Description
British Medical Association Book Award Winner - Young Authors Award of the Year 2018
Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine at a Glance offers healthcare students and trainees the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills relevant to the provision of immediate care outside of the hospital. This concise text provides information on the principles of managing acutely unwell patients with life-threatening injuries at the scene of their accident, all in highly-illustrated double-page spreads to help explain key messages.
This brand new title:
- Looks at the ways in which pre-hospital care is organised and delivered in the United Kingdom
- Explores some of the most common incidents that pre-hospital care teams attend to, including major trauma as well as cardiac arrests
- Includes an illustrated introduction to some of the many practical procedures pre-hospital care teams must be able to perform including resuscitative thoracotomy and rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia
- Takes into account the multi-disciplinary nature of the specialty
- Features a section on careers within pre-hospital care for doctors and paramedics
Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine at a Glance is the perfect companion for medical students and junior doctors interested in learning more about pre-hospital care, as well as for paramedic students and paramedics who practise in the pre-hospital environment every day.
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
Principles of pre-hospital care
1 History of pre-hospital care
2 Pre-hospital care today
3 Major trauma pathways in the UK
4 Emerging pre-hospital medical care pathways
5 Kinematics and mechanism of Injury
6 Hazardous materials
7 Human factors
8 Pre-hospital transport
9 Scene safety
Initial assessment and management of immediately life-threatening injuries
10 The primary survey
11 Control of major haemorrhage
12 Cervical spine injuries
13 Basic airway management
14 The difficult airway
15 Life-threatening chest trauma
16 Circulation I: haemodynamic instability
17 Circulation II: medical cardiac arrest
18 Circulation III: traumatic cardiac arrest
19 Pain relief and sedation
20 Head injury
21 Spinal injuries
22 Limb Injuries
Special considerations in trauma management
23 Paediatric trauma
24 Trauma in the pregnant woman
25 Trauma in the elderly
Practical skills in pre-hospital emergency medicine
26 Anaesthesia in the pre-hospital environment
27 The emergency surgical airway
28 Peripheral vascular access
29 Chest techniques
30 Resuscitative thoracotomy
31 Pre-hospital ultrasound
32 Packaging
33 Handover
Management of complex problems
34 Major incidents
35 Expedition medicine
36 Event medicine
37 Military pre-hospital emergency care
Careers in pre-hospital emergency medicine
38 Careers in pre-hospital emergency medicine – NHS England
References
Index
