Recent Advances in Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the management of trauma and surgical critical care has seen remarkable advances, driven by innovations, technological advances, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The intervention of different specialists on the patient creates an opportunity to optimise objectives: "the right patient, to the right place, at the right time, to receive the right care". In this sense, bleeding control protocols, damage control surgery, minimally invasive techniques, and new imaging modalities have become increasingly important in reducing the risk of complications and facilitating earlier mobilisation. Similarly, new monitoring strategies provide physiological parameters that allow for more targeted interventions. This Special Issue aims at providing an update on clinical and technological aspects for professionals involved in the initial critical care of this complex group of patients.

Areas of interest in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Postoperative delirium in the ICU;
• Burn pain: types, identification and management;
• Cirrhosis and severe trauma;
• Evidence for prognostic scales in critically ill trauma patients;
• Cardiac arrest in trauma victims;
• Blunt thoracic aortic trauma;
• Acute management of pelvic trauma;
• Advances and new therapies in traumatic spinal cord injury;
• Respiratory support in blunt thoracic trauma;
• Neuromonitoring in brain trauma;
• Bleeding and coagulopathy in trauma;
• Severe acute pancreatitis: Indications for surgical intervention;
• Major abdominal trauma;
• Damage control surgery.

We welcome high-quality original studies (clinical and experimental), well-designed meta-analyses, and informative reviews. We look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Rita Galeiras
Guest Editor

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• trauma management
• trauma care
• burn
• critical care
• damage control surgery
• traumatic spinal cord injury