Hans-Jörg Oestern • Otmar Trentz
Selman Uranues
(Editors)

2011

Trauma Surgery I

Internationally, trauma is at the top, if not the very top of the list of causes of death under the age of 50 years. At the same time, enormous developments continue to be made in diagnostics and treatment, while the field of trauma/acute/emergency surgery undergoes exciting and dramatic expansion and restructuring, with the establishment of new surgical specialties.