Pediatric trauma care : a practical guide / Alfred P. Kennedy Jr., Romeo C. Ignacio, Robert Ricca, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Alfred P., Jr., editor.

Ignacio, Romeo C., editor.

Ricca, Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Wounds and injuries--Treatment.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: PEDIATRIC TRAUMA CARE.

ISBN:

9783031086670

3031086678

OCLC:

1365061874

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.