Operative Trauma Management

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A detailed, well-illustrated approach to the teaching of operative approaches and management of a trauma patient. The Second Edition now features a wealth of new material on thoracic trauma, urologic trauma, and amputations.

FROM THE CRITICS

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: David J. Dries, MD (University of Minnesota Medical School)Description: This atlas is devoted to operative approaches to various types of trauma. Purpose: Common procedures for the treatment of injury are reviewed along with some points of rationale and pertinent anatomy. Audience: The surgical trainee or practitioner with responsibility for the management of trauma is an appropriate audience for this work. Authors are from major trauma centers about the United States and many are located in the University of Texas system. Features: For the most part, the 35 chapters are organized according to anatomic location or specific organ. Some chapters cover general considerations including diagnostic procedures and wound management. Discussion in each chapter commonly begins with a review of pertinent surgical anatomy. Procedures for common injuries then follow in sequence with serial anatomic drawings reviewing exposure. In some cases, the Organ Injury Scale from the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons is displayed with principles of repair for injury at each degree of severity. Drawings are of ample size and cleanly reproduced. There are no references. The table of contents includes only chapter title and authorship. An index of 10 pages concludes. Assessment: This remains the most current book describing surgical approaches to injury. The addition of material on diagnostic procedures and the critical care unit is also helpful, though incomplete. This senior group of authors could also further discuss the rationale for some of the operative procedures employed as well as staging operative management of trauma with techniques such as damage control laparotomy. References to key primary or other secondary works would be useful.

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3 Stars from Doody

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