ABC of prehospital emergency medicine
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edited by Time Nutbeam, Matthey Boylan.
--Chichester, West Sussex, UK:
Wiley-Blackwell/BMJ Books
, c2013.
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- Location
- Online
This brand new title in the ABC series provides a comprehensive overview of pre-hospital medicine, including transport, patient assessment, emergency care systems, and pre-hospital interventions.With pre-hospital care being the start of the "trauma chain", the treatment patients receive on-scene as well as en-route can be life-saving, and this new title is invaluabe for all staff involved in emergency and pre-hospital medicine.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Nutbeam, Tim
- Boylan, Matthew
- Responsibility
- edited by Time Nutbeam, Matthey Boylan
- Place of Publication
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell/BMJ Books
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 215 p.
- Series Vol.
- 258
- Series Title
- ABC series
- ISBN
- 9781118592281 (PDF ebook)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Emergency Medical Services - methods
- Emergency Medicine - methods
- Abstract
- This brand new title in the ABC series provides a comprehensive overview of pre-hospital medicine, including transport, patient assessment, emergency care systems, and pre-hospital interventions.With pre-hospital care being the start of the "trauma chain", the treatment patients receive on-scene as well as en-route can be life-saving, and this new title is invaluabe for all staff involved in emergency and pre-hospital medicine.
- Contents
- 1. Activation & Deployment of Pre-hospital Services -- 2. Scene safety and assessment -- 3. Motor Vehicle Collision Extrication -- 4. Personal Protective Equipment -- 5. Monitoring in Prehospital Care -- 6. The Role of Pre-hospital Ultrasound --7. The Primary Survey -- 8. Airway Assessment & Management -- 9. Breathing Assessment & Management -- 10. Circulation management -- 11. Analgesia And Procedural Sedation --12. Emergency Anaesthesia -- 13. Cardiac Arrest and End of Life Decisions --14. Head Injury --15. Spinal Injuries -- 16. Abdominal Trauma 1-- 17. Pelvic Trauma -- 18. Extremity Trauma -- 19. Management of burns -- 20. Crush Syndrome & Suspension Trauma -- 21. Ballistic & Blast Trauma -- 22. Medical Emergencies -- 23. Environmental Injuries -- 24. Environmental Emergencies - High Altitude Illness -- 25. Drowning, Near Drowning and Immersion Syndrome -- 26. Diving incidents -- 27. Pregnancy and Childbirth -- 28. Prehospital Management Of The Paediatric Patient Fiona -- 29. The Elderly Patient -- 30. Prehospital Management of the Bariatric Patient -- 31. Retrieval and Transport -- 32. Mass Gatherings -- 33. Mass Casualty -- 34. Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) Incidents -- 35. Clinical Governance -- 36. Medicolegal & ethical -- 37. Research and Future Development -- Index.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
