ABC of prehospital emergency medicine / / edited by Tim Nutbeam, Matthew Boylan |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 p.) |
Disciplina | 616.025 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
NutbeamTim
BoylanMatthew |
Collana | ABC Series |
Soggetto topico |
Emergency medicine
Medical emergencies |
ISBN |
1-118-59230-1
1-118-59228-X |
Classificazione |
492.29
WB 105 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributor list; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 Prehospital Emergency Medicine; Introduction; Prehospital emergency medicine; Training in PHEM; Summary; Further reading; Chapter 2 Activation and Deployment; Introduction; Activation of prehospital services; Call handling; Call prioritization; Dispatch; Deployment of prehospital services; Further reading; Chapter 3 Personal Protective Equipment; Introduction; Legislation; The role of PPE; Essential personal protective equipment for prehospital practitioners; Helmet; Eye protection; Ear protection
Face masksClinical gloves; Extrication gloves; High-visibility clothing; Boots; Additional items; Specialist personal protective equipment; Helicopter Emergency Medical Services operations; Urban search and rescue; Tactical operations; Water operations; CBRN/HAZMAT incidents; Further reading; Chapter 4 Scene Safety and Assessment; Introduction; Safety; Where is the danger?; Communicate; Read the wreckage; Fall from height; Motor vehicle collisions; Everyone found?; Assessment of the patients; Method of extrication; Evacuation; Right hospital; Further reading; Chapter 5 The Primary Survey IntroductionFurther reading; Chapter 6 Airway Assessment and Management; Introduction; Airway assessment; Look; Listen; Feel; Difficult airway assessment; Airway management; Patient positioning; Suction; Foreign body removal; Facial fracture reduction; Manual airway manoeuvres; Basic airway adjuncts; Supraglottic airway devices; Endotracheal intubation; Cricothyroidotomy; Further reading; Chapter 7 Breathing Assessment and Management; Introduction; Respiratory failure; Assessment of breathing; Look; Feel; Listen; Monitor; Management of respiratory failure; Oxygen administration; Ventilation Patient positioningLife-threatening breathing problems: trauma; Tension pneumothorax; Open pneumothorax; Massive haemothorax; Flail chest; Other chest injuries; Life-threatening breathing problems: medical; Further reading; Chapter 8 Circulation Assessment and Management; Introduction; Hypovolaemic shock; Hypovolaemia in trauma; Cardiogenic shock; Distributive shock; Obstructive shock; Assessment of the circulation; Compensated shock; Decompensated shock; Aids to identifying shock; Management of the shocked trauma patient; Control of external haemorrhage Control of non-compressible torso haemorrhageControl of skeletal haemorrhage; Control of maxillofacial haemorrhage; Circulatory access; Fluid resuscitation; Minimal handling techniques; Tranexamic acid; Hypothermia mitigation; Triage; Management of the shocked medical patient; Further reading; Chapter 9 Prehospital Anaesthesia; Introduction; Evidence base; The team approach; Training and skills required; Minimum monitoring standards; Current recommended minimum standards for practice; Drugs; Procedural summary; General principles; Preparation; Pre-induction; Induction and intubation Post intubation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823825903321 |
Chichester, England, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lecture notes [[electronic resource] ] Emergency medicine / / Chris Moulton, David Yates |
Autore | Moulton Chris |
Edizione | [4th ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford [U.K.], : Blackwell, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
Disciplina |
616.02/5
616.025 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
YatesDavid W
MoultonChris |
Collana | Lecture notes |
Soggetto topico |
Emergency medicine
Critical care medicine |
ISBN |
1-283-64454-1
1-118-35075-8 1-118-35073-1 |
Classificazione |
492.29
616.02/5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Altri titoli varianti | Emergency medicine |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785733103321 |
Moulton Chris | ||
Malden, MA ; ; Oxford [U.K.], : Blackwell, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lecture notes Emergency medicine / / Chris Moulton, David Yates |
Edizione | [4th ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA ; ; Oxford [U.K.], : Blackwell, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
Disciplina |
616.02/5
616.025 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
MoultonChris
YatesDavid W |
Collana | Lecture notes |
Soggetto topico |
Critical care medicine
Emergency medicine |
ISBN |
1-283-64454-1
1-118-35075-8 1-118-35073-1 |
Classificazione |
492.29
616.02/5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Altri titoli varianti | Emergency medicine |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820988803321 |
Malden, MA ; ; Oxford [U.K.], : Blackwell, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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