Acute Care Surgery

General Principles.- Initial Assessment and Early Resuscitation.- The Operating Theater for Acute Care Surgery.- Anesthesia and Acute Care Surgery.- Fundamental Operative Approaches in Acute Care Surgery.- The Perioperative Management of the Acute Care Surgical Patient.- The Hemodynamically Labile Patient: Cardiovascular Adjuncts and Assist Devices.- Principles and Practice of Nutritional Support for Surgical Patients.- The Intensive Care Unit: The Next-Generation Operating Room.- Burns.- Electrical and Lightning Injuries.- Soft Tissue Infections.- The Open Abdomen: Management from Initial Laparotomy to Definitive Closure.- Acute Care Surgery and the Elderly.- Acute Care Surgery in the Rural Setting.- Prehospital Care in the Acute Setting.- Disaster and Mass Casualty Management.- Principles of Injury Prevention and Control.- Education: Surgical Simulation in Acute Care Surgery.- Organ-Based Approach.- Pharynx and Larynx.- Head and Neck: Pediatrics.- Esophagus.- Central Nervous System.- Chest Wall.- Lungs and Pleura.- Heart.- Thoracic Aorta.- Diaphragm.- Abdominal Wall.- Foregut.- Small Intestine.- Liver and Biliary Tract.- Pancreas.- Spleen.- Intraabdominal Vasculature.- Colon and Rectum.- Urogenital Tract.- Pelvis.- Lower Extremities.- Hand and Upper Extremities.- Peripheral Vasculature.- Administration, Ethics, and Law.- Understanding the Latest Changes in EMTALA: Our Country’s Emergency Care Safety Net.- Informed Surgical Consent.- Advance Directives.- The Nonviable Patient and Organ Procurement.- Ethical Dilemmas and the Law.- System and Curriculum Development.- Development of a Regional System for Surgical Emergencies (RSSE).- Acute Care Surgery: A Proposed Curriculum.- Emergency General Surgery: The Vanderbilt Model.- The International Communities.- Acute Care Surgery: United Kingdom.- Acute Care Surgery: Australia.- Acute Care Surgery: Japan.