Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery

This book will help you take a badly wounded patient to the operating room, organize yourself and your team, do battle with some vicious injuries and come out with the best possible result. It is a practical guide to operative trauma surgery for residents and registrars, for general surgeons with an interest in trauma, and for isolated surgeons operating on wounded patients in military, rural or humanitarian settings. A surgical atlas may show you what to do with your hands but not how to think, plan and improvise. Here you will find practical advice on how to use your head as well as your hands when operating on a massively bleeding trauma patient. The first part of this book presents some general principles of trauma surgery. The second part is about trauma surgery as a contact sport. Here we show you how to deal with specific injuries to the abdomen, chest, neck and peripheral vessels.

The single most important lesson we hope you will derive from this book is to always keep it simple because, in trauma surgery, the simple stuff works.

Asher Hirshberg MD FACS, Associate Professor, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine. Director of Vascular Surgery, Chief, Blue Surgery Service, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

Kenneth L Mattox MD FACS, Professor and Vice Chair, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Chief of Staff, Chief of Surgery, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

Illustrator, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA