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Emergencies in trauma

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Trauma can affect any person of any age, at any time, and in almost any circumstance. Most doctors in some form will deal with trauma; some day-to-day, some as a passer-by, but most at some stage as a junior doctor. The management of such patients is difficult, challenging and time-pressured. This book provides the on-call junior doctor with a rapid reference pocket guide to the management of the key trauma topics. This book is essentially split into two halves. The first half deals with the management of general trauma topics, which are primarily the life-threatening issues. These are dealt w

Title Emergencies in trauma / edited by Aneel Bhangu, Caroline Lee, Keith Porter.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Oxford
New York : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2010
Notes Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Abbreviations
Normal values
Part 1 Trauma
1 Principles of trauma management
2 Airway
3 Breathing
4 Circulation
5 Thoracic trauma
6 Abdominal trauma
7 Head injury
8 Special circumstances
Part 2 Orthopaedics
9 General principles
10 Pelvis
11 Lower limb
12 Upper limb
13 Spine
Index
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B
C
D
E
F
G
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I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
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X
Series Emergencies in-- series
Extent 1 online resource (299 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010712005505171
MARC RECORDS
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