SURGICAL CRITICAL CARE CHAPTER 46 INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: THE ESSENTIALS–INCLUDING ASSESSMENT OF SEVERITY OF CRITICAL ILLNESS MAYUR B. PATEL AND ADDISON K. MAY Patients managed by acute care surgeons frequently…
CHAPTER 41 ANORECTAL ABSCESS AND INFLAMMATORY PROCESSES HERAND ABCARIAN ANORECTAL ABSCESS Anorectal abscess is by far the most common colorectal disease requiring acute care and surgery. The overwhelming majority of…
CHAPTER 4 SHOCK STATES IN ACUTE CARE SURGERY JEREMY M. HSU AND RONALD V. MAIER Shock is the clinical end result of inadequate tissue perfusion. The currently accepted concept was…
TRAUMA CHAPTER 20 THE EVOLUTION OF TRAUMA CARE IN THE UNITED STATES DONALD D. TRUNKEY PAST The history of trauma care is inextricably linked to wars and wounds. Trauma antedates…
CHAPTER 15 ACUTE CARE SURGERY IN SPECIAL POPULATIONS C. WILLIAM SCHWAB, DANIEL J. GRABO, EDGARDO S. SALCEDO, AND MICHAEL L. NANCE ACUTE CARE SURGERY IN THE ELDERLY Introduction Surgical emergencies…
CHAPTER 37 APPENDICITIS D. PATRICK BRYANT AND HEIDI FRANKEL In the time of Leonardo da Vinci, the appendix was ascribed a function as an organ capable of expanding and contracting,…
CHAPTER 7 AIRWAY MANAGEMENT MATTHEW KEITH WHALIN, CARLA IRENE HAACK, TIMOTHY G. BUCHMAN, AND PAUL S. GARCIA HISTORY, DEFINITIONS, AND BASICS “There is nothing living that does not breathe, and…
