1st Edition

Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery

Edited By Mansoor Khan, David Nott Copyright 2021
    260 Pages
    by CRC Press

    260 Pages
    by CRC Press

    Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery is an easy to read text, written by world class faculty, that provides clinicians with succinct and didactic information about what to do in high intensity, resource limited situations.With global conflicts and humanitarian emergencies on the rise, there has been a dramatic uptake in the number of volunteers for both military and humanitarian operations. This manual aids best practice and fast decision making in the field.

    Forewords

    Preface

    Editors

    Contributors

    1. The Resource-Limited Environment

    Mansoor Khan and David Nott

    2. Patterns of Injury

    Danyal Magnus, Katherine A. Brown, Mansoor Khan, and William Proud

    3. Damage Control Resuscitation

    Mark Midwinter

    4. No Blood . . . What to Do?

    Avi Benov, Roy Nadler, Avishai M. Tsur, Ori Yaslowitz, Andrew P. Cap, Mark H. Yazer, and Elon Glassberg

    5. Point-of-Care Ultrasound

    Carlos Augusto M. Menegozzo and Bruno M. Pereira

    6. Thoracic Injury Management

    David R. King and James V. O’Connor

    7. Junctional and Extremity Vascular Trauma

    David S. Kauvar and Mohammed Mar’ae Asieri

    8. Trauma Laparotomy and Damage Control Laparotomy

    Carrie Valdez and David Nott

    9. Damage Control for Severe Pelvic Haemorrhage in Trauma

    Kristin Hummel and John H. Armstrong

    10. Abdominal Injuries

    Viktor Reva and Boris Kessel

    11. Acute Care Emergency Surgery

    Marcelo A.F. Ribeiro and Mansoor Khan

    12. Frontline Consideration for Paediatric Emergency and Trauma Surgery

    Nicholas Alexander

    13. RLE Orthopaedic Injury Management

    Jowan Penn-Barwell and Daniel Christopher Allison

    14. Neurotrauma in the Field

    Kevin Tsang

    15. Management of Ballistic Face and Neck Trauma in an Austere Setting

    Johno Breeze

    16. Management of Ophthalmic Injuries by the Forward Surgical Team

    Richard J. Blanch, Johno Breeze, and William G. Gensheimer

    17. Resource-Limited Environment Plastic Surgery

    Johann A. Jeevaratnam, Charles Anton Fries, Dimitrios Kanakopoulos, Paul J.H. Drake, and Lorraine Harry

    18. Acute Acoustic Trauma and Blast-Related Hearing Loss

    Jameel Muzaffar, Christopher Coulson, Jonathan D.E. Lee, and Linda E. Orr

    19. Obstetrics in Limited-Resource Settings

    Carlos Pilasi Menichetti and Rebekka Troller

    Index

    Biography

    Mansoor Khan MBBS(Lond) PhD PGDip FRCS(GenSurg) FEBS(GenSurg) FACS AKC is a Consultant Oesophagogastric, Trauma and General as well as Honorary Clinical Professor of Trauma Surgery at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals. He has recently retired from the Royal Navy, at the rank of Surgeon Commander after completing over two decades of military service with distinction. After graduation from King’s College London in 2000, he undertook his House Officer training in Plymouth and Portsmouth, followed by three years of military posts. In November 2001 he graduated from Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and was deployed in the Northern Arabian Gulf on military operations upon completion. The remainder of his General Duties saw deployments in the Baltic and North Sea on NATO’s Immediate Reaction Force of Minehunters, the 2003 Gulf War and Counter narcotics deployment in the Caribbean.

    David Nott trained to be a doctor at St Andrews and Manchester University and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and was subsequently awarded an MD for a thesis on Liver Surgery in 1989 from Manchester. He is a full-time NHS surgeon specialising in General, Vascular, Sarcoma and Trauma Surgery at St Marys Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. Alongside a very busy civilian job, working in very busy major teaching hospitals he has for the past 25 years taken unpaid leave from the NHS to volunteer to work for the major aid agencies and has worked in 27 areas of conflict most notably and recently in Syria. He has also worked in areas of natural disasters as in the earthquakes that affected Haiti and Nepal.

    'This is an excellent course on the surgical approaches to crisis care from an international group of authorities. The book makes excellent use of illustrations and references to support the text.'

    -David James Dries, MSE MD(University of Minnesota Medical School)