Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: An Overview of Trauma -- 1  Concepts and Terminology in Trauma Care -- Why Do Accidents Occur? -- Emergency Management -- Transfer of Patients -- Levels of Trauma Care -- Destructive Impacts -- Wounds in a Trauma Victim -- 2  Care of the Trauma Victim in the Field -- Managing the Airway in the Field -- A Breath of Life -- Maintain Circulation -- Disability: Can the Victim Talk and Move? -- Expose the Victim -- Special Problems in the Field -- Mass Casualty Management -- 3  The Trauma Center -- The Dynamics of Trauma Care -- The Level I Trauma Center -- The Trauma Room -- The Four First Steps in Trauma Care -- 4  Care of the Trauma Patient in the Operating Room -- The Operating Room -- The OR Personnel -- How Cases Are Listed: The "Bumping" Scenario -- When Things Go Wrong in the OR -- OR Atmosphere -- PACU: The Recovery Area -- The Intensive Care Unit -- The Surgical Floor -- Rehabilitation and Going Home -- Part II: Specific Traumatic Injuries By Organ System -- 5  Head Trauma: From Concussion to the Persistent Vegetative State -- Diffuse Brain Injury -- Focal Brain Injury -- Scalp Injury -- Facial Injuries -- Lower Jaw Injuries -- 6  Neck and Spinal Cord Injuries: Snapped, Stabbed and Strangled -- Direct Trauma to the Neck -- Indirect Trauma to the Neck (Blunt) -- The Treatment of Neck Fractures -- Hangman's Fracture -- Autoerotic Asphyxiation -- 7  Chest Trauma: The Dirty Dozen Maiming Injuries -- The Dirty Dozen -- Injuries That May Kill Within Minutes -- Injuries That May Kill Within Hours -- 8  Abdominal Trauma: Beware of Hidden Damage -- Patterns of Intra-Abdominal Injury -- Blunt Trauma to the Abdomen -- Penetrating Trauma to the Abdomen -- Diagnosing a Major Abdominal Injury.

The Outcome of Abdominal Injury -- 9  Extremity Trauma: Crunched Arms and Legs -- The Upper Extremity -- The Lower Extremity -- Part III: Unique Traumatic Injuries -- 10  Bites: Animal Assaults -- Dog Bites -- Human Bites -- Snake Bites -- Shark Bites -- Horse Bites -- Stings -- The Brown Recluse Spider -- Sea Life "Bites" -- Animal Defenses -- 11  Impalement Injuries and Mutilation: From Fencing to Fences -- Features of an Impalement Injury -- Mutilation and Torture -- 12  Traumatic Amputations and Replantation: Don't Lose the Missing Part! -- How a Finger Is Replanted -- Are Kids' Injuries Different? -- A Warning! -- 13  Burns and Frostbite: The Scars of Temperature Extremes -- Burns -- House Fire Smoke Inhalation -- Electrical Burns -- Lightning -- Environmental Temperature Damage -- Heat Stroke (Sun Stroke) -- Heat Prostration (Heat Exhaustion) -- Frostbite -- Hypothermia -- Other Cold Injuries -- 14  Diving Accidents and Altitude Illness -- Diving Accidents and Their Consequences -- Decompression Sickness ("The Bends") -- Barotrauma -- Nitrogen Narcosis ("Rapture of the Deep") -- Altitude Sickness -- Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) -- High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) -- High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE) -- 15  Assaulted Elders, Battered Women and Injured Kids: The Defenseless -- Battered, Bruised and Abused Kids -- The Pediatric Trauma Patient -- Battered Women -- The Pregnant Trauma Patient -- Abused Elders -- The Elderly Trauma Patient -- 16  Sexual Assault: Unspeakable Trauma -- What is Rape? -- Why Do Men Rape Women? -- Myths About Rape -- The Initial Examination of the Victim -- Sexual Assault Against Children -- The Sexually Abused Adolescent -- 17  Organ Donations: Who Makes the Ultimate Gift? -- The Persistent Vegetative State -- Who Becomes an Organ Donor? -- A Short, Short Course on Transplant Biology.

The Process of Obtaining Organs for Donation -- The Process of Performing an Organ Transplant -- Transplant Ethics: -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.