Meet the editors

Dr. Georgios Tsoulfas received his medical degree from Brown University School of Medicine, Rhode Island, and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, as well as a transplant research fellowship at the Starzl Transplant Institute at the University of Pittsburgh. He then completed a two-year transplantation surgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and

then joined the Division of Solid Organ Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. He has currently moved back to Greece, where he is an Associate Professor of Transplantation Surgery at the Aristotle University School of Medicine and Chief of the Transplantation Surgery Department in Thessaloniki, Greece. He has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals and in PubMed, as well as seventeen book chapters. He is a reviewer for more than forty international journals and on the editorial board of several others. He is currently Chair of the International Relations Committee of the American College of Surgeons and World President of the International College of Surgeons.

Mohammad Meshkini, MD, is an MPH candidate in his last year of a residency in Emergency Medicine at Iran University of Medical Sciences. He is an instructor candidate for courses in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) courses from the American Heart Association (AHA), as well as the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the Ultra-

sound Trauma Life Support (UTLS) course from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He has collaborated with the Iran Emergency Medical Services headquarters in Tehran, Iran. His fields of interest are traumatic patients and disaster management. Before choosing a career in emergency medicine, Dr. Meshkini pursued a Ph.D. in Disaster Healthcare Management.

Contents

**Section 1**

Department *by Marina Boushra*

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Radiation Injury and Emergency Medicine

Damage Control Surgery for Liver Trauma

Liver Trauma Management

*and Carlos Yánez Benítez*

*by James Shen, Linda Ding, Kevin O'Connor, Ameer Elaimy, Carla Bradford, Fenhong Liu, Abdulnasser Khalifeh, Suhong Yu, Harry Bushe, Jonathan Saleeby, Kenneth Ulin, I-Lin Kuo, Yankhua Fan,* 

*Maryann Bishop-Jodoin, Paul Rava and Thomas J. FitzGerald*

*by Ioannis A. Ziogas, Ioannis Katsaros and Georgios Tsoulfas*

Damage Control in Hinchey III and IV Acute Diverticulitis *by Luca Ponchietti, Néstor Bueno Vidales, Andrea A. Casamassima, Fernando Gallego Estrada, Alessandro Garcea, Ioannis Gerogiannis,* 

*by Henrique A. Wiederkehr, Julio Wiederkehr, Barbara A. Wiederkehr, Lucas M. Sarquis, Oona T. Daronch, Lucas Scopel and João V. Zeni*

Evaluation and Treatment of Elevated Temperature in the Emergency

**Preface XI**

General Concepts of Damage Control Surgery **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

Damage Control Surgery and Liver Trauma **35**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 53**

Damage Control Surgery in Different Surgical Specialties **69**

**Chapter 5 71**

*Alberto Lafita López, Diego Mariani, Olga Marin Casajús, Matteo Marconi, Nuno Filipe Muralha Antunes, Laura María Pradal Jarne, Jorge Vera Bella* 
