Trauma Care Manual

✍ Scribed by Ian Greaves (editor), Sir Keith Porter (editor), Jeff Garner (editor)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 595
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface to the Third Edition
List of Contributors
Glossary
Acknowledgements
1. The Trauma Epidemic
2. Mechanism of Injury
3. Triage
4. Pre-Hospital Care
5. Trauma Systems, Centres and Teams
6. Patient Assessment
7. Trauma Physiology and Metabolism
8. Catastrophic Haemorrhage
9. Airway Management
10. Thoracic Trauma
11. Shock Management
12. Damage Control Surgery
13. Head Injury
14. Maxillofacial Trauma
15. Ophthalmic Injuries
16. Spinal Injuries
17. Abdominal and Genitourinary Trauma
18. Vascular Trauma
19. Musculoskeletal Trauma
20. Radiology
21. Infection in Trauma
22. Injuries in Children
23. Trauma in Women
24. Trauma in the Elderly
25. Firearms, Ballistics and Gunshot Wounds
26. Blast Injuries
27. Injuries Due to Burns and Cold
28. CBRN and the Trauma Victim
29. Care of the Obese Trauma Patient
30. Analgesia and Anaesthesia
31. Intensive Care Management of Major Trauma
32. Patient Transfer
33. Psychological Aspects of Trauma
34. Rehabilitation after Trauma
35. Trauma Scoring Systems and Their Application
36. Transplantation and Organ Donation
Appendix A: Viscoelastic Haemostatic Assays
Index