Trauma care manual / edited by Ian Greaves, Keith Porter, Jeff Garner
Imprint
Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2022
Edition
Third edition
Descript
xviii, 573 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
CONTENT
The trauma epidemic -- Mechanism of injury -- Triage -- Pre-hospital care -- Trauma systems, centres and teams -- Patient assessment -- Trauma physiology and metabolism -- Catastrophic haemorrhage -- Airway management -- Thoracic trauma -- Shock management -- Damage control surgery -- Head injury -- Maxillofacial trauma -- Ophthalmological trauma -- Spinal injuries -- Abdominal and genitourinary trauma -- Vascular trauma -- Musculoskeletal trauma -- Radiology -- Infection in trauma -- Injuries in children -- Trauma in women -- Trauma in the elderly -- Firearms, ballistics and gunshot wounds -- Blast injuries -- Injuries due to burns and cold -- CBRN and the trauma victim -- Care of the obese trauma patient -- Analgesia and anaesthesia -- Intensive care management of major trauma -- Patient transfer -- Psychological aspects of trauma -- Rehabilitation after trauma -- Trauma scoring systems and their application -- Transplantation organ donation