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Trauma, acute care surgery, and critical care have been interlinked for over a century. The field of critical care arose during the Crimean War of the 1850s, when Florence Nightingale dedicated a separate treatment area to the most severely wounded soldiers [1]. Although anesthesiologists, pulmonologists, and emergency medicine physicians also staff intensive care units (ICUs), mastery of critical care principles remains fundamental to an acute care surgeon’s practice. As a single chapter cannot accommodate the breadth of the critical care literature, we focus here on content most relevant to the acute care surgeon: resuscitation and respiratory support.
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Butler, K.L., Velmahos, G. (2017). Critical Care in Acute Care Surgery. In: Di Saverio, S., Catena, F., Ansaloni, L., Coccolini, F., Velmahos, G. (eds) Acute Care Surgery Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15341-4_15
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