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Trauma & Acute Care Surgery

Time-critical operative care of the injured patient: the primary survey that finds the killer first, damage control that trades anatomy for physiology, and the discipline of doing the least surgery that keeps someone alive tonight so the right surgery can happen tomorrow.

3 operations in depth5 interactive cases

Backdrop: Portable chest radiograph of a left tension pneumothorax with the mediastinum pushed to the right, the trauma bay's classic · Hellerhoff · CC BY-SA 4.0

Surgical anatomy

Anatomy

The structures the operations walk past, and the ones they must not injure.

The structures the operations walk past, and the ones they must not injure. Real plates and photographs only; the 3D lab carries the BodyParts3D specimens.

Anatomy media needed

No verified anatomical plates are assigned to this specialty’s operations yet. The 3D lab and the danger-zone atlas below still apply.

Danger zones

What must not be injured

  • Chest drain insertion

    Intercostal neurovascular bundle

    The bundle cannot be seen from outside; only technique protects it, and a drain forced under a rib rather than over one finds the artery.

    Protect it: Always work over the top edge of the rib below the chosen space, blunt dissection, and a finger before any tube.

Open the 3D anatomy lab The danger-zone atlasSurgical approaches

Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Trauma surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.