Difficult Decisions in Trauma Surgery

Chapter 1 Difficult Decisions in Trauma: Is ABC the Right Mantra?

Chapter 2 Difficult Decisions in Trauma Surgery: What Is the Clinical Impact of Whole Blood as Compared to Component Therapy in Civilian Trauma?

Chapter 3 Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in Trauma

Chapter 4 Futility of Care in Hemorrhagic Shock: When Prolonging the Massive Transfusion Protocol Is of No Benefit

Chapter 5 Is it Time for REBOA to be Considered as an Equivalent to Resuscitative Thoracotomy?

Chapter 6 In Patients with Traumatic Extremity Wounds Is Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Superior as Compared to Standard Dressing Changes?

Chapter 7 Enterocutaneous Fistula Management in Trauma

Chapter 8 Does Prophylactic Antibiotics for Emergent Tube Thoracostomy Decrease Rates of Infection?

Chapter 9 Antibiotics Prophylaxis after Penetrating Colon Injuries

Chapter 10 Antibiotic Regimen in Treating Complicated Intra-abdominal Infections

Chapter 11 Is Vaccine Prophylaxis Necessary for Patients Undergoing Splenic Embolization?

Chapter 12 The Trauma Pan-Scan: Who Benefits from Immediate Whole-Body Imaging?

Chapter 13 Nonselective Arterial Embolization for Pelvic Fractures

Chapter 14 Clinical Clearance of the Cervical Spine in the Presence of a Distracting Injury

Chapter 15 MRI Clearance for the Cervical Spine

Chapter 16 ECMO Safety in the Setting of Traumatic Brain Injury

Chapter 17 Can Abdominal Decompression Improve Refractory Intracranial Hypertension?

Chapter 18 Is There an Optimal Screening Tool to Best Diagnose and Treat Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury (BCVI)?

Chapter 19 Does Specific Sequencing of Operative Interventions in Thoracoabdominal Trauma Improve Outcomes?

Chapter 20 Selective Non-operative Management for Abdominal Gunshot Wounds

Chapter 21 What Is the Optimal Management of Traumatic Duodenal Injury?

Chapter 22 Timing of Ostomy Reversal in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Chapter 23 Resuscitative Thoracotomy

Chapter 24 Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Patients with Traumatic Injury and Respiratory Failure

Chapter 25 Is There a Gold Standard for Screening Blunt Cardiac Injury?

Chapter 26 Optimal Chest Tube Size for Hemothorax Evacuation

Chapter 27 Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA) for Post-traumatic Retained Hemothorax

Chapter 28 Rib Plating in the Acute Trauma Setting

Chapter 29 Does Thoracic Irrigation at the Time of Chest Tube Placement Decrease the Incidence of a Retained Hemothorax?

Chapter 30 The Timing of VATS for a Retained Hemothorax

Chapter 31 Donation After Cardiac Death in the Emergency Department

Chapter 32 Resuscitative Thoracotomy for Organ Donation

Chapter 33 Resilience Training for the Trauma Surgeon

Chapter 34 Youth Violence Prevention: Violence Recovery Programs

Chapter 35 Are Temporary Vascular Shunts (TVS) Effective Damage Control Adjuncts for Limb Salvage?

Chapter 36 Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach Limb Salvage for the Mangled Extremity

Chapter 37 The Use of FAST in the Pediatric Trauma Setting

Chapter 38 Selective Nonoperative Management of Children with Penetrating Abdominal Trauma

Chapter 39 Are Outcomes Equivalent for Injured Children Treated at Pediatric Versus Adult Trauma Centers, and What Are the Implications with Respect to the Design of Optimal Trauma Systems?