Guest editor:
James S. Gregory, MD,FACS
Geisinger Health System, Pennsylvania, USA
The Special Edition is divided into three general topic areas:
1. Initial Management and Assessment of the Trauma Patient, Novel Surgical Approaches and Invasive Procedures for Unusual/Complex Problems, Interventions in the ICU for complex patients;
2. Initial Management and Assessment of the Trauma Patient;
3. 1. Novel Surgical Approaches and Invasive Procedures for Unusual/Complex Problems.
Preface
Special problems in trauma and surgical critical care
Review Article
Trauma care in China: A Systematic Review
Zhongheng Zhang1, Yucai Hong1, James S. Gregory2
Surgical Interventions for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Reginald Fong, Sanjay Konakondla, Clemens M. Schirmer, Michel Lacroix
Novel use of Interventional Radiology in Trauma
Sunil Jeph, Saif Ahmed, Ruchika Dua Bhatt, Luis L. Nadal, Ashok Bhanushali
Integration of Bedside Ultrasound into the ICU – A Review of Indications, Techniques and Interventions
Nathaniel Balmert, Jairo Espinosa, Mohamed-Omar Arafeh, Joseph Costello, Stephanie Markle
Assessment of the Pediatric Trauma Patient: Differences in Approach
Alfred P. Kennedy, Ronald J. Scorpio, Christopher P. Coppola
Sedation of the trauma patient in the ICU
Anna Joseph
Interventional and operative procedures in complex and poly-trauma
Benjamin N. Cragun, Eunice L. Chung, Allan S. Philp
ATLS and Trauma Team Training in the Netherlands
Walter Henny
Management of severe respiratory failure in complex trauma patients
Matthew R. Noorbakhsh, Isaac R. Kriley
Management of severe chest wall trauma
Noelle Nugent Saillant, Vicki Sein
Lower extremity traumatic amputations—brief review of reconstruction, wound and soft tissue management, alternatives to conventional practice
Christian W. Ertl
More are coming......
