Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by Peter F. Mahoney (ed.), James M. Ryan (ed.), Adam J. Brooks (ed.), C. William Schwab (ed.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 672
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty. The book crystallizes the knowledge and experience accrued by those dealing with ballistic trauma on a regular basis and extends this to those who have to manage these patients on an occasional basis only.

This book is aimed at all medical and paramedical personnel involved in the care of patients with ballistic injury. It will be especially relevant for consultants and senior trainees in surgery, anesthesia and emergency medicine who are likely to be involved in the management of these unique injuries. It will be an essential reference for pre-hospital care providers and nurses working in the emergency room and intensive care. Military surgeons and medical and nursing staff on deployment in regions of conflict will find the book a valuable resource.

✦ Table of Contents

The International Small Arms Situation: A Public Health Approach....Pages 3-30
Guns and Bullets....Pages 31-44
Bombs, Mines, Blast, Fragmentation, and Thermobaric Mechanisms of Injury....Pages 45-66
Ballistic Protection....Pages 67-90
Forensic Aspects of Ballistic Injury....Pages 91-121
Ballistic Trauma, Armed Violence, and International Law....Pages 122-134
Prehospital Care....Pages 137-150
Resuscitation and Anesthesia for the Ballistic Casualty....Pages 151-167
Clinical Ballistics: Surgical Management of Soft-Tissue Injuries—General Principles....Pages 168-179
Damage Control....Pages 180-208
Neck Injury....Pages 209-240
Thoracic Injury....Pages 241-269
Penetrating Genitourinary Trauma: Management by the Nonspecialist Surgeon....Pages 270-298
Abdomen and Pelvis....Pages 299-324
Management of Ballistic Trauma to the Head....Pages 325-347
Spinal Injury....Pages 348-355
Limb Injuries....Pages 356-380
Vascular Injury....Pages 381-395
Ballistic Trauma in Children....Pages 396-417
Injuries in Pregnancy....Pages 418-423
Burns....Pages 424-444
Intensive Care of the Trauma Patient with Ballistic Injuries....Pages 445-464
Imaging Triage for Ballistic Trauma....Pages 465-485
Training to Manage Ballistic Trauma....Pages 486-509
Hospital and System Assessment....Pages 513-526
Triage....Pages 527-534
Managing Ballistic Injury in the Military Environment: The Concept of Forward Surgical Support....Pages 535-540
Managing Ballistic Injury in the NGO Environment....Pages 541-565
Ballistic Missile Injuries in the Siege of Sarajevo 1992–1995....Pages 569-575
Vascular Injuries in the Groin....Pages 576-578
Conflict Surgery....Pages 579-584
Surgery in the Camps....Pages 585-591
Ballistics—Lessons Learned....Pages 592-593
African Education....Pages 594-595
The Role of Intensive Care in the Management of Ballistic Trauma in War....Pages 596-598
Survivors and Shooters....Pages 599-605
Rectal Examination Revisited....Pages 606-607
Where a Trauma Surgeon Can Go Ballistic?....Pages 611-626

✦ Subjects

Emergency Medicine;Traumatic Surgery;Surgical Orthopedics;Intensive / Critical Care Medicine;Nursing;Anesthesiology