Emergencies in Trauma

Front matter
- Symbols Glossary
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Normal values

Part 1 Trauma
- Chapter 1 Principles of trauma management
  - Chapter 1 Principles of trauma management
  - The Trauma team
  - The primary survey
  - Adjuncts to the primary survey
  - Secondary survey
- Chapter 2 Airway
  - Chapter 2 Airway
  - Airway management
  - The definitive airway
  - Needle and surgical cricothyroidotomy
  - Cervical spine injury
  - Management of cervical spine injury
  - Interpreting X-rays of the spine
  - Penetrating neck injury
- Chapter 3 Breathing
  - Chapter 3 Breathing
  - Assessment of breathing
  - Mechanism of chest injury
  - Life-threatening chest injuries
- Chapter 4 Circulation
  - Chapter 4 Circulation
  - Shock
  - Management of hypovolaemia
  - Vascular access
  - Emergency department thoracotomy
  - Pelvic fractures
  - Femoral shaft fracture
- Chapter 5 Thoracic trauma
  - Chapter 5 Thoracic trauma
  - Tension pneumothorax
  - Simple pneumothorax
  - Open pneumothorax
  - Haemothorax
  - Flail chest
  - Cardiac tamponade
  - Chest drain insertion
  - Tracheobronchial injury
  - Laryngeal injury
  - Pulmonary contusion
  - Cardiac contusion
  - Traumatic aortic disruption
  - Traumatic diaphragmatic injury
  - Oesophageal injury
  - Mediastinal penetrating injury
  - Simple rib fractures
  - Sternal fracture
- Chapter 6 Abdominal trauma
  - Chapter 6 Abdominal trauma
  - Assessment of abdominal injury
  - Investigation of abdominal injury
  - Blunt abdominal trauma
  - Blast injury
  - Penetrating abdominal injury
- Chapter 7 Head injury
  - Chapter 7 Head injury
  - Head injury
  - Assessment of head injury
  - Imaging of head injury
  - Management of head injury
  - Follow-up of head injury
- Chapter 8 Special circumstances
  - Chapter 8 Special circumstances
  - Cardiac arrest in trauma
  - Trauma in pregnancy
  - Trauma in children
  - Trauma in the elderly
  - Burns
  - Electrical injury
  - Blast injury

Part 2 Orthopaedics
- Chapter 9 General principles
  - Chapter 9 General principles
  - General principles
  - Assessing the patient with a fracture
  - Interpreting and describing X-rays
  - Open fractures
  - Compartment syndrome
  - Fat embolism syndrome
  - Septic arthritis
  - Aspirating a knee
  - Fractures in children
  - Pathological fractures
  - Post-operative bleeding
- Chapter 10 Pelvis
  - Chapter 10 Pelvis
  - Types of pelvic fractures
- Chapter 11 Lower limb
  - Chapter 11 Lower limb
  - Hip dislocations and acetabular fractures
  - Neck of femur fractures
  - Types of neck of femur fracture
  - Lower femoral fractures
  - Injuries to the patella
  - Dislocation of the knee
  - Ligamental and meniscal injuries
  - Tibial plateau fractures
  - Tibia and fibula shaft fractures
  - Ankle fractures
  - Ankle dislocation
  - Calcaneal fractures
  - Foot fractures
  - Achilles tendon rupture
  - Quadriceps tendon rupture
  - Pretibial lacerations
  - The limping child
- Chapter 12 Upper limb
  - Chapter 12 Upper limb
  - Shoulder dislocation
  - Clavicle fracture
  - Acromioclavicular dislocation
  - Sternoclavicular dislocation
  - Scapular fractures
  - Proximal humerus fractures
  - Humeral shaft fractures
  - Supracondylar fractures
  - Elbow dislocation
  - Radial head dislocation
  - Fractures of the olecranon
  - Other fractures around the elbow
  - Monteggia fracture-dislocation
  - Galeazzi fracture-dislocation
  - Distal radius fractures
  - Other distal radial fractures
  - Distal radial fractures in children
  - Scaphoid fracture
  - Other carpal injuries
  - Assessing the hand
  - Emergency referrals to a specialist hand unit
  - Digital amputations
  - Tendon injuries to the hand
  - Metacarpal and phalangeal fractures
  - Injuries to the thumb
  - Hand infections
- Chapter 13 Spine
  - Chapter 13 Spine
  - Spinal fractures
  - Spinal cord compression and cauda equina syndrome
  - Spinal cord injuries

Index
- Index

This reference provides the on-call junior doctor with a rapid reference guide to the management of the key trauma topics.

About the Authors

Aneel Bhangu, Specialty Trainee General Surgery, West Midlands Deanery, UK,

Caroline Lee, Specialist Registrar in Emergency Medicine, West Midlands Deanery, UK,

Keith Porter, Professor of Clinical Traumatology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK

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