Prehospital care is a growing area in medicine, and emergency treatments are becoming more sophisticated as the potential to save lives grow.

The fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on nuclear and biological emergencies.


Each chapter gives concise and clear guidance and is accompanied by excellent photographs and diagrams.


Edited and written by leading UK trauma authorities, this is a truly comprehensive and practical book for everyday use by emergency medicine staff, nurses, hospital doctors, paramedics, and ambulance services.
Contributors
Acknowledgements

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Initial assesment and management: Primary surgery and resuscitation
David Skinner & Peter Driscoll

2 Secondary survey
Rachel Pery-Johnston

3 Airway
David Watson & Catherine Peters

4 Chest Injuries
Andrew Blyth

5 Hypovolaemic Shock
Jerry P Nolan & Rick Pullinger

6 Head injuries
Lisa Munro-Davies

7 Maxillofacial trauma
Steve Watt-Smith, Sarah Wilson & DK Dhariwal

8 Spine and spinal cord injury
Andrew Swain & Andre Cromhout

9 Abdominal trauma
Munawar Al-Mudhaffer & Philip Hormbrey

10 Urinary tract trauma
Tim Terry & Anthony Deane

11 Limb injuries
Rohit Kotnis, Nigel Rossiter & Keith Willett

12 Eye injuries
John Elston

13 Medical problems in trauma patients
Tom Hughes

14 Trauma Radiology
James Rankine, David Nicholson, Peter Driscoll & Dominic Barron

15 Role of the trauma nurse
Jill Hill

16 Trauma scoring systems
Maralyn Woodford

17 Distressed relatives
Chris McLauchlan

18 Trauma in pregnancy
Rebecca Black & DJ Harrington

19 Paediatric trauma
John Black

20 Trauma in the elderly
Carl L Gwinnutt & Michael A Horan

21 Pre-hospital care
John Black

22 Transfer of the trauma patient
Carl L Gwinnutt & Alastair W Wilson

23 Management of severe burns
Oliver Fenton, Colin Robertson & Orla Austin

24 Chemical, Nuclear, etc
Virginia Murray

25 Blast and Gunshot injuries
Peter F Mahoney, Timothy J Hodgetts, Jon Clasper, Rob Russell & Bruce Jenner

26 Trauma in hostile environments
M Byers, PR Davis, Timothy J Hodgetts & PF Mahoney

26 Psychological trauma
Martin P Deahl

27 Major Incidents
Lizle Blom, Timothy J Hodgetts & John Black

28 Trauma management in the Third World
Doug Wilkinson

Index
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