SECTION I: TRAUMA OVERVIEW§1. Kinematics§2. Epidemiology§3. Injury Prevention§4. Trauma Systems, Triage, and Transport§5. Injury Severity Scoring and Outcomes Research§6. Acute Care Surgery§SECTION II: GENERALIZED APPROCHES TO TRAUMA PATIENT§7. Prehospital Care§8. Disaster and Mass Casualty§9. Rural Trauma§10. Initial Assessment and Management§11. Airway Management§12. Management of Shock§13. Postinjury Hemotherapy and Hemostasis§14. Emergency Department Thoracotomy§15. Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology§16. Surgeon-Performed Ultrasound in Acute Care Surgery§17. Principles of Anesthesia and Pain Management§18. Infections§SECTION III: MANAGEMENT OF SPECIFIC INJURIES§19. Injury to the Brain§20. Eye§21. Face§22. Neck§23. Vetebrae & Spinal Cord§24. Trauma Thoracotomy: Principles and Techniques§25. Lung, Trachea, & Esophagus§26. Heart and Thoracic Vascular Injuries§27. Trauma Laparotomy: Principles and Techniques§28. Diaphragm§29. Liver and Biliary Tract§30. Injury to the Spleen§31. Stomach and Small Bowel§32. Duodenum & Pancreas§33. Colon and Rectal Trauma§34. Abdominal Vascular Injury§35. Pelvis§36. Genitourinary Trauma§37. Trauma in Pregnancy§38. Trauma Damage Control§39. Upper Extremity§40. Lower Extremity§41. Peripheral Vascular Injury§SECTION IV: SPECIFIC CHALLENGES IN TRAUMA§42. Alcohol and Drugs§43. The Pediatric Patient§44. The Geriatric Patient§45. Ethics of Acute Care Surgery§46. Social Violence§47. Wounds, Bites, and Stings§48. Burns & Radiation§49. Temperature Related Syndromes: Hyperthermia, Hypothermia and Frostbite§50. Organ Procurement for Transplantation§51. Rehabilitation§52. Modern Combat Casualty Care§53. Genomics & Acute Care Surgery§54. Trauma, Medicine, and the Law§SECTION V: MANAGEMENT OF COMPLIATIONS AFTER TRAUMA§55. Principles of Critical Care§56. Cardiovascular Failure§57. Respiratory Insufficiency§58. Gastrointestinal Failure§59. Renal Failure§60. Nutritional Support and Electrolyte Management§61. Multiple Organ Failure§Atlas§Index§