THE TRAUMA MANUAL: TRAUMA AND ACUTE CARE SURGERY, Fourth Edition -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- 1: Introduction to Trauma Care -- 2: Physiologic Response to Injury -- 3: Airway Management and Anesthesia -- 4: Initial Assessment and Resuscitation* -- 5: Shock -- 6: Damage Control Surgery -- 7: Blood and Transfusion -- 8: Nutritional Intervention -- 9: Prehospital and Air Medical Care -- 10: Team Activation and Organization -- 11: Imaging of Trauma Patients -- 12: Interventional Radiology -- 13: Sepsis in Trauma -- 14: Infections, Antibiotic Prevention, and Antibiotic Management -- 15: Trauma Pain Management -- 16: Venous Thromboembolism -- 17: Operating Room Practice -- 18: Disasters, Mass Casualty Incidents -- 19: Injury Prevention -- 20: Rehabilitation -- 21 A: Trauma in Children -- 21 B: Trauma in Pregnant Women -- 21 C: Trauma in Older Adults -- 22: Introduction to Trauma: Mechanism of Injury -- 23: Traumatic Brain Injury -- 24: Maxillofacial Injury -- 25: Spinal Cord and Spinal Column -- 26: Ophthalmic Injuries -- 27: Neck Trauma -- 28: Thoracic Injuries -- 29: Abdominal Trauma -- 30: Genitourinary Injuries -- 31: Orthopedic Trauma, Fractures, and Dislocations -- 32: Peripheral Vascular Injuries -- 33: Burns/Inhalation Injury -- 34: Priorities in the ICU Care of the Adult Trauma Patient -- 35: Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome -- 36: Cardiovascular Disease and Monitoring -- 37: Acute Kidney Injury -- 38: Acute Respiratory Failure and Mechanical Ventilation -- 39: Abdominal Compartment Syndrome, Open Abdomen, Enterocutaneous Fistulae -- 40: Liver Failure -- 41: Support of the Organ Donor -- 42: Accidental and Therapeutic Hypothermia, Cold Injury, and Drowning -- 43: Introduction to Emergency General Surgery: Evaluation of the Acute Abdomen.

44: Preparation, Initial Resuscitation, and Management of the Patient for Emergency Operation -- 45: Acute Abdomen in ICU Patients -- 46: Bowel Obstruction -- 47: Gastrointestinal Bleeding -- 48: Acute Pancreatitis -- 49: Biliary Tract Disease -- 50: Appendicitis -- 51: Esophagus, Stomach, and Duodenum -- 52: Inflammatory Diseases of the Intestines -- 53: Acute Anorectal Pain -- 54: Soft Tissue Infection -- 55: Vascular Emergencies -- 56: Hernias -- 57: Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies -- 58: Laparoscopic Treatment of the Acute Abdomen -- 59: Miscellaneous Procedures -- 60: Scoring for Injury and Emergency Surgery -- APPENDIX A: Injury Scales -- APPENDIX B: Frequently Used Forms -- Index.