BookMichael Perry, editor.
Summary: This book provides a practically applicable guide to injuries, diseases, and disorders affecting the head, neck, and dental region seen within accident and emergency departments. These regions contain a number of specialized structures each with individual neural, muscular and vascular elements, meaning that the study of these anatomical areas is complicated and often quite daunting. Chapters in this work aim to break the treatment of such injuries and diseases into an easy-to-digest format via chapters featuring a symptom-based approach. Therefore, enabling the reader to quickly access the information they require when treating patients with a variety of disorders in the emergency room. Diseases and Injuries to the Head, Face and Neck: A Guide to Diagnosis and Management is a concise overview of how to deal with head, neck, and dental emergencies and is an important up-to-date resource for all medical professionals and trainees who encounter these patients.
Contents:
Embryology of the head and neck: an aid to understanding our complex anatomy and some interesting anomalies
Initial assessment of the "head and neck" patient
The injured patient
Anaesthetic considerstions
Nutritional consideration in some head and neck diseases
The skull, brain and associated structures --The vertebral column, spine and associated structures
The viscera and glands of the neck
The cheek and orbit
The upper jaw ("midface") and sinuses
The lower jaw (mandible) and associated structures
The lips, mouth, tongue and teeth
The eye (globe), eyelids and associated structures
The throat
the nose and associated structures
The ear and associated structures
The sking (integument)
Burns to the head, face and neck.