Trauma Care Manual (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Greaves, Ian; Garner, Jeff; Porter, Keith

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 593
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000428049
• Artikelnr.: 62914405

Autorenporträt

Col Ian Greaves was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School in 1986, training initially in general medicine. He joined the British Army in 1999 as a consultant in Emergency Medicine. He is a fellow of the Royal Colleges of Emergency Medicine, Physicians (London) and Surgeons of Edinburgh. Between 2008 and 2014 he was Defence Consultant Advisor in Emergency Medicine and clinical lead for Pre-hospital Care for the three Armed Services. He deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Col Greaves was Honorary Surgeon to HM Queen Elizabeth II from 2011 to 2014 and was made Officer of the Order of St John in 2005. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Royal Geographical Society and was made an honorary fellow of the Ambulance Services Institute in 2014 for services to pre-hospital medicine. Col Greaves holds a personal chair at the University of Teesside. He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Order of St John and of St John Ambulance and as an examiner for the fellowships in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine and for postgraduate degrees in trauma at Queen Mary University of London. Col Greaves is the author or editor of textbooks on trauma, pre-hospital Care, major incident management and medical responses to terrorism and is editor of the journal Trauma. He is also a member of the Northern Region NHS Clinical Senate and has been actively involved in NHS clinical service provision reviews. Mr Keith Porter, Chairman of Trauma Care. Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham Major Jeff Garner, Specialist Registrar in General Surgery in the Defence Medical Services, UK

Inhaltsangabe

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. Ophthalmological Trauma
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.