General Principles -- Initial Assessment and Early Resuscitation -- The Operating Theater for Acute Care Surgery -- Anesthesia and Acute Care Surgery -- Fundamental Operative Approaches in Acute Care Surgery -- The Perioperative Management of the Acute Care Surgical Patient -- The Hemodynamically Labile Patient: Cardiovascular Adjuncts and Assist Devices -- Principles and Practice of Nutritional Support for Surgical Patients -- The Intensive Care Unit: The Next-Generation Operating Room -- Burns -- Electrical and Lightning Injuries -- Soft Tissue Infections -- The Open Abdomen: Management from Initial Laparotomy to Definitive Closure -- Acute Care Surgery and the Elderly -- Acute Care Surgery in the Rural Setting -- Prehospital Care in the Acute Setting -- Disaster and Mass Casualty Management -- Principles of Injury Prevention and Control -- Education: Surgical Simulation in Acute Care Surgery -- Organ-Based Approach -- Pharynx and Larynx -- Head and Neck: Pediatrics -- Esophagus -- Central Nervous System -- Chest Wall -- Lungs and Pleura -- Heart -- Thoracic Aorta -- Diaphragm -- Abdominal Wall -- Foregut -- Small Intestine -- Liver and Biliary Tract -- Pancreas -- Spleen -- Intraabdominal Vasculature -- Colon and Rectum -- Urogenital Tract -- Pelvis -- Lower Extremities -- Hand and Upper Extremities -- Peripheral Vasculature -- Administration, Ethics, and Law -- Understanding the Latest Changes in EMTALA: Our Country’s Emergency Care Safety Net -- Informed Surgical Consent -- Advance Directives -- The Nonviable Patient and Organ Procurement -- Ethical Dilemmas and the Law -- System and Curriculum Development -- Development of a Regional System for Surgical Emergencies (RSSE) -- Acute Care Surgery: A Proposed Curriculum -- Emergency General Surgery: The Vanderbilt Model -- The International Communities -- Acute Care Surgery: United Kingdom -- Acute Care Surgery: Australia -- Acute Care Surgery: Japan.