Description
The Trauma Care Manual 3e is the definitive evidence-based manual of best trauma practice. Now in its third edition, this valuable book continues to provide clear practical guidelines for the management of victims of major trauma. New coverage includes chapters on abdominal and urological trauma, aswell as trauma in the obese patient. Also included is coverage of pre-hospital management; trauma centres, sytems & teams; modern trauma resuscitation; trauma physiology & metabolism; damage control surgery. Written by members of Trauma Care, this book offers a nationally accepted set of standards for good practice.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
List of Contributors
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. The Trauma Epidemic
Chapter 2. Mechanism of Injury
Chapter 3. Triage
Chapter 4. Pre-Hospital Care
Chapter 5. Trauma Systems, Centres and Teams
Chapter 6. Patient Assessment
Chapter 7. Trauma Physiology and Metabolism
Chapter 8. Catastrophic Haemorrhage
Chapter 9. Airway Management
Chapter 10. Thoracic Trauma
Chapter 11. Shock Management
Chapter 12. Damage Control Surgery
Chapter 13. Head Injury
Chapter 14. Maxillofacial Trauma
Chapter 15. Ophthalmological Trauma
Chapter 16. Spinal Injuries
Chapter 17. Abdominal and genitourinary trauma
Chapter 18. Vascular Trauma
Chapter 19. Musculoskeletal Trauma
Chapter 20. Radiology.
Chapter 21. Infection in Trauma
Chapter 22. Injuries in Children
Chapter 23. Trauma in Women
Chapter 24. Trauma in the Elderly
Chapter 25. Firearms, Ballistics and Gunshot wounds
Chapter 26. Blast Injuries
Chapter 27. Injuries Due to Burns and Cold
Chapter 28. CBRN and the Trauma Victim
Chapter 29. Care of the Obese Trauma Patient
Chapter 30. Analgesia and Anaesthesia
Chapter 31. Intensive Care Management of Major Trauma
Chapter 32. Patient Transfer
Chapter 33. Psychological Aspects of Trauma
Chapter 34. Rehabilitation after Trauma
Chapter 35. Trauma Scoring Systems and Their Application
Chapter 36. Transplantation and Organ Donation
Appendix A. Viscoelastic Haemostatic Assays
Index
