• Alfred Kennedy is a pediatric surgeon at Janet Weis Childrens Hospital, Geisinger Hospital in Danville, PA. He is the Trauma Director of the Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Center at Geisinger. He is also the Division Chair for Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery. He has a robust clinical experience in both trauma surgery as well as community/rural pediatric surgery. He is board certified in Pediatric Surgery and General Surgery and a member of the American Pediatric Surgical Association Committee on Trauma.
• Romeo Ignacio is currently a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California San Diego and an attending pediatric surgeon at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. He serves as the Trauma Medical Director and Surgical Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. During his 24 years in the U.S. Navy, he has gained vast experience in trauma training and surgical education. He is an active member of various national surgical organizations and a leader of multiple subcommittees.
• Robert Ricca is a pediatric surgeon at Prisma Health, Greenville Memorial Hospital, a Level 2 Pediatric Trauma Center in South Carolina. He currently serves as the Trauma Medical Director. He recently retired from the United States Navy after 24 years of service where he deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He has served in numerous leadership positions in the Navy. He is board certified in Pediatric Surgery, Surgical Critical Care and General Surgery and is an active member of multiple national surgical organizations.

Focuses on the unique challenges encountered in pediatric trauma and its clinical management

Gives a comprehensive approach to treating pediatric trauma patients suffering with a variety of injuries

Short practically oriented chapters

1 Introduction - (Unique Factors to Pediatric Trauma).-2 Injury Prevention.- 3 Trauma Systems and Pedaitric Trauma Centers.- 4 Rural Pediatric Trauma Surgery.- 5 Disaster Management.- 6 Pediatric Trauma in Humanitarian and Deployed Settings.- 7 Initial Trauma Resuscitation.- 8 Airway Management.- 9 Management of Shock.- 10 Blood Tranfusions in Trauma.- 11 VTE Prophylaxis and Treatment.- 12 Surgical Nutrition.- 13 Thromboelastogram.- 14 Traumatic Brain Injury.- 15 Facial Injury.- 16 Neck Injuries.- 17 Spinal Injury.- 18 Thoracic Injury (Lung and Chest Wall).- 19 Penetrating Abdominal Injury.- 20 Liver Injury.- 21 Pancreas, Gallbladder and Duodenum.- 22 Splenic Injury.- 23 Gastric Injury.- 24 Small Bowel/Colon Injury.- 25 Rectal Injury.- 26 Perineal (saddle) injury.- 27 Upper Tract Genitourinary Trauma.- 28 Lower Tract Genitourinary Trauma.- 29 Pelvic injury.- 30 Extremity Orthopedic Injury.- 31 Injuries to the Hand.- 32 Vascular Injuries to the Heart and Great Thoracic Vessels.- 33 Vascular injuries of the Abdominal Vessels.- 34 Vascular Injuries of the Extremity.- 35 Envenomation, bites and stings.- 36 Child Abuse.- 37 Hypothermia and Near-drowning.- 38 Burns.- 39 New Technologies in Pediatric Trauma.