Trauma Rules 2: Incorporating Military Trauma Rules

Trauma Rules 2 retains its lively and fun presentation to help you remember the essential principles of trauma care and feel confident about handling and treating patients appropriately in the first hours of injury. Thoroughly expanded and updated, and now including military trauma rules, the second edition of this popular pocket book now offers:

• 70 easy-to-memorize rules covering the important aspects of trauma care
• clear, authoritative explanations and instructive illustrations
• the three principal stages of trauma management: approach to the patient, initial assessment and resuscitation, and investigation and definitive care

Trauma Rules 2 is compiled especially for those dealing with the immediate and early management of the severely injured patient.

Colonel Tim Hodgetts Honorary Professor of Emergency Medicine and Trauma, University of Birmingham, UK; Defence Consultant Advisor in Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine

Major Lee Turner Officer Commanding 2nd Health Support Team, Palmerston North, New Zealand