Ballistic Trauma A Practical Guide /

Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide provides a concise guide to the clinical and operational issues surrounding the management of the ballistic casualty. The book crystallizes the knowledge and experience accrued by those dealing with ballistic trauma on a regular basis and extends this to those who...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Mahoney, Peter F. (Editor ), Ryan, James (Editor ), Brooks, Adam J. (Editor ), Schwab, C. William (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:2nd ed. 2005.
Temas:
Emergency medicine.
Surgery.
Orthopedic surgery.
Critical care medicine.
Nursing.
Anesthesiology.
Emergency Medicine.
General Surgery.
Surgical Orthopedics.
Intensive Care Medicine.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, Background, and Science
  • The International Small Arms Situation: A Public Health Approach
  • Guns and Bullets
  • Bombs, Mines, Blast, Fragmentation, and Thermobaric Mechanisms of Injury
  • Ballistic Protection
  • Forensic Aspects of Ballistic Injury
  • Ballistic Trauma, Armed Violence, and International Law
  • Clinical Care
  • Prehospital Care
  • Resuscitation and Anesthesia for the Ballistic Casualty
  • Clinical Ballistics: Surgical Management of Soft-Tissue Injuries-General Principles
  • Damage Control
  • Neck Injury
  • Thoracic Injury
  • Penetrating Genitourinary Trauma: Management by the Nonspecialist Surgeon
  • Abdomen and Pelvis
  • Management of Ballistic Trauma to the Head
  • Spinal Injury
  • Limb Injuries
  • Vascular Injury
  • Ballistic Trauma in Children
  • Injuries in Pregnancy
  • Burns
  • Intensive Care of the Trauma Patient with Ballistic Injuries
  • Imaging Triage for Ballistic Trauma
  • Training to Manage Ballistic Trauma
  • Resource Limited Situations
  • Hospital and System Assessment
  • Triage
  • Managing Ballistic Injury in the Military Environment: The Concept of Forward Surgical Support
  • Managing Ballistic Injury in the NGO Environment
  • Expert Tutorials and Hard Lessons
  • Ballistic Missile Injuries in the Siege of Sarajevo 1992-1995
  • Vascular Injuries in the Groin
  • Conflict Surgery
  • Surgery in the Camps
  • Ballistics-Lessons Learned
  • African Education
  • The Role of Intensive Care in the Management of Ballistic Trauma in War
  • Survivors and Shooters
  • Rectal Examination Revisited
  • And Finally
  • Where a Trauma Surgeon Can Go Ballistic?.

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