Manual of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
Description:... TheManual of Trauma and Emergency Medicine is a new comprehensive and easy to use reference for the treatment, evaluation, and care of trauma and emergency patients. Going into greater detail than the Advanced Trauma Life Support guidelines, Manual of Trauma and Emergency Medicine moves decisively from initial presentation through the first 48 to 72 hours of emergency care. Vital information can be accessed promptly through quick reference treatment/diagnostic algorithms. Readers will find more in depth information including easy-to-read synopses of specific areas of penetrating and blunt traumas, as well as, commonly encountered surgical emergencies.Unique algorithms give you instant access to diagnostic and surgical approaches covering everything from penetrating and blunt trauma through various common surgical emergenciesAn organisation by body system and disease mechanism, so its easy to look up any topic quicklyA chapter on trauma triage that makes it simpler to prioritise patient care including special cases involving disasters or exposures to hazardous materialsAn uncommonly effective approach to the treatment of hypoxemia of rib fracturesThe latest treatment options for crush injuriesAll of the organ injury scoring systems of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma...in a single source
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