Includes an illustrated introduction to some of the many practical procedures pre-hospital care teams must be able to perform including resuscitative thoracot
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‘Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine at a Glance covers the essentials in an easy-to-digest formula. This volume continues the trend of good quality information, covering enough to give readers a firm and solid grounding in the subject of pre-hospital emergency medicine (PHEM).
The book also acts as an aide‑memoire for the more experienced health professional. Each segment is illustrated with easily understandable and colourful diagrams, as well as tables with the most relevant information, which is great for quick reference … This volume is likely to be well-received as a concise, well-thought‑out reference that contains both up-to-date and emerging techniques used by ambulance personnel and specialist PHEM practitioners.’ – Journal of Paramedic Practice
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
Principles of pre-hospital care
1 History of pre-hospital care
2 Pre-hospital care today
3 Major trauma pathways in the UK
4 Emerging pre-hospital medical care pathways
5 Kinematics and mechanism of Injury
6 Hazardous materials
7 Human factors
8 Pre-hospital transport
9 Scene safety
Initial assessment and management of immediately life-threatening injuries
10 The primary survey
11 Control of major haemorrhage
12 Cervical spine injuries
13 Basic airway management
14 The difficult airway
15 Life-threatening chest trauma
16 Circulation I: haemodynamic instability
17 Circulation II: medical cardiac arrest
18 Circulation III: traumatic cardiac arrest
19 Pain relief and sedation
20 Head injury
21 Spinal injuries
22 Limb Injuries
Special considerations in trauma management
23 Paediatric trauma
24 Trauma in the pregnant woman
25 Trauma in the elderly
Practical skills in pre-hospital emergency medicine
26 Anaesthesia in the pre-hospital environment
27 The emergency surgical airway
28 Peripheral vascular access
29 Chest techniques
30 Resuscitative thoracotomy
31 Pre-hospital ultrasound
32 Packaging
33 Handover
Management of complex problems
34 Major incidents
35 Expedition medicine
36 Event medicine
37 Military pre-hospital emergency care
Careers in pre-hospital emergency medicine
38 Careers in pre-hospital emergency medicine – NHS England
References
Index
