intra-abdominal infections…
Acute Care Surgery: General Principles
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES CHAPTER 1 ACUTE CARE SURGERY: GENERAL PRINCIPLES L.D. BRITT ACUTE CARE SURGERY-GENERAL PRINCIPLES Expedient assessment/intervention is the paramount axiom of acute care surgery management. This in no way…
Spinal Column and Spinal Cord Injury
CHAPTER 24 SPINAL COLUMN AND SPINAL CORD INJURY KHALID M. ABBED AND KIMBERLY A. DAVIS Injuries to the spine, including injuries to the vertebral column, ligaments, and cord, are common….
Acute Kidney Injury
CHAPTER 52 ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY SOUMITRA R. EACHEMPATI, FRANK LIU, AND PHILIP S. BARIE The functions of the kidney can be divided into secretion of hormones and maintaining the extracellular…
Abdominal Trauma
CHAPTER 28 ABDOMINAL TRAUMA JUAN ASENSIO, AURELIO RODRIGUEZ, GRACIELA BAUZA, T. VU, F. MAZZINI, F. HERRERIAS, AND ANDREW B. PEITZMAN Evaluation and management of complex abdominal injury can challenge even…
Cardiovascular Failure and Circulatory Support—Monitoring and Essential Adjuncts
CHAPTER 50 CARDIOVASCULAR FAILURE AND CIRCULATORY SUPPORT—MONITORING AND ESSENTIAL ADJUNCTS JOHN A. MORRIS, MICKEY OTT, FITZGERALD J. CASIMIR, WALTER K. CLAIR, AND MARK GLAZER The acute care surgery patient is…
Scoring Systems for Injury and Emergency General Surgery
CHAPTER 63 SCORING SYSTEMS FOR INJURY AND EMERGENCY GENERAL SURGERY SHAWN NESSEN AND JOHN FILDES SCORING SYSTEMS FOR INJURY Introduction Modern injury severity scoring is an important aspect of managing…
Mechanical Ventilator Support
CHAPTER 49 MECHANICAL VENTILATOR SUPPORT MARC J. SHAPIRO AND BRIAN M. HALL The respiratory system is responsible for both oxygenation and ventilation. Oxygenation is the ability to provide oxygen to…
Basic Operative Techniques in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
CHAPTER 5 BASIC OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES IN TRAUMA AND ACUTE CARE SURGERY RAO R. IVATURY Trauma and acute care surgery is an exciting field that offers a wide spectrum of operative…
Ophthalmic Injury
CHAPTER 25 OPHTHALMIC INJURY FRANCIS L. COUNSELMAN AND SHANNON M. McCOLE Hippocrates was the first person to record the association between facial trauma and blindness.1 Trauma is responsible for bilateral…
