The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery / Edition 5

by Andrew B. Peitzman MD, FACS, Donald M. Yealy MD, FACEP, Timothy C. Fabian MD, FACS, C. William Schwab MD, FACS, Francis X Guyette

Overview

Covering all areas of trauma, critical care, and emergency surgery, The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 5th Edition, brings you fully up to date with recent changes in the field. This pocket manual is an indispensable resource for everyone on the trauma/acute care team, with practical, easy-to-read coverage of the wide range of patients seen daily with urgent presentation – whether from injury, emergency general surgical disease, or a major complication. This user-friendly manual is one that every trauma surgeon, surgical resident, surgical critical care specialist, emergency medicine physician, and emergency or trauma nurse will want to keep close at hand for daily use.
 

• Up-to-date coverage of trauma, critical care, and emergency general surgery from a newly expanded group of national and international experts in the field.
• Organized in a chronological fashion following the usual events and phases of care after injury or acute surgical illness.
• Many new and revised chapters throughout the book, plus an entirely new section on surgical rescue and management of frequent complications.
• Evidence-based recommendations backed by extensive clinical experience, presented in a quick-reference format for ease of use.
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781975113049
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	09/18/2019
Edition description:	Fifth
Pages:	1040
Sales rank:	366,917
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.50(d)

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: David James Dries, MSE, MD (Regions Hospital)
Description: This is the fourth edition of a manual originally dedicated to trauma management, but which has now expanded to the work of acute care surgeons. The previous edition was published in 2008.
Purpose: A pocket guide covers trauma, critical care, and emergency surgery.
Audience: Students and trainees rotating in these disciplines are an appropriate audience for this work originating from an international group of surgeons. The majority of contributors come from American trauma centers and acute care surgery programs.
Features: The book opens with reviews on shock, surgical physiology, transfusion medicine, nutrition, patient transport, infectious diseases, and pain management. A second group of chapters describes trauma and burn injury based on organ systems and patient type, while a third group of approximately 15 chapters describes operative techniques for surgeons managing non-trauma surgical emergencies. A small group of presentations describe organ dysfunction in the ICU. Concluding chapters cover miscellaneous procedures. Contributors loosely follow an outline format. In some cases, paragraph structure is used while in others, sentences or phrases are used. Line drawings reproduce well while photographs and radiographs reproduce with uneven quality. Each chapter contains a reference list, typically with a small number of entries. Occasional references date to within one to two years of publication, but most citations are much older. In general, primary literature is represented. A summary of the organ injury scales developed by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma is followed by a detailed subject index.
Assessment: The scope of this book has expanded to better reflect the work of the acute care surgeon. New chapters address the management of critical illness in surgical patients, while chapters on acute surgical problems have been updated and reorganized to reflect current practice.

Doody's Review Service

"The scope of this book has expanded to better reflect the work of the acute care surgeon. New chapters address the management of critical illness in surgical patients, while chapters on acute surgical problems have been updated and reorganized to reflect current practice." Doody's Reviews, May 2013
David J. Dries, MD (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Weighted Numerical Score: 80 - 3 Stars

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