Trauma Surgery is the last great frontier of general surgery. Only a well-trained and experienced trauma surgeon will venture into any trauma territory ,be it neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis and limbs, no matter what the danger of massive haemorrhage.

Mansoor Khan, Morgan McMonagle

Foreword

Preface

Editors

Contributors

1. The Philosophy of Damage Control

Daniel Grabo, Patrick Reilly and C. William Schwab

2. Ballistics and Blast Injury

David M. Nott, Mansoor Khan and Morgan McMonagle

3. Emergency Surgical Airway

Morgan McMonagle

4. Thoracic Surgery

James V. O'Connor

5. Vascular Trauma

Morgan McMonagle

6. Fasciotomy of the Extremities

Mark W. Bowyer

7. Damage Control for Severe Pelvic Haemorrhage in Trauma

John H. Armstrong

8. Trauma Laparotomy and Damage Control Laparotomy

David M. Nott

9. Abdominal Trauma

Mansoor Khan

10. Future of Trauma Surgery: Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA)

Philip J. Wasicek, Thomas M. Scalea and Jonathan J. Morrison

Index