Martin, MD, FACS / Martin / Beekley, MD, FACS Front Line Surgery

A Practical Approach
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4419-6079-5
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten, eBook

Both editors are active duty officers and surgeons in the U.S. Army. Dr. Martin is a fellowship trained trauma surgeon who is currently the Trauma Medical Director at Madigan Army Medical Center. He has served as the Chief of Surgery with the 47th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) in Tikrit, Iraq in 2005 to 2006, and most recently as the Chief of Trauma and General Surgery with the 28th CSH in Baghdad, Iraq in 2007 to 2008. He has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and surgical chapters. He presented his latest work analyzing trauma-related deaths in the current war and strategies to reduce them at the 2008 annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Beekley is the former Trauma Medical Director at Madigan Army Medical Center. He has multiple combat deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, and has served in a variety of leadership roles with both Forward Surgical Teams (FST) and Combat Support Hospitals (CSH).

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

MD,

FACS,

Martin, Matthew

Beekley, Alec

Martin, MD, FACS, Matthew J.

Martin, Md

Beekley, MD, FACS, Alec C.

Beekley, Md

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Foreword.- Top Ten Combat Trauma Lessons.- Prehospital and Enroute Care.- Combat Triage and Mass Casualty Management.- Initial Management Priorities: Beyond ABCDE.- Damage Control Resuscitation.- To Operate or Image? (Pulling the Trigger) .- Ultrasound in Combat Trauma.- Contamination, Colostomies, and Combat Surgery.- Liver and Spleen Injury Management in Combat (Old School) .- Pancreatic and Duodenal Injuries (Sleep when you can…).- Operative Management of Renal Injuries.- Major Abdominal Trauma.- To Close or Not to Close: Managing the Open Abdomen.- Choice of Thoracic Incision.- Lung Injuries.- Diagnosis and Management of Penetrating Cardiac Injury.- Thoracic Vascular Injuries—Operative Management in “Enemy” Territory.- Chest Wall and Diaphragm Injury.- Soft Tissue Wounds and Fasciotomies.- Open Fractures.- Mangled Extremities and Amputations.- Peripheral Vascular Injuries.- The Neck.- Genitourinary Injuries (excluding kidney) .- Neurosurgery for Dummies.- Spine Injuries.- Face, Eye, and Ear Injuries.- Burn Care in the Field Hospital.- The Pediatric Patient in Wartime.- The Combat ICU Team.- Postoperative Resuscitation.- Monitoring.- Ventilator Management.- Practical Approach to Combat-related Infections and Antibiotics.- Stabilization and Transfer from the Far Forward Environment.- Humanitarian and Local National Care.- Expectant and End of Life Care in a Combat Zone.- Appendix A. Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome: Field Expedient Methods in a Forward Environment.- Appendix B. Burn Diagrams and Sample Burn Orders.- Appendix C. Resources, References, and Readiness.

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew J. Martin, MD, FACS Trauma Director Madigan Army Medical Center Deployment Experience: Chief of Surgery 47th Combat Support Hospital Tikrit, Iraq 2005-2006 Chief, General Surgery and Trauma Theater Consultant for General Surgery 28th Combat Support Hospital Baghdad, Iraq 2007-2008 Alec C. Beekley, MD, FACS Staff Surgeon Madigan Army Medical Center Deployment Experience: Staff Surgeon 102nd Forward Surgical Team Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan 2002-2003 Chief of Surgery 912th Forward Surgical Team Al Mussayib, Iraq 2004 Staff Surgeon 31st Combat Support Hospital Baghdad, Iraq 2004 Director Deployed Combat Casualty Research Team 28th Combat Support Hospital Baghdad, Iraq 2007