This new book provides evidence based guidelines for the immediate clinical management of major trauma.It has been written by clinicians with many years of trauma experience, and endorsed as authoritative by Trauma Care (UK).
The UK now has highly effective trauma systems. Clinical developments include the introduction of damage control resuscitation, tranexamic acid, blood product resuscitation, novel hybrid resuscitation and an emphasis on the control of major external haemorrhage as part of a new ABCDE approach. Consequently, more individuals with major trauma are surviving than ever before. Optimal pre-hospital care is essential for improved survival rates and reduced morbidity.
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and acronyms
Contributors
1. Trauma: A global perspective
2. Safety
3. The incident scene
4. Communication in pre-hospital care
5. Mechanism of injury
6. The primary survey
7. Catastrophic haemorrhage
8. Airway management
9. Chest injuries
10. Shock
11. Entrapment and extrication
12. Head injury
13. Spinal injuries
14. Musculoskeletal trauma
15. Analgesia, sedation and emergency anaesthesia
16. The injured child
17. Trauma in pregnancy
18. Trauma in the elderly
19. Burns
20. Firearms, ballistics and gunshot wounds
21. Blast injuries
22. Trauma management in the austere pre-hospital environment
23. Mass casualty situations
24. Retrieval and transport
25. Handover and documentation
26. Law and ethics in pre-hospital care
27. Research and audit in pre-hospital care
28. Training in pre-hospital emergency medicine (PHEM)
29. Trauma systems
Annex A Practical procedures in thoracic trauma
Annex B Traumatic cardiac arrest
Index
