Trauma management

Title:

Trauma management

Author:

Demetriades, Demetrios, 1951-

ISBN:

9781429411271

9781601295033

Publication Information:

Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, c2000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (678 p.) : ill.

Series:

Vademecum

Vademecum.

Contents:

COVER; TITLE PAGE. Trauma Management; Copyright ©2000 Landes Bioscience; Dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; EDITORS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; SECTION I. PREHOSPITAL CARE; CHAPTER 1. Prehospital Trauma Care; SECTION II. EMERGENCY ROOM CARE; CHAPTER 2. Initial Evaluation and Management in the Emergency Department; CHAPTER 3. Ultrasound in Trauma; CHAPTER 4. Analgesia and Sedation in Trauma; CHAPTER 5. Emergency Airway Management in the Trauma Patient; CHAPTER 6. Shock and Resuscitation; SECTION III. HEAD; CHAPTER 7. Management of Head Injury; CHAPTER 8. Maxillofacial Trauma; SECTION IV. NECK.

Abstract:

This book has been prepared to serve as a quick and practical guide in the evaluation and management of trauma patients by residents, surgeons, and emergency physicians. It covers an extensive array of topics, from the correct means of handling and transporting trauma victims to proper evaluative techniques and actual and specific techniques for de.

Subject Term:

Wounds and injuries -- Treatment.

Traumatology.

Surgical emergencies.

Emergency medical services.

Wounds and Injuries -- diagnosis.

Wounds and Injuries -- therapy.

Critical Care -- methods.

Emergency Medical Services -- methods.

Emergency Treatment -- methods.

MEDICAL -- Sports Medicine.

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