RT Book, Section
A1 Griepentrog, John E.
A1 Lewis, Anthony J.
A1 Rosengart, Matthew R.
A1 Peitzman, Andrew B.
A2 Feliciano, David V.
A2 Mattox, Kenneth L.
A2 Moore, Ernest E.
SR Print(0)
ID 1175130688
T1 Acute Care Surgery
T2 Trauma, 9e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260143348
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175130688
RD 2024/04/19
AB KEY  POINTSAcute  care  surgery  includes  trauma,  emergency  general  surgery,  surgical  critical  care,  elective  general  surgery,  and  surgical  rescue.The  need  for  expeditious  source  control  is  imperative  whether  we  are  dealing  with  a  trauma  patient  with  a  ruptured  spleen  or  the  emergency  general  surgery  patient  with  a  perforated  viscus.Treat  the  patient  empirically.  Determining  a  specific  diagnosis  or  injury  is  not  the  immediate  goal.Secure  the  airway,  initiate  fluid/blood  resuscitation,  and  administer  early  broad-spectrum  antibiotics  if  sepsis  is  in  the  clinical  picture.In  any  critically  ill  patient,  resuscitate  the  patient  according  to  Advanced  Trauma  Life  Support  guidelines.