This textbook is a fully updated and revised third edition of a highly successful practical guide to the care of the polytrauma patient. Broadening its readership to students, this new edition comprehensively describes the clinical course of multiple and severe injuries, from the accident scene to rehabilitation.
It provides essential practical information on the care of patients both with blunt and penetrating trauma to multiple body regions, and discusses the management of truncal injuries (head, chest, abdomen) as well as fractures of the extremities, pelvis and spine. Further, the book highlights associated injuries that may alter decisions concerning patients with polytrauma.
This new, revised edition takes full account of recent developments, including the increasing economic pressure on health care systems, prehospital treatment, changes in trauma systems and related education, and the improved survival of polytrauma patients. Also covering improved monitoring options along with issues in late patient outcomes and rehabilitation this work will greatly assist students, emergency personnel, trauma surgeons, orthopaedic traumatologists, and anesthesiologists.
Hans-Christoph Pape graduated in 1988 from Hannover Medical School, where he then completed a residency in trauma surgery. He was appointed Full Professor of Trauma Surgery at the School in 2000. Between 2003 and 2005 Dr. Pape was also a Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School, the University of Alabama, and the University of Texas. In 2005 he was appointed Associate Professor in Traumatology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, and he is currently W. Pauwels Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic/Trauma Surgery at the University of Aachen Medical Center, Germany. During his career, Dr. Pape has received many awards of note, including the Novartis Prize (2005), the Swiss AO Foundation Annual Award (2006), and the Kappa Delta Award from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (2008). He is the Editor in Chief for Open Access Emergency Medicine and a Section Editor for Injury and the European Journal of Trauma. Dr. Pape has been the lead author on 81 publications in peer-reviewed journals and co-author of a further 220. He is also the editor or author of several important books and has led many courses on polytrauma management.
Joseph Borrelli Jr graduated from the University of South Florida, College of Medicine in 1988, while gaining membership of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He subsequently specialized in orthopaedic trauma, becoming Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Chief of the Orthopaedic Trauma Service at Washington University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, MO. In 2006 he was awarded the Dr. Charles F. Gregory Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery and the W.B. Carrell Professorship of Orthopaedic Surgery at University of Texas – Southwestern Medical Center. In 2011 Dr. Borrelli was appointed Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital. While at Washington University, Dr. Borrelli was awarded the Palma Chironis Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Lee T. Ford Award for Academic Achievement and the Jerome J. Gilden Distinguished Physician Award. During his time at WU he was awarded the ASG (Austria, Switzerland, Germany) Traveling Fellowship sponsored by the American Orthopaedic Association. He is a member of several editorial boards and is currently the Section Editor for Value Based Care Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. Dr. Borrelli is a Fellow of the AAOS, a long-time member of the Orthopedic Trauma Association and was recently nominated as a Fellow of International OTA). Dr. Borrelli has authored and published dozens of peer-reviewed articles, multiple book chapters, and has been a Co-editor of several text books of orthopedic surgery.
Ernest Moore has been the editor of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery since 2012, and was the chief of trauma at the Denver General Hospital for 36 years, chief of surgery for 28 years, and the first Bruce M. Rockwell Distinguished Chair in Trauma Surgery. He continues to serve as vice chairman for Research and is a Distinguished Professor of Surgery at the University of Colorado Denver. Dr. Moore has served as president of 10 academic societies, including the Society of University Surgeons, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, International Association for the Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care, and the World Society of Emergency Surgery.
Roman Pfeifer, MD is consultant of Trauma Surgery at the Department of Traumatology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. He studied medicine at Hannover Medical School (MHH, Germany) and performed a scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA. He was resident at the Department of Orthopedic Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Aachen, Germany, and is board certified trauma surgeon (2017) and became a Fellow of European Board of Surgeons (FEBS, EBSQ exam).
Philip F. Stahel is the Chief Medical Officer at The Medical Center of Aurora in Colorado, and Professor of Orthopedics and Neurosurgery at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Phil trained at the University Hospital of Zurich, University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland, and at Charité University Medical Center in Berlin, Germany, and he accomplished a research fellowship in Neuroimmunology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Phil is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Patient Safety in Surgery and the editor of several textbooks in the field of patient safety, including “Patient Safety in Surgery” (2014), “Blood, Sweat and Tears – Becoming a Better Surgeon” (2016), and “Surgical Patient Safety: A case-based approach” (2018).
