Contents
Contributing Authors v
Series Preface ix
Preface xi
Video Contents List xv
Section i Thermal Injury
 1  Burn Surgery: Escharotomy, Excision, and 
Split- Thickness Skin Grafting 1
Natalie J.Hodges and Sharmila Dissanaike
 2  Frostbite and Hypothermia: Surgical 
Management 7
Natalie J. Hodges and Sharmila Dissanaike
 3  Electrical Bur ns 10
Natalie J. Hodges and Sharmila Dissanaike
 Section ii Infection
 4  Decision- Making and Operative Management 
of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections 13
Lisa Rae and Jeffery H. Anderson
 Section iii  Traumatic Injury to the Chest Wall, 
Pleura, and Diaphragm
 5  Rib Plating 19
Mitchell D. Gorman, Sagar S. Kadakia, and  
Joshua A. Marks
 6  Needle Decompression, Tube Thoracostomy, 
Thoracentesis 27
Jennifer T. Cone and Selwyn O. Rogers Jr.
 7  Pleur odesis 35
Jennifer T. Cone and Selwyn O. Rogers Jr.
 8  Video- Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery for 
Retained Hemothorax and Empyema 39
Morgan Schellenberg and Kenji Inaba
 9  Repair of Diaphragmatic Injury  
(Primary and Mesh) 45
Noelle N. Saillant and George C. Velmahos
 Section iV Thoracic Traumatic Injuries
 10  Thoracic Incisions: Median Sternotomy, 
Anterolateral Thoracotomy, Bilateral 
Thoracotomy, Posterolateral Thoracotomy 50
Christina L. Jacovides and Mark J. Seamon
 11  Pericardial Window: Subxiphoid,  
Parasternal 60
Christofer B. Anderson and Sharven Taghavi
 12  Repair of Cardiac Injury 65
Zoë Maher, Valeda Yong, and Jessica H. Beard
 13  Surgical Management of Lung  
Trauma: Tractotomy, Wedge Resection,  
and Lobectomy 73
Arvin C. Gee and Karen J. Brasel
 14  Pneumonectomy for Trauma 80
Lars Ola Sjoholm, Craig J. Profant, and  
Thomas A. Santora
 15  Arterial: Subclavian, Thoracic Aorta, 
Endovascular 88
Lisbi del Valle Rivas Ramirez, Natalie M. Wall, and 
Paula Ferrada
 16  Thoracic Vascular Injury—Venous: 
Brachiocephalic Vein, Subclavian Vein 92
Michael A. Vella, Michael J. Nabozny,  
Adam Joseph Doyle, and Nicole A. Stassen
 Section V Injury to the Neck
 17  Incisions: Anterior Sternocleidomastoid 
Incision, Collar Incision 99
Scott A. Zakaluzny and Joseph M. Galante
 18  Upper Aerodigestive Tract Injury: Trachea 104
John Andrew Harvin and Rushabh Prakash Devxiv ConTEnTS
19  Surgical Management of Injuries to the 
Cervical Esophagus 108
James P. Byrne and Patrick M. Reilly
20  Repair of Internal and External Carotid 
Injury 115
Melike N. Harfouche and Rosemary A. Kozar
21  Vascular Injury—Neck: Internal Jugular 
Vein 120
Jennifer E. Reid and Deborah M. Stein
Section Vi  Traumatic Injury to the 
Gastrointestinal Tract
22  T rauma Lapar otomy 126
S. Ariane Christie and Andrew B. Peitzman
23  Gastric and Small Bowel Injury: Primary 
Repair, Resection, Anastomosis, Wedge 
Resection 136
Alex Helkin and Carrie Sims
24  Colon and Rectal Injury: Primary Repair, 
Resection and Anastomosis, Colostomy 145
Louis Jude Magnotti, Devanshi D. Patel, and  
Martin A. Croce
25  Extraperitoneal Rectal Injury: Colostomy, 
Presacral Drains 152
Anne H. Warner and Kevin M. Bradley
Section Vii  Traumatic Injury to the Duodenum 
and Pancreas
26 Operative Management of Duodenal 
Injury 157
David I. Hindin and David A. Spain
27 Pancreas: Drainage, Distal Pancreatectomy/
Splenectomy 163
Kojo Wallace, Randi N. Smith, and  
Christopher J. Dente
Section Viii  Traumatic Injury to the Spleen  
and Liver
28 Splenic Injury: Splenectomy and 
Splenorrhaphy 167
Lucy Ruangvoravat and Kimberly A. Davis
29 Surgical Management of Hepatic Trauma 173
Walter L. Biffl Section iX  Traumatic Injury to the  
Genitourinary Tract
30 Genitourinary Injury—Kidney: Renorrhaphy, 
Nephrectomy 182
 31 Genitourinary Injury—Bladder: 
Extraperitoneal, Intraperitoneal 188
John Donkersloot and Pauline K. Park
 32 Ureter: Proximal Third, Middle Third,  
Distal Third 194
Irma J. Lengu, Esther S. Tseng, and  
John J. Como
 Section X  Pelvic Fractur e/Retr operitoneal 
Hematoma
 33 Preperitoneal Pelvic Packing 204
Kaitlin A. Ritter and Clay Cothren Burlew
 Section Xi Vascular Injury—Abdominal
 34 Zone I Injuries 210
Caroline Park and Joseph P. Minei
 35 Abdominal Vascular Injury Zone II 225
Melike N. Harfouche and David T. Efron
 36 Abdominal Vascular Injury Zone III 230
Elizabeth Dauer and Abhijit S. Pathak
 Section Xii Vascular Injury: Extremities
 37 Lower Extremity Vascular Trauma—
Femoral and Popliteal With Infrapopliteal 
Fasciotomy 237
Kelly M. Sutter and Christine T. Trankiem
 38 Upper Extremity: Axillary, Brachial, Radial/
Ulnar Fasciotomy 250
Brian K. Yorkgitis, Jeanette Zhang, and  
Matthew P. Kochuba
 Section Xiii Trauma in Pregnancy
 39 Trauma Cesarean Section 262
Tracey A. Dechert, Tejal Sudhirkumar Brahmbhatt, 
and Aaron Powel Richman
 Section XiV Supportive Procedures
 40 Cricothyroidotomy 266
Bennett J. Berning and Marc Anthony de Moya
 41 Tracheostomy: Open and Percutaneous 270
Bennett J. Berning and Marc Anthony de Moya
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