International trauma life support for emergency care providers
Title:
International trauma life support for emergency care providers
JLCTITLE245:
John Campbell, MD, FACEP, Roy L. Alson, PhD, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, and Alabama Chapter, American College of Emergency Physicians.
Edition:
Eighth edition.
Publication Information:
Boston : Pearson, [2016]
Physical Description:
xvi, 415 pages: illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9780134130798
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Scene size-up -- Trauma assessment and management -- Assessment skills -- Airway management -- Airway skills -- Thoracic trauma -- Thoracic trauma skills -- Shock -- Vascular access skills -- Head trauma and traumatic brain injury -- Spinal trauma and patient-centered spinal motion restriction -- Spine management skills -- Abdominal trauma -- Extremity trauma -- Extremity trauma skills -- Burns -- Pediatric trauma -- Geriatric trauma -- Trauma in pregnancy -- The impaired patient -- Trauma arrest -- Standard precautions and transmission-based precautions.