Main description:

The book intends to guide all medical professionals on how to utilize their skills to manage different trauma scenarios with a special chapter on managing trauma in rural and remote areas. The chapters spread over from the ABCD of trauma management to how to apply them in special scenarios. A chapter on Trauma and ICU scores has been added to help in objective assessment of the trauma patient. The authors of individual chapters are experts in their fields and have enriched the book with their individual experiences as well.

Covers all aspects of Trauma including prehospital management in rural and remote areas
Evidence based and updated protocols have been used in easy-to-read format with flowcharts and diagrams
Dedicated Chapter on Trauma and ICU Scores will be helpful in objective assessment of trauma patients
Written by experts with enormous clinical expertise
This manual will serve as a handbook for postgraduates, DNB students, intensivists, physicians and those who are involved in acute care of injured patients.

Contents:

1. Assessment and Initial Management of Trauma

2. Airway and Breathing

3. Hemorrhagic Shock

4. Thoracic Trauma

5. Abdominal Trauma Emergency Radiological Imaging

6. Head Trauma

7. Spine and Spinal Cord Trauma

8. Musculoskeletal Trauma

9A. Burn

9B. Trauma in Pregnancy

9C. Pediatric Trauma

9D. Trauma in Elderly

9E. Drowning and Near-Drowning

9F. Missile and Bullet Injury

9G. Chemical Injuries

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11. Trauma Scores and ICU Management of Trauma Patients

12. Triaging and Principles of Disaster Management

Index