Textbook of acute trauma care

Textbook of acute trauma care / Peter Lax, editor.

This book provides a systemic approach to acute trauma care in line with the ABCDE paradigm and up-to-date information on assessing and managing major trauma from the pre-hospital to the rehabilitation phase. The book's early sections are dedicated to identifying and managing pathology caused b...

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Other Authors: Lax, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2022]
Subjects:
Traumatology.
Wounds and injuries > Treatment.
Critical care medicine.
Critical care medicine
Traumatology
Wounds and injuries > Treatment
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Table of Contents:
  • Human factors in trauma care
  • Dealing with death in trauma
  • Legal and ethical issues in trauma care
  • The evolution of trauma systems
  • Point of injury to rehabilitation
  • Massive haemorrhage control
  • Fundamentals of airway management in trauma
  • Drug assisted airway management
  • Breathing and chest trauma
  • Circulation
  • Disability and head injury
  • Traumatic cardiac arrest
  • Pain management in trauma
  • Initial approach to damage control resuscitation
  • Haemostasis and coagulopathy
  • In hospital REBOA for major trauma
  • Anticoagulants in trauma
  • History of pre-hospital medicine in the UK
  • Aviation considerations in PHEM
  • Scene safety
  • Mechanism of injury
  • Mass casualty incidents
  • Tactical trauma care
  • Trauma retrieval
  • Sedation and field amputation
  • Point of care ultrasound (POCUS)
  • Diagnostic radiology in trauma
  • Interventional radiology in trauma
  • Decisions-making in damage control surgery
  • Practical considerations of damage control laparotomy
  • Trauma in the intensive care unit (ICU)
  • Spinal and neurological trauma
  • Limb trauma
  • Pelvic trauma
  • Trauma in pregnancy
  • Paediatric trauma
  • Silver trauma
  • Ballistics and blast injury
  • Immersion and submersion
  • Burns and thermal injuries
  • Environmental trauma: CBRN incidents
  • Decompression illness and diving medicine
  • Rehabilitation after trauma
  • Preventing and treating trauma-related mental health problems.

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