BookPeter Lax, editor.
Summary: This book provides a systemic approach to acute trauma care in line with the ABCDE paradigm and up-to-date information on assessing and managing major trauma from the pre-hospital to the rehabilitation phase. The book's early sections are dedicated to identifying and managing pathology caused by massive haemorrhage, airway, breathing, circulation or neurological trauma and examining the current evidence base relating to their management. The book then builds from fundamental skills to advanced interventions so that each level of responder can identify and implement aspects of clinical practice that will be of benefit to them at their stage. This approach also explains advanced interventions that may be executed subsequently, explaining how each phase of care sits together. This has a further benefit of producing seamless care for patients by practitioners of different levels using this book as a reference point. Later sections deal with specifics of in-hospital trauma care by specialty, including the explanation of decision making processes by specialties, use of diagnostic and interventional radiology, rehabilitation and psychological aspects of trauma care. The Textbook of Acute Trauma Care also focuses on non-clinical issues relevant to trauma such as training and logistics of retrieval and repatriation, aviation considerations in HEMS, legal and forensic evidence considerations and ethical issues dealing with trauma patients. In addition, the book contains chapters from international experts on cognitive and human factors relating to healthcare and suggests strategies for training and minimising errors. This book is an essential resource for all grades of practitioner, from first responders to Consultant/Attending Physician level providers.
Contents:
Human factors in trauma care
Dealing with death in trauma
Legal and ethical issues in trauma care
The evolution of trauma systems
Point of injury to rehabilitation
Massive haemorrhage control
Fundamentals of airway management in trauma
Drug assisted airway management
Breathing and chest trauma
Circulation
Disability and head injury
Traumatic cardiac arrest
Pain management in trauma
Initial approach to damage control resuscitation
Haemostasis and coagulopathy
In hospital REBOA for major trauma
Anticoagulants in trauma
History of pre-hospital medicine in the UK
Aviation considerations in PHEM
Scene safety
Mechanism of injury
Mass casualty incidents
Tactical trauma care
Trauma retrieval
Sedation and field amputation
Point of care ultrasound (POCUS)
Diagnostic radiology in trauma --Interventional radiology in trauma
Decisions-making in damage control surgery
Practical considerations of damage control laparotomy
Trauma in the intensive care unit (ICU)
Spinal and neurological trauma
Limb trauma
Pelvic trauma
Trauma in pregnancy
Paediatric trauma
Silver trauma
Ballistics and blast injury
Immersion and submersion
Burns and thermal injuries
Environmental trauma: CBRN incidents
Decompression illness and diving medicine
Rehabilitation after trauma
Preventing and treating trauma-related mental health problems.