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…
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…
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…
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…
CHAPTER 56 THE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT UROGHUPATEI P. IYEGHA AND GREGORY J. BEILMAN Immunocompromised patients present a special challenge to the acute care surgeon. Although transplant recipients, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected…
CHAPTER 16 PREHOSPITAL TRAUMA CARE NORMAN E. MCSWAIN JR This chapter is divided into two parts: the first is what the acute care surgeon (ACS) needs to know about the…
CHAPTER 54 NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS PAMELA A. LIPSETT In order to help the clinician make decisions about empiric antibiotic selection, the classification of infections has typically been divided into the site…
CHAPTER 30 ACUTE CARE SURGERY: SKELETAL AND SOFT-TISSUE INJURY GUSTAVO X. CORDERO, GARY S. GRUEN, PETER A. SISKA, AND IVAN S. TARKIN Expert care of musculoskeletal injury in the polytrauma…
CHAPTER 23 MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES NATHANIEL MCQUAY JR AND DANIEL LADER Maxillofacial trauma encompasses injuries to the soft tissue and skeletal and visceral organs of the face. Fractures occur when forces…
