Trauma Care Manual

The Trauma Care Manual 3e is the definitive evidence-based manual of best trauma practice. Now in its third edition, this valuable book continues to provide clear practical guidelines for the management of victims of major trauma. New coverage includes chapters on abdominal and urological trauma, aswell as trauma in the obese patient. Also included is coverage of pre-hospital management; trauma centres, sytems & teams; modern trauma resuscitation; trauma physiology & metabolism; damage control surgery. Written by members of Trauma Care, this book offers a nationally accepted set of standards for good practice.

Preface to the Third EditionList of ContributorsGlossaryAcknowledgementsChapter 1. The Trauma Epidemic Chapter 2. Mechanism of Injury Chapter 3. Triage Chapter 4. Pre-Hospital CareChapter 5. Trauma Systems, Centres and Teams Chapter 6. Patient Assessment Chapter 7. Trauma Physiology and Metabolism Chapter 8. Catastrophic Haemorrhage Chapter 9. Airway Management Chapter 10. Thoracic TraumaChapter 11. Shock ManagementChapter 12. Damage Control Surgery Chapter 13. Head Injury Chapter 14. Maxillofacial TraumaChapter 15. Ophthalmological Trauma Chapter 16. Spinal InjuriesChapter 17. Abdominal and genitourinary trauma Chapter 18. Vascular TraumaChapter 19. Musculoskeletal TraumaChapter 20. Radiology. Chapter 21. Infection in TraumaChapter 22. Injuries in ChildrenChapter 23. Trauma in WomenChapter 24. Trauma in the ElderlyChapter 25. Firearms, Ballistics and Gunshot woundsChapter 26. Blast Injuries Chapter 27. Injuries Due to Burns and Cold Chapter 28. CBRN and the Trauma VictimChapter 29. Care of the Obese Trauma PatientChapter 30. Analgesia and AnaesthesiaChapter 31. Intensive Care Managementof Major TraumaChapter 32. Patient TransferChapter 33. Psychological Aspects of TraumaChapter 34. Rehabilitationafter TraumaChapter 35. Trauma Scoring Systems and Their ApplicationChapter 36. Transplantation and Organ DonationAppendix A. Viscoelastic Haemostatic Assays Index

Col Ian Greaves was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School in 1986, training initially in general medicine. He joined the British Army in 1999 as a consultant in Emergency Medicine. He is a fellow of the Royal Colleges of Emergency Medicine, Physicians (London) and Surgeons of Edinburgh. Between 2008 and 2014 he was Defence Consultant Advisor in Emergency Medicine and clinical lead for Pre-hospital Care for the three Armed Services. He deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Col Greaves was Honorary Surgeon to HM Queen Elizabeth II from 2011 to 2014 and was made Officer of the Order of St John in 2005. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Royal Geographical Society and was made an honorary fellow of the Ambulance Services Institute in 2014 for services to pre-hospital medicine. Col Greaves holds a personal chair at the University of Teesside. He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer of the Order of St John and of St John Ambulance and as an examiner for the fellowships in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine and for postgraduate degrees in trauma at Queen Mary University of London. Col Greaves is the author or editor of textbooks on trauma, pre-hospital Care, major incident management and medical responses to terrorism and is editor of the journal Trauma. He is also a member of the Northern Region NHS Clinical Senate and has been actively involved in NHS clinical service provision reviews. Mr Keith Porter, Chairman of Trauma Care. Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham Major Jeff Garner, Specialist Registrar in General Surgery in the Defence Medical Services, UK