Trauma : A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach

Eric Legome

ISBN 10: 0521870577 / ISBN 13: 9780521870573

Published by Cambridge University Press Jul 2011, 2011

About this Item

Neuware - Trauma: A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach is a fully illustrated, interdisciplinary overview of trauma. Using both evidence-based approaches and a practical understanding of the emergency department, it gives a broad and in-depth review of trauma care. The entire spectrum of trauma presentations is reviewed from minor soft-tissue injuries through to major life-threatening conditions. Written by over 50 expert contributors, it gives concrete and practical recommendations for evaluation, treatment, consultation and disposition decisions on both common and unusual conditions. Extensive use of photographs, illustrations and key information boxes is used to make the material accessible. Additional sections provide an overview of multiple other issues relating to emergency management of trauma including administrative, nursing, research and legal matters. This book provides an essential reference for anyone who is called upon to provide acute trauma care in the emergency department.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trauma : A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Jul 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521870577
• ISBN 13: 9780521870573
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 188H x 37D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 188 millimeters height by 37 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1950 grams

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Synopsis

Trauma: A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach is a fully illustrated, interdisciplinary overview of trauma. Using both evidence-based approaches and a practical understanding of the Emergency Department, it gives a broad and in-depth review of trauma care. The entire spectrum of trauma presentations is reviewed from minor soft-tissue injuries through to major life-threatening conditions. Written by over 50 expert contributors, it gives concrete and practical recommendations for evaluation, treatment, consultation and disposition decisions on both common and unusual conditions. Extensive use of photographs, illustrations and key information boxes is used to make the material accessible. Additional sections provide an overview of multiple other issues relating to emergency management of trauma including administrative, nursing, research and legal matters. This book provides an essential reference for anyone who is called upon to provide acute trauma care in the emergency department.

About the Authors

Eric Legome is Chief of Emergency Medicine, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Lee W. Shockley is Medical Director, Emergency Department, the Denver Health Medical Center, and Professor of Emergency Medicine, the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA.