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The third edition of the Color Atlas of Emergency Trauma brings the reader to the bedside of patients with traumatic injuries, at one of the largest and busiest trauma centers in North America. It includes over 1200 images, designed as a comprehensive visual and reference guide to emergency trauma care. Organized by major body regions, this atlas explores the full spectrum of common and uncommon traumatic injuries, including those caused by firearms, stab wounds, blunt trauma, crush injury, and burns. It also covers special patient groups, such as pregnant, pediatric and geriatric populations. Each chapter is augmented with patient images at presentation, radiographic, intraoperative and autopsy images, and color illustrations and photographs showing key anatomy from the cadaver laboratory. With common pitfalls discussed and invaluable tips from a multidisciplinary group of experienced trauma care providers, this book is a useful and practical resource for all those involved in trauma care.

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Demetrios Demetriades is Professor of Surgery at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California and Director of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at LAC+USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Carl R. Chudnofsky is Chair and Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Elizabeth R. Benjamin is Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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