RT Book, Section
A1 Thompson, Callie M.
A1 O’Keefe, Grant E.
A2 Moore, Ernest E.
A2 Feliciano, David V.
A2 Mattox, Kenneth L.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141191765
T1 Genomics and Acute Care Surgery
T2 Trauma, 8e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847292
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141191765
RD 2024/04/19
AB Outcomes  after  traumatic  injury,  perhaps  more  than  in  any  other  surgical  disease,  have  improved  through  standardization  of  care.  Nevertheless  and  despite  seemingly  ideal  care,  unexpected  outcomes  occur.  Why  do  patients  with  similar  injuries  or  severity  of  acute  illness,  despite  receiving  comparable  and  appropriate  treatment,  often  follow  different  paths?  While  one  patient  recovers  uneventfully  from  massive  transfusion  for  hemorrhagic  shock  after  a  motor  vehicle  collision,  another  follows  a  prolonged  course  complicated  by  nosocomial  pneumonia  and  organ  failure.  Consider  also,  the  seemingly  more  straightforward  task  of  preventing  or  treating  deep  venous  thromboembolic  disease.  Despite  our  understanding  of  the  biology  of  coagulation  and  pharmacotherapeutic  strategies,  venous  thromboses  and  pulmonary  emboli  still  occur,  often  with  fatal  consequences.