Clinical Case Studies: Changing Tide of Surgery

Drs. Bradley J. Roth, and David B. Hoyt

Discuss the supply and demand relationship in organ donation; Describe the requirements for the creation of acute care surgery as a subspecialty; Debate the advantages and disadvantages of b-blocker in trauma patients; Describe the problem of uncontrolled bleeding in the battlefield and the steps taken by the military to solve it; and Explain the concept of damage-control resuscitation in the battlefield.