Acute Care Surgery: A Guide for General Surgeons

Sharpen your skills in 3 surgical specialties--with this one complete sourcebookA Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE!"This book can be recommended for its well written chapters introducing generalists to principles of critical care. 3 Stars."Doody's Review ServiceAcute Care Surgery: A Guide for the General Surgeondelivers a definitive overview of how to evaluate, stabilize, and perform surgeries for multiple emergent scenarios. Written by prominent surgeon educators, it takes you step-by-step from triage through the operation and concisely explains how to handle trauma, critical care, and emergency surgery situations. No other resource delivers such quick access to essential information prior to the procedure, helping to ensure optimal outcomes for the critically ill surgical patient.Acute Care Surgeryis written specifically to help you prepare during the narrow window of time between resuscitating the patient in the emergency room and the patient's admission to the operating room.FEATURES A multidisciplinary surgical companion covering the three specialties within acute care surgery--emergency surgery, surgical critical care, and trauma A streamlined presentation that facilitates research and offers point-of-care insights that enhance surgical outcomes Clinical chapter orientation, with headers that logically segment chapter material between preoperative, operative, and postoperative management Management algorithms in all clinical chapters highlight and clarify important surgical procedures Expert authorship from leaders in their respective disciplines provide the most clinically relevant, up-to-date approaches to acute care surgical problems

Vicente H. Gracias, MD, is medical director of surgical critical care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Patrick M. Reilly, MD, is professor of surgery at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Mark G. McKenney, MD, is professor of surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine in the Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care.

George Velmahos, MD, Ph.D., is chief of trauma, emergency surgery, and surgical critical care at Massachusetts General Hospital, and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.