--- product_id: 5653602 title: "Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery" price: "2365560₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/5653602-top-knife-the-art-and-craft-of-trauma-surgery store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery **Price:** 2365560₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery - **How much does it cost?** 2365560₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/5653602-top-knife-the-art-and-craft-of-trauma-surgery) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The single most important lesson we hope you will derive from this book is to always keep it simple because, in trauma surgery, the simple stuff works. This book will help you take a badly wounded patient to the operating room, organize yourself and your team, do battle with some vicious injuries and come out with the best possible result. It is a practical guide to operative trauma surgery for residents and registrars, for general surgeons with an interest in trauma, and for isolated surgeons operating on wounded patients in military, rural or humanitarian settings. A surgical atlas may show you what to do with your hands but not how to think, plan and improvise. Here you will find practical advice on how to use your head as well as your hands when operating on a massively bleeding trauma patient. The first part of this book presents some general principles of trauma surgery. The second part is about trauma surgery as a contact sport. Here we show you how to deal with specific injuries to the abdomen, chest, neck and peripheral vessels. Review: I freakin love this book! - I was recently reminded of this book during an online discussion about surgical texts. My residency program was not heavy on penetrating trauma so I purchased Top Knife a few years ago as a "How To" guide for the oral boards. I could not have been more pleased with that decision. Top Knife is succinct yet detailed, timely yet timeless and dare I say it, funny! Several times throughout the book the authors will state something to the effect of. "The books tell you to do X; we have never been able to get X to work. If you can, please share your secret with us!" Maybe I'm easily amused but those passages made me laugh out loud as most books are filled with impractical advice that would never work outside of BMS or some other rarified theatre. We now recommend this to our residents as reading for their trauma rotation and board exams. It's that good. Review: The best medical book I read bar none. - Basic science and ABSITE knowledge is one thing. Which frankly is relatively easy to achieve if you are good at self-study. The wisdom and operative pearls shared shared by these masters, gained through incredibly vast experience, is something totally different. It is almost like cheating to have this book compared to those who don't. Only objection is that it is a bit old (2004) and some things have changed... like the emergence of better IR and endovascular techniques. And it is not intended to be a detailed technical reference. But the Yoda-like wisdom remains. Not only for trauma surgeons but all acute care or general surgeons. I never even write reviews. It is that good. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #44,123 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Trauma Surgery #13 in Critical Care #15 in General Surgery | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 362 Reviews | ## Images ![Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81byeRPIG8L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I freakin love this book! *by W***A on August 17, 2014* I was recently reminded of this book during an online discussion about surgical texts. My residency program was not heavy on penetrating trauma so I purchased Top Knife a few years ago as a "How To" guide for the oral boards. I could not have been more pleased with that decision. Top Knife is succinct yet detailed, timely yet timeless and dare I say it, funny! Several times throughout the book the authors will state something to the effect of. "The books tell you to do X; we have never been able to get X to work. If you can, please share your secret with us!" Maybe I'm easily amused but those passages made me laugh out loud as most books are filled with impractical advice that would never work outside of BMS or some other rarified theatre. We now recommend this to our residents as reading for their trauma rotation and board exams. It's that good. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best medical book I read bar none. *by Y***O on December 10, 2016* Basic science and ABSITE knowledge is one thing. Which frankly is relatively easy to achieve if you are good at self-study. The wisdom and operative pearls shared shared by these masters, gained through incredibly vast experience, is something totally different. It is almost like cheating to have this book compared to those who don't. Only objection is that it is a bit old (2004) and some things have changed... like the emergence of better IR and endovascular techniques. And it is not intended to be a detailed technical reference. But the Yoda-like wisdom remains. Not only for trauma surgeons but all acute care or general surgeons. I never even write reviews. It is that good. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ great book *by A***E on February 16, 2013* I lost my first copy and had to get another(I personally think someone stole it when they saw how great it was!) This is the book to get for the no-nonsense guide to trauma surgery. It tells you to use your team and common sense to ensure that you have success much more often then failure. At one point they say the best thing to do after you have stopped the bleeding is to STOP!( it's capitalized in the book too!) They say too many problems stem from people diving head-long into fixing it without taking the time to see the big picture."Stop to organize and optimize your attack". I must tell you though I am only an EMT, not a trauma surgeon, but the book makes for some great information to know, ## Frequently Bought Together - Top Knife: The Art and Craft of Trauma Surgery - Behind the Knife - ABSITE Podcast Companion: 3rd Edition, 2023 - The ABSITE Review --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/5653602-top-knife-the-art-and-craft-of-trauma-surgery](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/5653602-top-knife-the-art-and-craft-of-trauma-surgery) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-05-19*