Foreword Martin Giesecke; Preface; Part I. Initial Management of the Trauma Patient: 1. Mechanisms and demographics Joseph F. Golob, Jr and John J. Como; 2. Trauma in the pre-hospital environment and the emergency department Sandra Werner; 3. Trauma airway management E. Orestes O'Brien and William C. Wilson; 4. Shock management Richard P. Dutton; 5. Establishing vascular access in the trauma patient Matthew A. Joy, Donn Marciniak and Kasia Petelenz Rubin; 6. Massive blood transfusion in trauma care Joshua M. Tobin; 7. Blood loss: does it change my intravenous anesthetic? Ken Johnson and Talmage D. Egan; 8. Fluid and blood therapy in trauma Maxim Novikov and Charles E. Smith; Part II. Techniques for Monitoring, Imaging, and Pain Relief: 9. Monitoring the trauma patient Elizabeth A. Steele, P. David Soran, Donn Marciniak and Charles E. Smith; 10. Use of echocardiography and ultrasound in trauma Colin Royse and Alistair Royse; 11. Imaging in trauma Claire Sandstrom; 12. Ultrasound procedures in trauma Paul Soeding and Peter Hebbard; 13. Pharmacology of neuromuscular blocking agents and their reversal in trauma patients Francois Donati; 14. Hypothermia in trauma Eldar Sreide, Kristian Strand and Charles E. Smith; 15. Pharmacologic management of acute pain in trauma Shalini Dhir, Rakesh Sondekoppam V and Sugantha Ganapathy; 16. Regional anesthesia Shalini Dhir, Ranjita Sharma and Sugantha Ganapathy; 17. Posttrauma chronic pain David Ryan, Yashar Eshraghi and Kutaiba Tabbaa; 18. Damage control in severe trauma Michael J. A. Parr and Ulrike Buehner; 19. Mechanical ventilation of the patient following traumatic injury Roman Dudaryk, Earl Willis Weyers and Maureen McCunn; Part III. Anesthetic Considerations: 20. Head trauma: surgical issues Shoji Yokobori, Khadil Hosein and M. Ross Bullock; 21. Head trauma: anesthetic considerations and management Armagan Dagal and Arthur M. Lam; 22. Surgical considerations for spinal cord trauma Cynthia Nguyen and Timothy Moore; 23. Anesthesia for spinal cord trauma Armagan Dagal and Arthur M. Lam; 24. Oral and maxillofacial trauma: surgical considerations Marcello Guglielmi, Rishad Shaikh, Ketan P. Parekh and Cecil S. Ash; 25. Anesthesia for oral and maxillofacial trauma Olga Kaslow and Elena J. Holak; 26. Eye trauma and anesthesia Martin Dauber and Steven Roth; 27. Musculoskeletal trauma Heather A. Vallier; 28. Anesthesia considerations for musculoskeletal trauma Jeff Gadsden; 29. Cardiac and great vessel trauma Leonardo Canale, Inderjit Gill and Christopher Smith; 30. Anesthesia considerations for cardiothoracic trauma Mark A. Gerhardt and Glenn P. Gravlee; 31. Abdominal trauma: surgical considerations Jeffrey A. Claridge and Jana Hambley; 32. Anesthetic considerations for abdominal trauma Henry G. Chou and William C. Wilson; 33. Intraoperative one-lung ventilation for trauma anesthesia George W. Kanellakos and Peter Slinger; Part IV. Special Populations: 34. Pediatric trauma and anesthesia M. Jocelyn Loy; 35. Intensive care unit management of pediatric brain injury Maroun J. Mhanna, Elie Rizkala and Dennis M. Super; 36. Trauma in the elderly Jeffrey H. Silverstein; 37. Trauma in pregnancy John R. Fisgus, Kalpana Tyagaraj and Vanetta Levesque; 38. Field anesthesia and military injury Nicholas T. Tarmey, Claire L. Park, Craig C. McFarland and Peter F. Mahoney; 39. Burn injuries (critical care in severe burn injury) Charles J. Yowler; 40. Anesthesia for burns Jessica Anne Lovich-Sapola; Part V. Organization of Trauma Management: 41. Prevention of injuries James S. Davis and Carl I. Schulman; 42. Trauma systems, triage, and transfer John J. Como; 43. Teams, team training, and the role of simulation in trauma training and management Paul Barach; Index.