Recent advances and future directions in trauma care (Saunders, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Foreword: Recent advances and future directions in trauma care [by Ronald F. Martin] -- Preface: Recent advances and future directions in trauma care [by LtCol Jeremy W. Cannon] -- Invited commentary: Recent advances and future directions in trauma care [by Col. H. Blackbourne] -- Prehospital emergency trauma care and management -- Noncompressible torso hemorrhage: a review with contemporary definitions and management strategies -- The evolution of damage control surgery -- Toward hemostatic resuscitation: the changing understanding of acute traumatic biology, massive bleeding, and damage-control resuscitation -- Improving trauma care in the ICU: best practices, quality improvement initiatives, and organization -- Advanced technologies in trauma critical care management -- Long-range critical care evacuation and reoperative surgery -- Spectrum of traumatic brain injury from mild to severe -- Evolving changes in the management of burns and environmental injuries -- Management of complex extremity injuries: tourniquets, compartment syndrome detection, fasciotomy, and amputation care -- Verification and regionalization of trauma systems: the impact of these efforts on trauma care in the United States -- Trauma system configurations in other countries: the Israeli model -- Research and analytics in combat trauma care: converting data and experience to practical guidelines -- Graduate medical education in trauma/critical care and acute care surgery: defining goals for a new workforce