Research Catalog

Title

Acute care surgery : a guide for general surgeons / editors, Vicente H. Gracias [and others].

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill Medical, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

Gracias, Vicente H.

Description

xvii, 446 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subjects

• Critical Care > methods
• Wounds and injuries > Surgery
• Surgical emergencies
• Emergency Treatment > methods
• Surgical Procedures, Operative > methods
• Wounds and Injuries > surgery
• Surgical intensive care

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Emergency Surgery -- 1. The Interface with Emergency Medicine / Munish Goyal and David F. Gaieski -- 2. Patient Safety / Michael D. Crittenden and Shukri F. Khuri -- 3. Emergency Management of the Oropharynx and Neck / Lenworth M. Jacobs and J. M. Kofi Abbensetts -- 4. Emergency Chest Surgery / Claudia E. Goettler and Michael F. Rotondo -- 5. Emergency Surgery for Stomach and Duodenum Injuries / Ronald Jou, David A. Spain and Susan I. Brundage -- 6. Nontraumatic Emergency Surgery of the Small Intestine / David H. Livingston and Chirag Badami -- 7. The Colon / Thomas J. Schroeppel and Timothy C. Fabian -- 8. The Rectum and Anus / Craig A. Reickert, Sadaf Khan and Scott A. Dulchavsky -- 9. The Liver / Elliott R. Haut, David T. Efron and Edward E. Cornwell, III -- 10. Biliary Surgery / Benjamin Braslow, Ernest L. Rosato and Karen A. Chojnacki -- 11. Pancreatic Emergency: Acute Pancreatitis / Marc de Moya and Andrew L. Warshaw -- 12. The Spleen / Gary A. Vercruysse and David V. Feliciano -- 13. The Acute Care Surgeon's Approach to Hernia Repair / Jay S. Jenoff and Vicente H. Gracias -- 14. Soft Tissue Infections / Sharon Henry and Thomas Scalea -- 15. Traumatic Aortic Rupture / Thomas Abbruzzese, Christopher J. Kwolek and Michael T. Watkins -- 16. Arterial and Venous Occlusion / Benjamin M. Jackson and Edward Y. Woo -- 17. The Extremities / Aaron Bransky, Heidi Frankel and Larry Gentilello -- 18. Pediatric Surgery / Nikunj S. Chokshi, Henri R. Ford and Jeffrey S. Upperman -- 19. Endpoints of Resuscitation: What Have We Learned? / Frederick A. Moore and Bruce A. McKinley -- Pt. II. Critical Care -- 20. Postoperative Pitfalls / K. Inaba and D. Demetriades -- 21. General Evaluation and Resuscitation / Jason W. Smith, Scott B. Armen and Larry C. Martin -- 22. Nutrition and Venous Access / James H. Holmes, IV -- 23. Antibiotic Selection / Philip S. Barie and Soumitra R. Eachempati -- 24. Prophylaxis / Patricia A. O'Neill, Lisa S. Dresner and Robert Schulze -- 25. Analgesia and Sedation / Bryan A. Cotton and Addison K. May -- 26. Ventilator Management / Nabil Issa and Lena M. Napolitano -- Pt. III. Trauma -- 27. Trauma to the Head, Face, and Neck / Stephen C. Gale and Kenneth L. Mattox -- 28. Thoracic Trauma / George D. Garcia and Juan A. Asensio -- 29. The Abdomen / Michael E. Lekawa and David B. Hoyt -- 30. The Pelvis / Sharmila Dissanaike and Gregory J. Jurkovich -- 31. Spinal Cord Injury / Kimball I. Maull and Peter Letarte -- 32. The Initial Care of the Burn Patient / Frederick W. Endorf, Richard L. Gamelli and Frederick A. Luchette.

ISBN

• 9780071472906 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0071472908 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008037024

OCLC

• ocn244265667
• 244265667
• SCSB-5437962

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries