BookAlfred P. Kennedy Jr., Romeo C. Ignacio, Robert Ricca, editors.
Summary: This book meets the need for a detailed resource that focuses on the unique challenges encountered in pediatric trauma and its clinical management. Short practically oriented chapters describe how to successfully treat a range of injuries across a variety of anatomical areas. Emphasis is placed on accounting for the injury mechanism providing recommendations on rapid assessment, initial stabilization and management strategies. Pediatric Trauma Care - A Practical Guide, comprehensively covers how to approach treating pediatric trauma patients suffering with a variety of injuries. Therefore, it is an ideal resource for all medical professionals who encounter these patients in their day-to-day practice.
Contents:
1 Introduction - (Unique Factors to Pediatric Trauma).-2 Injury Prevention
3 Trauma Systems and Pedaitric Trauma Centers
4 Rural Pediatric Trauma Surgery
5 Disaster Management
6 Pediatric Trauma in Humanitarian and Deployed Settings
7 Initial Trauma Resuscitation
8 Airway Management
9 Management of Shock
10 Blood Tranfusions in Trauma
11 VTE Prophylaxis and Treatment
12 Surgical Nutrition
13 Thromboelastogram
14 Traumatic Brain Injury
15 Facial Injury
16 Neck Injuries
17 Spinal Injury
18 Thoracic Injury (Lung and Chest Wall)
19 Penetrating Abdominal Injury
20 Liver Injury
21 Pancreas, Gallbladder and Duodenum
22 Splenic Injury
23 Gastric Injury
24 Small Bowel/Colon Injury
25 Rectal Injury
26 Perineal (saddle) injury
27 Upper Tract Genitourinary Trauma
28 Lower Tract Genitourinary Trauma
29 Pelvic injury
30 Extremity Orthopedic Injury
31 Injuries to the Hand
32 Vascular Injuries to the Heart and Great Thoracic Vessels
33 Vascular injuries of the Abdominal Vessels
34 Vascular Injuries of the Extremity
35 Envenomation, bites and stings
36 Child Abuse
37 Hypothermia and Near-drowning
38 Burns
39 New Technologies in Pediatric Trauma.