Operative Techniques in Trauma and Critical Care

Provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidance on thermal injuries; infection; traumatic injury to the chest wall, pleura, and diaphragm; thoracic traumatic injuries; injury to the neck, GI and GU tracts, duodenum, pancreas, spleen, and liver; pelvic fracture and retroperitoneal hematoma; vascular injuries; trauma in pregnancy; and supportive procedures 

Covers open and video-assisted procedures in trauma and critical care surgery 

The VST ebook features 6 new videos: VATS for retained hemothorax, subxiphoid FAST view demonstrating pericardial fluid, repair of left ventricle gunshot wound, completed repair of left ventricle gunshot wound
control of the pulmonary artery and vein, en bloc staple control

Contains extensive updates throughout, including new coverage of the American Board of Surgery’s SCORE Curricula for General Surgery and for Complex General Surgical Oncology 

Follows the same format for each procedure: differential diagnosis, patient history and physical findings, imaging and other diagnostic studies, surgical management, techniques, pearls and pitfalls, postoperative care, outcomes, and complications 
 

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