TY - BOOK AU - PEITZMAN,ANREW B AU - Greaves,Ian AU - Porter,Keith M. TI - Trauma care manual SN - 9781498788847 AV - RD94 U1 - 617.1 23 KW - Wounds and Injuries KW - therapy KW - Advanced Trauma Life Support Care KW - United Kingdom N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Trauma Epidemic -- Mechanism of Injury -- Triage -- Pre-Hospital Care -- Trauma Systems, Centres and Teams -- Patient Assessment -- Trauma Physiology and Metabolism -- Catastrophic Haemorrhage -- Airway Management -- Thoracic Trauma -- Shock Management -- Damage Control Surgery -- Head injury -- Maxillofacial Trauma -- Ophthalmological Trauma -- Spinal Injury -- Abdominal and genitourinary trauma -- Vascular Trauma -- Musculoskeletal Trauma -- Radiology -- Infection in Trauma -- Injuries in Children -- Trauma in Women -- Trauma in the Elderly -- Firearms, ballistics and gun-shot wounds -- Blast Injury -- Injury due to Burns, Electrocution and Cold -- CBRN and the Trauma Victim -- Care of the Obese Trauma Patient -- Analgesia and Anaesthesia -- Intensive Care Management -- Patient Transfer -- Psychological aspects of Trauma -- Trauma Rehabilitation -- Trauma Scoring -- Transplantation N2 - "The Trauma Care Manual 3e is the definitive evidence-based manual of best trauma practice. Now in its third edition, this valuable book continues to provide clear practical guidelines for the management of victims of major trauma. New coverage includes chapters on abdominal and urological trauma, as well as trauma in the obese patient. Also included is coverage of pre-hospital management; trauma centres, systems & teams; modern trauma resuscitation; trauma physiology & metabolism; damage control surgery. Written by members of Trauma Care, this book offers a nationally accepted set of standards for good practice"-- ER -