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01.07.2008 | Book Review
A. B. Peitzman, M. Rhodes, C. W. Schwab, D. M. Yealy, T. C. Fabian (eds): The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (3rd edition)
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, USA, 2008, Paperback 816 pp, $49.95 (amazon.com), ISBN-10: 0781762758
verfasst von:
Ari Leppäniemi
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 7/2008
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Excerpt
In the United States, the concept of Acute Care Surgery, combining trauma and critical care with emergency general surgery, has recently evolved into the leading paradigm for producing high-level specialist care to people suffering from major injuries or acute disease process threatening life or limb and requiring good decision-making skills and, often, early surgical intervention. At the same time, many trauma surgeons outside the major cities have for years been practicing elective and emergency general surgery, and trauma care has been just a part of their activities, a situation that also is common in Europe and other parts of the world. It is no surprise that some of the leading trauma surgeons in the United States who were the editors of previous edition of the Trauma Manual have expanded the scope of the new edition by including an emergency surgery section into the third edition of the manual and have renamed it The Trauma Manual: Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. …