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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.
The operations
Procedures
What the specialty does in theatre, with the imagery that goes with it.
What the specialty does in theatre: each operation with its image, its indication, and the doors into OR prep and the step-by-step walkthrough.
Featured operation
Trauma laparotomy & splenectomy
The bleeding abdomen, answered in a fixed sequence: pack everything, find the bleeder, and for the shattered spleen, take it out and vaccinate the patient later.
Indication: Haemodynamic instability with abdominal bleeding; splenic injury failing non-operative management.
Common and emergency operations
The rest of the list
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.