Trauma Across the Continuum, An Issue of Surgical Clinics The Clinics: Surgery Series

In this issue of Surgical Clinics, guest editor Dr. Marcie Feinman brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Trauma Across the Continuum. Top experts discuss a full range of topics in trauma surgery, including demographics, triage, resuscitation, social disparities, as well as individual traumas such as head, chest, pelvis, and mangled extremity. Additional articles cover trauma in the elderly, nutritional support, and teaching and learning during trauma.

• Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including trauma demographics and injury prevention; disparities in, and societal burden of, trauma care; prehospital trauma care; resuscitation and care in the trauma bay; trauma bay evaluation for decision-making; and more.
• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on trauma across the continuum, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Trauma Demographics and Injury Prevention
Societal Burden of Trauma and Disparities in Trauma Care
Prehospital Trauma Care
Resuscitation and Care in the Trauma Bay
Trauma Bay Evaluation and Resuscitative Decision-Making
The Role of Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta
Management of Head Trauma
Management of Blunt Chest Trauma
Damage Control Laparotomy and Management of the Open Abdomen
Management of Pelvic Trauma
Management of the Mangled Extremity
Nutritional Support in Critically Ill Trauma Patients
Management of the Geriatric Trauma Patient
The Role of Minimally Invasive Surgeries in Trauma
Teaching Before, During, and After a Surgical Resuscitation