Thoracic Trauma and Critical Care

1. Underlying Principles.- 1.1 Trauma Scores: Recent Advances.- 1.2 Care of the Multiple Injured Patient with Thoracic Trauma.- 1.3 Assessing adequacy of resuscitation.- 1.4 Reperfusion Injury.- 2. Thoracostomy, Thoracoscopy and Thoracotomy.- 2.1 Tube Thoracostomy.- 2.2 Incisions and approaches.- 2.3 ER-Thoracotomy.- 2.4 Urgent Non-ER Thoracotomy.- 2.5 Abbreviated Thoracotomy; The Evolving Role of Damage Control in Thoracic Trauma.- 2.6 Transmediastinal Gunshot Wounds.- 2.7 Role of Thoracoscopy in Chest Trauma.- 2.8 Management of Retained Hemothorax.- 2.9 Thoracotomy for Medical Arrest.- 3. Pulmonary and Airway Emergencies.- 3.1 Lung Injuries.- 3.2 Tracheo-bronchial Injuries.- 3.3 Traumatic Asphyxia.- 3.4 Pulmonary Blast Injury.- 3.5 Inhalation Injury.- 3.6 Thoracic Missile Embolism and Retained Bullets.- 3.7 Radiological Evaluation of Parenchymal Injuries.- 3.8 Airway Obstruction.- 3.9 Complications of Lung Transplantation.- 3.10 Air Embolism.- 3.11 Massive Hemoptysis.- 3.12 Tracheo-Inominant Artery Fistula.- 3.13 Hemoptysis Following Catheter Induced Ruptures of the Pulmonary Artery.- 3.14 Re-expansion Pulmonary Edema.- 3.15 Postpneumonectomy Pulmonary Edema.- 3.16 The Sonographic Detection of Pneumothoraces.- 4.0 Chest Wall Trauma.- 4.1 Pulmonary Contusion and Flail Chest: Medical Management.- 4.2 Reconstruction of Complex Chest Wall Defects.- 4.3 Chest Wall Burns.- 4.4 Chest Wall Hernia.- 4.5 Diaphragmatic Injuries.- 5.0 Esophageal Emergencies.- 5.1 Caustic Injuries.- 5.2 Esophageal trauma and perforation.- 6.0 Cardiovascular Emergencies.- 6.1 Blunt Cardiac Injury.- 6.2 Blunt Cerebrovascular Trauma.- 6.3 Penetrating Cardiac Injury.- 6.4 Management of Great Vessel Injury.- 6.5 Blunt Aortic Injury.- 6.6 Operative Management of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injuries.- 6.7 Non-operative Management of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury.- 6.8 Blunt Aortic and Great Vessel Injuries: The Role of Endovascular.- 6.9 Pharmacological Support of Shock.- 6.10 Intra-aortic Balloon Pump.- 6.11 Cardiopulmonary Bypass.- 6.12 Deep Venous Thrombosis: Prophylaxis and Treatment in the Critically Ill and Injured Patient.- 6.13 Management of Acute PE.- 6.14 Post-Operative Complications of Cardiovascular Surgery.- 7.0 Infections in the Critical Care Setting.- 7.1 Diagnosis of ventilator associated pneumonia.- 7.2 Empyema.- 7.3 Necrotizing pneumonia.- 7.4 Surgical Management of Complex Parenchymal Infections.- 7.5 Descending Necrotizing Mediastinitis.- 8.0 Respiratory Intensive Care.- 8.1 Ventilation: An Overview.- 8.2 Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- 8.3 High Frequency Ventilation.- 8.4 Pressure Control-Inverse Ratio Ventilation.- 8.5 Prone Ventilation in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- 8.6 ECMO in the surgical patient.- 8.7 Liquid Ventilation.- 8.8 The role of Nitric Oxide in Sepsis and Respiratory Failure.- 8.9 Evaluation and Management of Persistent Air Leaks in Trauma Patients.- 8.10Surgical Lung Biopsy:Indications, Techniques, Outcomes and Controversies.- 8.11 Fat Embolism.- 8.12Timing of Long Bone Fracture Fixation in Patients with Blunt Thoracic Trauma.- 8.13Acquired Neuromuscular Disorders in the Intensive Care Unit.- 8.14Weaning the chronically ventilated patient.- 8.15Tracheostomy.