Overview
- Written by experts ?across multiple disciplines
- Authors have vast experience with severe neurotrauma
- Addresses many of the questions which occur when medical professionals of various disciplines interact
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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General Principles and Trauma System Management
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Arrival at Facility
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The Operating Room/Damage Control
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About the editors
Dr. Ecklund’s primary clinical and research interests include complex spine, cerebrovascular disease and neurotrauma with an emphasis on blast and penetrating injury. He directs a neurotrauma laboratory at the Uniformed Services University, has over 100 publications and abstracts, and has lectured throughout the world. He also has served on multiple oversight and advisory boards for the Veterans Administration, Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, NATO, Neurotrauma Foundation, and Brain Trauma Foundation.
Leon E. Moores, MD, MS, FACS is the CEO of Pediatric Specialists of Virginia and the Associate Chair for Pediatric Programs at the Inova Neuroscience Institute. He retired as a Colonel from the US Army where he led as an Infantry Platoon Leader, Chief of Neurosurgery at Walter Reed, Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Walter Reed, Deputy Commander of the National Naval Medical Center, and Commander of the Fort Meade Medical System. Dr Moores also served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Dr Moores’ clinical and research interests center on brain and spinal tumors in children, CNS infections in combat soldiers, and complex craniofacial reconstruction in severe head and facial trauma. He is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University, and a Professor of Neurosurgery at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neurotrauma Management for the Severely Injured Polytrauma Patient
Editors: James M. Ecklund, Leon E. Moores
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40208-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40206-2Published: 19 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82053-8Published: 28 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40208-6Published: 12 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosurgery, Traumatic Surgery, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine