Vascular Emergencies

Preface; List of contributors; Part I. Cerebrovascular Disease Jonathan Edlow: 1. Cerebral sinus venous thrombosis Jonathan C. Roberts and Christopher M. Fischer; 2. Acute ischemic stroke Cemal B. Sozener and Phillip A. Scott; 3. Intracerebral hemorrhage Lauren M. Nentwich and Joshua N. Goldstein; 4. Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage Jonathan Edlow; 5. Blunt and penetrating injuries to the neck Niels K. Rathlev and Joseph C. Schmidt; 6. Cervical artery dissection Bo E. Madsen and Selim H. Magdy; Part II. Acute Aortic Disease John A. Elefteriades: 7. Acute aortic dissection John A. Elefteriades and Samuel Youssef; 8. Acute aortic occlusion Akhilesh Jain, Jeffrey Indes, John A. Elefteriades and Bart E. Muhs; 9. Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms Matthew K. Folstein, Karan Chopra and Kapil Gopal; 10. Blunt aortic injury David J. Skarupa and Jay Menaker; 11. Thoracica aortic aneurysm Bart Muhs and John A. Elefteriades; Part III. Extremities Kapil Gopal: 12. Acute upper limb ischemia Kamil Vallabh; 13. Acute atraumatic lower limb ischemia Thomas S. Monahan; 14. Extremity aneurysms Kristian A. Ulloa; 15. Evaluation and management of thrombosed/occluded bypass grafts Jonathan Kittredge and Kapil Gopal; 16. Penetrating extremity trauma - vascular aspects Timothy Craig Hardcastle, Christopher Venter and Daan den Hollander; Part IV. Visceral Arterial/Venous Emergencies Joe Martinez: 17. Acute mesenteric ischemia George C. Willis; 18. Acute visceral venous disease Matthew K. Folstein, Karan Chopra and Kapil Gopal; Part V. Acute Venous Thromboembolic Disease Mike Mccurdy: 19. Upper extremity deep venous thrombosis Majid Afshar and Nirav G. Shah; 20. Lower extremity deep venous thrombosis Leann Silhan and Robert M. Reed; 21. Pulmonary embolism Samantha L. Wood and Robert M. Reed; 22. Thrombolytic therapy for venous thromboembolism Sa'ad Lahri; Part VI. Use of Ultrasound in the Emergency Department Brian Euerle: 23. Ultrasound-guided central venous access Sarah K. Sommerkamp