Main description:

This issue of Surgical Clinics of North America focuses on Trauma, and is edited by Drs. Oscar Guillamondegui and Bradley Dennis. Articles will include: Prehospital Assessment of Trauma; Trauma Systems; Assessment and Resuscitation in Trauma Management; Balanced Resuscitation in Trauma Management; Surgical Management of Traumatic Brain Injury; Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Injury; Surgical Management of Chest Injury; Surgical Management of Abdominal Trauma: Solid Organ Injury; Surgical Management of Abdominal Trauma: Hollow Viscus Injury; Surgical Management of Musculoskeletal Trauma; Surgical Management of Vascular Trauma; Surgical Management of Geriatric Trauma; Radiology of Trauma and the General Surgeon; Trauma Education and Prevention, and more!

Contents:

Surgical Clinics of North America

Contemporary Management of Civilian Trauma

Foreword: Trauma

Preface

Trauma Systems: Origins, Evolution, and Current Challenges

Prehospital Assessment of Trauma

Assessment and Resuscitation in Trauma Management

Balanced Resuscitation in Trauma Management

Acute Management of Traumatic Brain Injury

Trauma: Spinal Cord Injury

Thoracic Trauma

Blunt and Penetrating Cardiac Trauma

Surgical Management of Solid Organ Injuries

Surgical Management of Abdominal Trauma: Hollow Viscus Injury

Surgical Management of Musculoskeletal Trauma

Surgical Management of Vascular Trauma

Evidence-based Care of Geriatric Trauma Patients

Radiology for Trauma and the General Surgeon

Trauma Education and Prevention