Trauma Anesthesia

Name: Trauma Anesthesia
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ISBN: 9780521870580

ISBN-10: 0521870585

ISBN-13: 9780521870580

Edition: 2008

Authors: Charles E. Smith

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Trauma patients present unique challenges to anesthesiologists. Acute injuries require resource intensive care and are often complex cases especially when coupled with underlying, preexisting medical conditions. Anesthesiologists are involved with trauma patients beginning with airway and shock resuscitation, continuing with intraoperative care during surgery, and extending on to pain management and critical care post-operatively. This new reference focuses on a broad spectrum of traumatic injuries and the procedures anesthesiologists perform to adequately care for trauma patients perioperatively, surgically, and post-operatively. Special emphasis is given to the assessment and treatment of…

Book details

List price: $140.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/23/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.290
Language: English

Charles E. Smith is Professor of Anesthesia and the Director of Cardiothoracic and Trauma Anesthesia at MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.



Foreward



Trauma airway management




Shock management




Establishing vascular access in the trauma patient




Monitoring the trauma patient Steele, Soran




Fluid and blood therapy in trauma




Massive transfusion protocols in trauma care




Blood loss: does it change my intravenous anesthetic?




Pharmacology of neuromuscular blocking agents and their reversal in trauma patients




Abdominal trauma: surgical issues




Anesthesia considerations for abdominal trauma




Cardiac and great vessel trauma




Anesthesia considerations for cardiothoracic trauma




Intraoperative one-lung ventilation for trauma anesthesia




Use of echocardiography and ultrasound in trauma




Trauma and regional anesthesia




Musculoskeletal trauma




Anesthesia considerations for musculoskeletal trauma




Ultrasound procedures in trauma




Hypothermia in trauma




Damage control in severe trauma




Burn injuries




Anesthesia for burns Jessica




Oral and maxillofacial trauma




Eye trauma and anesthesia




Acute spinal cord injuries




Management of mechanical ventilation in critically injured patients




Trauma in pregnancy




Trauma in the elderly




Pediatric trauma anesthesia




Intensive care unit management of pediatric brain injury




Field anesthesia and military injury




Teams, team training and the role of simulation in trauma




Trauma systems, triage and transfer




Post-trauma chronic pain