Contents
Contributing Authors v
Series Preface ix
Preface xi
Video Contents List xv
Section i Thermal Injury
1 Burn Surgery: Escharotomy, Excision, and
Split- Thickness Skin Grafting 1
Natalie J.Hodges and Sharmila Dissanaike
2 Frostbite and Hypothermia: Surgical
Management 7
Natalie J. Hodges and Sharmila Dissanaike
3 Electrical Bur ns 10
Natalie J. Hodges and Sharmila Dissanaike
Section ii Infection
4 Decision- Making and Operative Management
of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections 13
Lisa Rae and Jeffery H. Anderson
Section iii Traumatic Injury to the Chest Wall,
Pleura, and Diaphragm
5 Rib Plating 19
Mitchell D. Gorman, Sagar S. Kadakia, and
Joshua A. Marks
6 Needle Decompression, Tube Thoracostomy,
Thoracentesis 27
Jennifer T. Cone and Selwyn O. Rogers Jr.
7 Pleur odesis 35
Jennifer T. Cone and Selwyn O. Rogers Jr.
8 Video- Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for
Retained Hemothorax and Empyema 39
Morgan Schellenberg and Kenji Inaba
9 Repair of Diaphragmatic Injury
(Primary and Mesh) 45
Noelle N. Saillant and George C. Velmahos
Section iV Thoracic Traumatic Injuries
10 Thoracic Incisions: Median Sternotomy,
Anterolateral Thoracotomy, Bilateral
Thoracotomy, Posterolateral Thoracotomy 50
Christina L. Jacovides and Mark J. Seamon
11 Pericardial Window: Subxiphoid,
Parasternal 60
Christofer B. Anderson and Sharven Taghavi
12 Repair of Cardiac Injury 65
Zoë Maher, Valeda Yong, and Jessica H. Beard
13 Surgical Management of Lung
Trauma: Tractotomy, Wedge Resection,
and Lobectomy 73
Arvin C. Gee and Karen J. Brasel
14 Pneumonectomy for Trauma 80
Lars Ola Sjoholm, Craig J. Profant, and
Thomas A. Santora
15 Arterial: Subclavian, Thoracic Aorta,
Endovascular 88
Lisbi del Valle Rivas Ramirez, Natalie M. Wall, and
Paula Ferrada
16 Thoracic Vascular Injury—Venous:
Brachiocephalic Vein, Subclavian Vein 92
Michael A. Vella, Michael J. Nabozny,
Adam Joseph Doyle, and Nicole A. Stassen
Section V Injury to the Neck
17 Incisions: Anterior Sternocleidomastoid
Incision, Collar Incision 99
Scott A. Zakaluzny and Joseph M. Galante
18 Upper Aerodigestive Tract Injury: Trachea 104
John Andrew Harvin and Rushabh Prakash Devxiv ConTEnTS
19 Surgical Management of Injuries to the
Cervical Esophagus 108
James P. Byrne and Patrick M. Reilly
20 Repair of Internal and External Carotid
Injury 115
Melike N. Harfouche and Rosemary A. Kozar
21 Vascular Injury—Neck: Internal Jugular
Vein 120
Jennifer E. Reid and Deborah M. Stein
Section Vi Traumatic Injury to the
Gastrointestinal Tract
22 T rauma Lapar otomy 126
S. Ariane Christie and Andrew B. Peitzman
23 Gastric and Small Bowel Injury: Primary
Repair, Resection, Anastomosis, Wedge
Resection 136
Alex Helkin and Carrie Sims
24 Colon and Rectal Injury: Primary Repair,
Resection and Anastomosis, Colostomy 145
Louis Jude Magnotti, Devanshi D. Patel, and
Martin A. Croce
25 Extraperitoneal Rectal Injury: Colostomy,
Presacral Drains 152
Anne H. Warner and Kevin M. Bradley
Section Vii Traumatic Injury to the Duodenum
and Pancreas
26 Operative Management of Duodenal
Injury 157
David I. Hindin and David A. Spain
27 Pancreas: Drainage, Distal Pancreatectomy/
Splenectomy 163
Kojo Wallace, Randi N. Smith, and
Christopher J. Dente
Section Viii Traumatic Injury to the Spleen
and Liver
28 Splenic Injury: Splenectomy and
Splenorrhaphy 167
Lucy Ruangvoravat and Kimberly A. Davis
29 Surgical Management of Hepatic Trauma 173
Walter L. Biffl Section iX Traumatic Injury to the
Genitourinary Tract
30 Genitourinary Injury—Kidney: Renorrhaphy,
Nephrectomy 182
31 Genitourinary Injury—Bladder:
Extraperitoneal, Intraperitoneal 188
John Donkersloot and Pauline K. Park
32 Ureter: Proximal Third, Middle Third,
Distal Third 194
Irma J. Lengu, Esther S. Tseng, and
John J. Como
Section X Pelvic Fractur e/Retr operitoneal
Hematoma
33 Preperitoneal Pelvic Packing 204
Kaitlin A. Ritter and Clay Cothren Burlew
Section Xi Vascular Injury—Abdominal
34 Zone I Injuries 210
Caroline Park and Joseph P. Minei
35 Abdominal Vascular Injury Zone II 225
Melike N. Harfouche and David T. Efron
36 Abdominal Vascular Injury Zone III 230
Elizabeth Dauer and Abhijit S. Pathak
Section Xii Vascular Injury: Extremities
37 Lower Extremity Vascular Trauma—
Femoral and Popliteal With Infrapopliteal
Fasciotomy 237
Kelly M. Sutter and Christine T. Trankiem
38 Upper Extremity: Axillary, Brachial, Radial/
Ulnar Fasciotomy 250
Brian K. Yorkgitis, Jeanette Zhang, and
Matthew P. Kochuba
Section Xiii Trauma in Pregnancy
39 Trauma Cesarean Section 262
Tracey A. Dechert, Tejal Sudhirkumar Brahmbhatt,
and Aaron Powel Richman
Section XiV Supportive Procedures
40 Cricothyroidotomy 266
Bennett J. Berning and Marc Anthony de Moya
41 Tracheostomy: Open and Percutaneous 270
Bennett J. Berning and Marc Anthony de Moya
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