Lecture notes [[electronic resource] ] Emergency medicine / / Chris Moulton, David Yates

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462554103321
• Autore: Moulton Chris
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford [U.K.], : Blackwell, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-64454-1; 1-118-35075-8; 1-118-35073-1
• Edizione: [4th ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (458 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes
• Altri autori (Persone): YatesDavid W; MoultonChris
• Disciplina: 616.02/5; 616.025
• Soggetti: Emergency medicine; Critical care medicine; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface to the fourth edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1: What every emergency physician must know; What to do in an emergency; A - Airway; B - Breathing; C - Circulation; D - Disability; E - Environment and exposure; F - Fits; G - Glucose; H - History; I - Immediate analgesia and investigations; Further management in the ED; How much history, how much examination?; Investigations; Definitive care; Homelessness; Prehospital care; Major incidents; Sedation and general anaesthesia; Preparation for sedation and selection of patientsFacilities for the administration of sedation or general anaesthesia; Conditions during the period of sedation; Assessment of the level of sedation; Drugs for sedation in the ED; Discharge of patients who have received sedative drugs in the ED; 2: Major trauma and multiple injuries; Epidemiology; Trauma care; Preparation for reception of trauma victims; The primary survey and resuscitation phase (initial assessment and management); The secondary survey (further assessment); The chain of care; Primary ; survey and resuscitation; Airway; Breathing; CirculationDisability; Exposure; Further care of the trauma patient; The secondary survey; Investigations in trauma; Further assessment of the abdomen in multiple trauma; Definitive care of the trauma patient; Special situations; Blast injuries; Drowning; Suffocation and asphyxiation; Paediatric trauma; Trauma in pregnancy; Other aspects of trauma care; Bereaved relatives; Trauma scores; 3: Head injuries; Biomechanics and brain injury; The patient with a depressed level of consciousness; Immediate assessment and management; Further assessment and management; Management of specific problems; Guidelines for neurosurgical consultationThe ambulant patient with a head injury; History; Assessment; Imaging; Patients at risk of developing complications after a head injury; Ambulant patients with head injuries who are not obviously at risk; Advice to discharged patients ('head injury instructions'); Head injuries in children; Specific injuries; Fracture of the vault of the skull; Compound fracture of the skull; Depressed fracture of the skull; Fracture of the base of the skull; Aerocele; Extradural haematoma; Acute subdural haematoma; Chronic subdural haematoma; Subarachnoid haemorrhage; Cerebral contusionsTransient complications after minor head injury; Prolonged symptoms after apparently minor traumatic brain injury; Radiology of the skull; 4: The neck and the back; Immediate assessment and management; Injury to the spinal cord; Initial management of spinal cord injury; Special problems that may accompany injury to the spinal cord; Localisation of spinal cord damage; Delayed improvement or deterioration after spinal cord injury; Cord syndromes; Imaging and clearance of the spine in trauma; Radiographs of the cervical spine; Radiographs of the thoracolumbar spine; Clearance of the spine
• Sommario/riassunto: Emergency Medicine Lecture Notes provides all the necessary information, within one short volume, for a sound introduction to this core specialty area. Presented in a user-friendly format, combining readability with flowcharts and high-quality illustrations, this fourth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent advances in the field of emergency medicine. For this new edition, Emergency Medicine Lecture Notes features: Illustrations and flow charts in a two colour presentation throughout More detail on imaging, diagnosis and management of a wid