Main description:

This book meets the need for a detailed resource that focuses on the unique challenges encountered in pediatric trauma and its clinical management. Short practically oriented chapters describe how to successfully treat a range of injuries across a variety of anatomical areas. Emphasis is placed on accounting for the injury mechanism providing recommendations on rapid assessment, initial stabilization and management strategies.

Pediatric Trauma Care - A Practical Guide, comprehensively covers how to approach treating pediatric trauma patients suffering with a variety of injuries. Therefore, it is an ideal resource for all medical professionals who encounter these patients in their day-to-day practice.

Contents:

1 Introduction - (Unique Factors to Pediatric Trauma) 2 Injury Prevention 3 Trauma Systems and Pedaitric Trauma Centers 4 Rural Pediatric Trauma Surgery 5 Disaster Management 6 Pediatric Trauma in Humanitarian and Deployed Settings 7 Initial Trauma Resuscitation 8 Airway Management 9 Management of Shock 10 Blood Tranfusions in Trauma 11 VTE Prophylaxis and Treatment 12 Surgical Nutrition 13 Thromboelastogram 14 Traumatic Brain Injury 15 Facial Injury 16 Neck Injuries 17 Spinal Injury 18 Thoracic Injury (Lung and Chest Wall) 19 Penetrating Abdominal Injury 20 Liver Injury 21 Pancreas, Gallbladder and Duodenum 22 Splenic Injury 23 Gastric Injury 24 Small Bowel/Colon Injury 25 Rectal Injury 26 Perineal (saddle) injury 27 Upper Tract Genitourinary Trauma 28 Lower Tract Genitourinary Trauma 29 Pelvic injury 30 Extremity Orthopedic Injury 31 Injuries to the Hand 32 Vascular Injuries to the Heart and Great Thoracic Vessels 33 Vascular injuries of the Abdominal Vessels 34 Vascular Injuries of the Extremity 35 Envenomation, bites and stings 36 Child Abuse 37 Hypothermia and Near-drowning 38 Burns 39 New Technologies in Pediatric Trauma