Editors: Todd E. Rasmussen, MD; and Nigel R.M. Tai, QHS
Publisher: Elsevier
Book Review by: Nano Khilnani

This book is unique: it is based on the real-life military experience of many of the editors and authors in the treatment of injury to blood vessels and nerves, particularly through surgeries and other treatment imperatives. The clinical experience, insight, knowledge, and perspective they have gained in the war environment have helped in making this book a very practical, relevant and useful guide for those who are involved in helping combat troops recover from injury and survive.

Sixty-eight medical doctors and surgeons from the United States and a dozen other countries – Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Finland, Israel, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom – authored the 34 chapters in five sections that constitute this unique book on vascular surgery from a military perspective.

Here is an overview of its contents:

  • Background
    • The Vascular Injury Legacy
    • Epidemiology of Vascular Surgery
    • Systems of Care in the Management of Vascular Injury
    • Pathophysiology of Vascular Trauma
  • Diagnosis and Early Management
    • Diagnosis of Vascular Injury
    • Imaging for the Evaluation and Treatment of Vascular Trauma
    • Damage Control and Immediate Resuscitation for Vascular Trauma
    • Vascular Disruption and Noncompressible Torso Hemorrhage
  • Definitive Management 
    • Cardiac, Great Vessel, and Pulmonary Injuries
    • Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury
    • Abdominal Aortic Trauma, Iliac and Visceral Vessel Injuries
    • Inferior Vena Cava, Portal, and Mesenteric Venous Systems
    • Neck and Thoracic Outlet
    • Upper Extremity and Junctional Zone Injuries
    • Lower Extremity Vascular Trauma
  • Hot Topics in Vascular Injury and Management
    • Damage Control:  Pre-hospital Care of the Patient With Vascular Injury
    • Surgical Damage Control and Temporary Vascular Shunts
    • Damage Control: Considerations for Vascular Conduit in the Repair of Vascular Injury
    • Endovascular Management of Acute Vascular Injury
    • Pediatric Vascular Injury
    • Inferior Vena Cava Filters
    • Soft-Tissue and Skeletal Wound Management in the Setting of Vascular Injury
    • Vascular Surgery in the Austere Environment
    • Vascular Trauma: Training the Surgeon of the Future
  • International Perspectives
    • Australia and New Zealand
    • Asia: Sri Lanka
    • Europe: Croatia
    • Scandinavia and Northern Europe
    • Europe: Russia
    • Europe: Serbia
    • Vascular Trauma in Israel
    • South Africa
    • Vascular Trauma in Latin America
    • Implications of Vascular Trauma in Brazil

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Material in the chapters is very simply organized. Each chapter has the following components:

  • Introduction
  • Discussion of topics
  • Discussion of subtopics
  • Summary or Conclusion
  • References

You will find the following visual graphics in between the text to help you understand and retain information:

  • Angiograms
  • Arteriograms
  • Charts
  • Computer tomography (CT)
  • Doppler
  • Images of various other types
  • Sketches
  • Tables
  • Ultrasound

Many of the vivid, full-color photos provided are of the surgical procedures for you to see how they were performed.

This book provides coverage of all the phases of vascular trauma care, from the point of injury to pre-hospital settings, to the emergency department, to the operating room, to the intensive care unit.  This book also has a section called International Perspectives with ten chapters written by doctors in different parts of the world.

This book also presents material contributed by those who have a large range of backgrounds, including emergency medicine, pre-hospital care, and various trauma systems; and experience in different types of surgery including general, orthopedic, plastic, trauma, and vascular surgery. This is indeed a one-of-a kind book.

 

Editors:

Todd E. Rasmussen, MD, FACS is Colonel USAF MC, Director of U.S. Combat Casualty Care Research Program in Fort Detrick, Maryland; Harris B. Shumacker Jr. Professor of Surgery in the Norman M. Rich Department of Surgery at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland; and Attending Vascular and Trauma Surgeon at Veterans Administration Medical Center, and University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

Nigel R.M. Tai, QH, MS, FRCS (Gen) is Colonel, L/RAMC, Clinical Director of Trauma Services at Royal London Hospital Barts Health NHS Trust in London, United Kingdom;  Senior Lecturer in the Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma at Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham, UK; and Consultant in the 16 Medical Regiment in Colchester, Essex, UK.