Essential Emergency Trauma

Essential Emergency Trauma
ISBN-10
160831894X
ISBN-13
9781608318940
Series
Essential Emergency Trauma
Category
Medical
Pages
512
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Authors
Daniel Egan, Joshua Quaas, Kaushal Shah

Description

Essential Emergency Trauma is a concise, reader-friendly, and portable reference on the care of trauma patients in the emergency department. Geared to practicing emergency physicians, residents, and medical students, the book focuses sharply on the key details needed to stabilize and treat trauma patients with a wide variety of injuries. Major sections cover trauma of each anatomic region. Each section opens with a chapter "The First 15 Minutes, Algorithm, and Decision Making". Subsequent chapters focus on specific injury patterns, emphasizing pathophysiology, diagnosis, evaluation, and management. The information is presented in bullet points with numerous tables and images. Each chapter ends with an up-to-date review of the "Best Evidence".

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