- Focuses on the unique challenges encountered in pediatric trauma and its clinical management
- Gives a comprehensive approach to treating pediatric trauma patients suffering with a variety of injuries
- Short practically oriented chapter
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.
Table of 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
