Author: Vicente Gracias
Edition: 1
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0071472908
Acute Care Surgery: A Guide for General Surgeons
Sharpen your skills in 3 surgical specialties--with this one complete sourcebook
A Doody's Core Title for 2011!
"The book is easy to read, logical, insightful, and clearly meant for practicing surgeons. Medical books Acute Care Surgery. Chapters are brief and suitable for quick reading by the surgeon facing an emergency... Medical books Common Problems in Acute Care Surgery. The current medical literature contains ample text addressing the topics of trauma and critical care. However, there are few texts existing that specifically address the common surgical problems encountered by practicing acute care surgeons. Common Problems in Acute Care Surgery provides a comprehensive, evidence-based review of the most common clinical problems encountered by acute care surgeons. Focusing on the clinical care of the patient, this volume explores the general principles of acute care surgery and the specific disease states that are commonly encountered by acute care surgeons. The work also touches upon the ethical issues and systems development behind acute care surgery, including practical considerations for establishing an acute care surgery program, ethical considerations in acute care surgery, and the role of palliative care.
Authored by respected experts in the field and illustrated throughout with detailed photographs, Common Problems in Acute Care Surgery is of great value to resident surgeons in training, fellows, and practicing surgeons in acute care surgery.
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Medical Book Acute Care Surgery
Chapters are brief and suitable for quick reading by the surgeon facing an emergency....Throughout, there is major emphasis on figures and easy-to-follow diagnostic and management algorithms, which makes it easy for readers to grasp the essential message....I am certain that Acute Care Surgery: A Guide for the General Surgeon is destined to have a large readership."--JAMA
"This book can be recommended for its well written chapters introducing generalists to principles of critical care. 3 Stars." Doody's Review Service
Acute Care Surgery: A Guide for the General Surgeon delivers 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 Surgery is 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
