Offering practical guidelines for trauma team performance, the resuscitation suite, and emergency surgery situations, Trauma Volume 1: Emergency Resuscitation, Perioperative Anesthesia, Surgical Management:

• addresses the fundamental importance of airway management and provides trauma-specific scenarios and algorithms for commonly encountered trauma airway situations.
• surveys the most frequently applied methodologies of trauma scoring and reviews the most commonly utilized triage protocols and transport systems used in the United States and around the world.
• covers diagnostic imaging modalities crucial to the management of the trauma patient.
• leads readers through critical procedures for preoperative evaluation, patient monitoring, anesthesia and surgical considerations for injuries occurring to specific areas of the body.
• outlines treatment of a variety of trauma-associated ailments including poisoning, envenomation, near drowning, and patients affected by chemical, biological, and radiological/nuclear agents

Contents

Resuscitation

1. History of Trauma
2. Mechanisms and Epidemiology of Trauma
3. Prehospital Care
4. Trauma Scoring and Triage
5. Resuscitation Suite and OR Readiness
6. Trauma Team Performance
7. Transport of the Trauma Patient
8. Primary Survey: Initial Priorities Resuscitation
9. Definitive Airway Management
10. Intravenous Access Considerations
11. Fluid Resuscitation Strategy
12. Initial Assessment of Circulation and Prevention of Shock
13. Resuscitative Thoracotomy
14. Secondary Survey: Comprehensive Trauma Evaluation
15. Cervical Spine: Initial Evaluation and Management of Known/Suspected Injury
16. Diagnostic Imaging for Trauma

Perioperative Anesthesia and Surgical Management

17. Preoperative Evaluation, Preparation, and Monitoring
18. Ongoing Resuscitation Endpoints and Strategies
19. GA Induction and Maintenance for Trauma
20. Regional Anesthesia for Trauma
21. Damage Control
22. Maxillofacial Injuries
23. Head Trauma
24. Penetrating Neck Trauma
25. Cardio-Thoracic Trauma
26. Cervical and Thoracic Vertebral Spine Trauma
27. Abdominal Trauma
28. Pelvic Trauma
29. Extremity Trauma
30. Alcohol and Drug Intoxication in Trauma
31. Poisoning, and Toxic Exposure
32. Bites, Stings and Envenomation
33. Anaphylaxis and Allergy in Trauma
34. Burn Injuries
35. Near Drowning
36. Pediatric Trauma
37. Geriatric Trauma
38. Obstetric Trauma
39. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): Chemical, Biological, and Radiation War Agents
40. Hypothermia and Heat Related Illness
41. Pitfalls in Management of the Trauma Patient
42. Tertiary Survey of the Trauma Patient

Index

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