The Trauma Manual:Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (Paperback)

The thoroughly updated Third Edition of this popular and widely used pocket reference guides the trauma team through every aspect of patient care after injury and before, during, and after acute care surgery from prehospital care, to resuscitation, treatment of specific organ injuries, priorities in intensive care, and management of special situations. Designed for rapid, on-the-spot information retrieval, this manual will be a staple reference in emergency departments and trauma centers. Flow charts, algorithms, sequential lists, and tables throughout facilitate quick clinical decision-making. More than 200 illustrations demonstrate specific injuries and procedures. Appendices include organ injury scales, tetanus prophylaxis recommendations, and frequently used forms. "Doody's Core Titles & trade 2009."

Table of Contents
Contributing Authors
Foreword by C. Miller Fisher
Foreword by Thomas R. Swift
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
1 Coma, Head Trauma, and Spinal Cord Injury
2 Epilepsy
3 Dizziness
4 Back and Neck Pain
5 Sleep Disorders
6 Neurooncology
7 Multiple Sclerosis and Other Demyelinating Diseases
8 Motor Neuropathies and Peripheral Neuropathies
9 Neuromuscular Junction Disorders and Myopathies
10 Chronic Pain
11 Headache and Faci
al Pain 12 Stroke and Cerebrovas
cular Disorders 13 Movement Disorders
14 Behavioral Neurology and Dementia
15 Neuroophthalmology
16 Toxic and Metabolic Disorders
17 Infections of the Central Nervous System
Drug Index
Subject Index