Trauma Care Manual
by Ian Greaves, Sir Keith Porter, Jeff Garner
3rd Edition
Publisher: CRC Press
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781498788847 |
| eText ISBN | 9781000428049 |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 3rd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 594 |
Trauma Care Manual, 3rd Edition, provides an evidence-based set of practical guidelines for managing victims of major trauma. Written by members of Trauma Care, the publication sets out a nationally accepted standard for good clinical practice.
The volume addresses key stages across the trauma pathway, examining pre-hospital care, trauma systems and teams, patient assessment, and trauma physiology and metabolism. It also details approaches to catastrophic haemorrhage, shock management, modern resuscitation, and damage control surgery.
Reviewed by clinical educators as a work pairing treatment protocols with classic literature, the manual serves as an instructive guide for trainees in trauma care.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Trauma Epidemic
Chapter 2: Mechanism of Injury
Chapter 3: Triage
Chapter 4: Pre-Hospital Care
Chapter 5: Trauma Systems, Centres and Teams
Chapter 6: Patient Assessment
Chapter 7: Trauma Physiology and Metabolism
Chapter 8: Catastrophic Haemorrhage
Chapter 9: Airway Management
Chapter 10: Thoracic Trauma
Chapter 11: Shock Management
Chapter 12: Damage Control Surgery
Chapter 13: Head Injury
Chapter 14: Maxillofacial Trauma
Chapter 15: Ophthalmological Trauma
Chapter 16: Spinal Injuries
Chapter 17: Abdominal and genitourinary trauma
Chapter 18: Vascular Trauma
Chapter 19: Musculoskeletal Trauma
Chapter 20: Radiology
Chapter 21: Infection in Trauma
Chapter 22: Injuries in Children
Chapter 23: Trauma in Women
Chapter 24: Trauma in the Elderly
Chapter 25: Firearms, Ballistics and Gunshot wounds
Chapter 26: Blast Injuries
Chapter 27: Injuries Due to Burns and Cold
Chapter 28: CBRN and the Trauma Victim
Chapter 29: Care of the Obese Trauma Patient
Chapter 30: Analgesia and Anaesthesia
Chapter 31: Intensive Care Management of Major Trauma
Chapter 32: Patient Transfer
Chapter 33: Psychological Aspects of Trauma
Chapter 34: Rehabilitation after Trauma
Chapter 35: Trauma Scoring Systems and Their Application
Chapter 36: Transplantation and Organ Donation
Chapter Appendix A: Viscoelastic Haemostatic Assays
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