ABC of prehospital emergency medicine / edited by Tim Nutbeam, Matthew Boylan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nutbeam, Tim.

Boylan, Matthew.

Series:

ABC series (Malden, Mass.)

ABC Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency medicine.

Medical emergencies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prehospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) is a new and evolving field within Prehospital Care and involves the delivery of safe prehospital critical care to seriously ill or injured patients, and safe transfer to or between hospitals. It covers a broad range of medical and traumatic conditions, interventions, clinical providers and physical environments.ABC of Prehospital Emergency Medicine is the first text to provide a comprehensive overview of this field and with an international team of expert authors is essential reading to anyone involved in the delivery of Prehospital

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributor list; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 Prehospital Emergency Medicine; Introduction; Prehospital emergency medicine; Training in PHEM; Summary; Further reading; Chapter 2 Activation and Deployment; Introduction; Activation of prehospital services; Call handling; Call prioritization; Dispatch; Deployment of prehospital services; Further reading; Chapter 3 Personal Protective Equipment; Introduction; Legislation; The role of PPE; Essential personal protective equipment for prehospital practitioners; Helmet; Eye protection; Ear protection

Face masksClinical gloves; Extrication gloves; High-visibility clothing; Boots; Additional items; Specialist personal protective equipment; Helicopter Emergency Medical Services operations; Urban search and rescue; Tactical operations; Water operations; CBRN/HAZMAT incidents; Further reading; Chapter 4 Scene Safety and Assessment; Introduction; Safety; Where is the danger?; Communicate; Read the wreckage; Fall from height; Motor vehicle collisions; Everyone found?; Assessment of the patients; Method of extrication; Evacuation; Right hospital; Further reading; Chapter 5 The Primary Survey

IntroductionFurther reading; Chapter 6 Airway Assessment and Management; Introduction; Airway assessment; Look; Listen; Feel; Difficult airway assessment; Airway management; Patient positioning; Suction; Foreign body removal; Facial fracture reduction; Manual airway manoeuvres; Basic airway adjuncts; Supraglottic airway devices; Endotracheal intubation; Cricothyroidotomy; Further reading; Chapter 7 Breathing Assessment and Management; Introduction; Respiratory failure; Assessment of breathing; Look; Feel; Listen; Monitor; Management of respiratory failure; Oxygen administration; Ventilation

Patient positioningLife-threatening breathing problems: trauma; Tension pneumothorax; Open pneumothorax; Massive haemothorax; Flail chest; Other chest injuries; Life-threatening breathing problems: medical; Further reading; Chapter 8 Circulation Assessment and Management; Introduction; Hypovolaemic shock; Hypovolaemia in trauma; Cardiogenic shock; Distributive shock; Obstructive shock; Assessment of the circulation; Compensated shock; Decompensated shock; Aids to identifying shock; Management of the shocked trauma patient; Control of external haemorrhage

Control of non-compressible torso haemorrhageControl of skeletal haemorrhage; Control of maxillofacial haemorrhage; Circulatory access; Fluid resuscitation; Minimal handling techniques; Tranexamic acid; Hypothermia mitigation; Triage; Management of the shocked medical patient; Further reading; Chapter 9 Prehospital Anaesthesia; Introduction; Evidence base; The team approach; Training and skills required; Minimum monitoring standards; Current recommended minimum standards for practice; Drugs; Procedural summary; General principles; Preparation; Pre-induction; Induction and intubation

Post intubation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 2, 2013).

ISBN:

9781118592281

111859228X

OCLC:

853364616