Description
Book SynopsisCovers the processes involved in transporting sick children and neonates. This book includes: principles of safe transport; transport physiology; the ambulance environment; equipment and monitoring; air transport of critically ill children; neonatal resuscitation and stabilization; and, paediatric resuscitation and stabilization.
Table of ContentsContributors.
Acknowledgements.
Foreword.
Principles of safe transport.
Transport physiology.
The ambulance environment.
Equipment and monitoring.
Air transport of critically ill children.
Neonatal transport.
Neonatal resuscitation.
Paediatric resuscitation and stabilisation.
Management of the airway.
Management of the circulation.
Trauma.
Drugs.
Special transport interventions.
What to do when it all goes wrong.
Drugs.
Appendix 1: Typical retrival forms.
Appendix 2: Essential equations and aide-mémores.
Selected references and bibliography.
Index
