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Acute care surgery / editors, L.D. Britt ... [et.al].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emergency Treatment--methods.
- Surgical Procedures, Operative--methods.
- Wounds and Injuries--surgery.
- Surgical emergencies.
- Wounds and injuries--Surgery.
- Wounds and injuries.
- Critical care medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Emergency Treatment--methods.
- Surgical Procedures, Operative--methods.
- Wounds and Injuries--surgery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (844 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- You wont find a more comprehensive textbook covering the related fields of trauma, critical care, and emergency general surgery than Acute Care Surgery. Relying totally on evidence-based content rather than theory, each of the 64 chapters in this book highlights cutting edge advances in the field and underscores state-of-the-art management paradigms. The overarching principle of acute care surgery is early and expedient medical/surgical intervention and this book offers the reference material every trauma, critical care, and emergency room surgeon needs to deliver on that principle.
- Contents:
- section 1. Fundamental principles
- section 2. Trauma
- section 3. Emergency (non-trauma) surgery : evaluation and management
- section 4. Surgical critical care
- section 5. Special topics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781451153934
- 1451153937
- 9781469880358
- 1469880350
- OCLC:
- 810314029
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