Trauma Operative Procedures

ISBN-13: 9788847000452 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 209 str.

G. Berlot; H. Delooz; A. Gullo

Opis

Trauma has assumed a prominent role in contemporary medicine as an event that can significantly influence clinical variables such as morbidity, functional deficits and consequential disability, and mortality. This text provides an examination of trauma operative procedures.

Spis treści

1 - Planning, organisation, education, triage and research in immediate medical care: an introduction.- 2 - Current trauma scoring systems and their applications: a review.- 3 - Assessing the severity of trauma and the quality of trauma care.- 4 - Trauma transport.- 5 - A pre-hospital pharmacological review.- 6 - Haemorrhagic shock: pathophysiology and treatment.- 7 - Fluid management in trauma.- 8 - Hydroxyethyl starch and coagulation.- 9 - Colloid-induced renal complications.- 10 - Airway management.- 11 - Thermal homeostasis in trauma patients.- 12 - Prevention and management of pulmonary inhalation.- 13 - Vasopressors and inotropes in trauma: when, where, how long.- 14 - Creating a trauma anaesthesia service.- 15 - Anaesthetic implications of drug abuse in trauma patients.- 16 - Common PACU problems in trauma patients.- 17 - Three-in-one block as locoregional analgesia for hip fractures.- 18 - Recommendations for blood transfusion in trauma patients.- 19 - Update on cardiopulmonary resuscitation: guidelines for volunteers.- 20 - Guidelines on trauma management.- Main symbols.