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Trauma Emergencies, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 41-1 - November 23, 2022
- Editors: Christopher Hicks, Kimberly A. Boswell
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 9 6 9 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 3 9 7 0 - 6
In this issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. Kimberly A. Boswell and Christopher Hicks bring their considerable expertise to Trauma Emergencies. Top experts in… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. Kimberly A. Boswell and Christopher Hicks bring their considerable expertise to Trauma Emergencies. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as management of the complex airway in the trauma setting; neck trauma; trauma in the aging population; pediatric trauma; trauma patients in shock; minor procedures in trauma; and more.
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Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including neurotrauma update; the Big Five: heroic procedures in the trauma bay; new approaches to pain management in trauma; new uses for ultrasound in trauma; intimate partner violence and human trafficking; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on trauma emergencies, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Emergency Medicine
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- Shock in Trauma
- Key points
- Introduction
- Case scenarios
- Physiology of hypovolemia
- Bleeding mimics
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Neurotrauma Update
- Key points
- A changing epidemiology
- Evaluation
- Principles of neuroresuscitation
- Management
- What is the role of intracranial pressure monitoring?
- Multimodality monitoring
- Is there an ideal hyperosmolar therapy?
- Ventilation strategies
- Decompressive craniectomy
- Hypothermia for refractory intracranial hypertension
- Do all patients need seizure prophylaxis?
- Prognosis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Protect That Neck! Management of Blunt and Penetrating Neck Trauma
- Key points
- PART 1. Blunt cerebrovascular injury
- Part 2. penetrating neck injury
- Clinics care points
- Massive Hemorrhage Protocol: A Practical Approach to the Bleeding Trauma Patient
- Key points
- Case example
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta: A Practical Review
- Key points
- Case
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Extracorporeal Life Support for Trauma
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Intimate Partner Violence and Human Trafficking: Trauma We May Not Identify
- Key points
- Introduction
- Intimate partner violence: who is it and what is it
- Intimate partner violence: why emergency providers should care
- Human trafficking: breaking down the myths
- Plenty of needles in the haystack: how do we find these patients on our next shift?
- Barriers to screening
- Police: when should they be involved?
- What about the medicine: care at the intersection of the medical and legal systems
- Writer’s block: how to document this emergency department visit
- Gimme shelter: how to keep your human trafficking/intimate partner violence patient and team safe within the emergency department
- Who you gonna call?
- How to save a life
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Management of Pain and Agitation in Trauma
- Key points
- Introduction: I do not hear breath sounds on the right
- Summary: case resolution
- Clinics care points
- Advances in Trauma Ultrasound
- Key points
- The extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma
- Ultrasound application in critical care management and resuscitation
- Emerging and advanced concepts in trauma and critical care ultrasound
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Clinics care points
- Minor Procedures in Trauma
- Key points
- Central venous catheter
- Tube thoracostomy
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- The Big Five—Lifesaving Procedures in the Trauma Bay
- Key points
- Introduction
- Cricothyroidotomy
- Resuscitative thoracotomy
- Burr hole craniotomy
- The resuscitative hysterotomy
- Lateral Canthotomy
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Trauma in the Aging Population: Geriatric Trauma Pearls
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anatomic and physiologic considerations in geriatric trauma patients
- Frailty
- Trauma systems and trauma in older adults
- Initial resuscitation of the geriatric trauma patient
- Traumatic brain injury
- Spine injuries
- Rib fractures
- Hip and pelvic fractures
- Soft tissue injuries
- Elder abuse
- Goals of care
- Transitions to inpatient care
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Pediatric Trauma
- Key points
- Initial trauma evaluation
- The critical trauma
- Workup and initial management of the critical trauma patient
- Pediatric traumatic arrest
- Pediatric penetrating trauma
- Pediatric blunt trauma
- Pediatric versus adult trauma centers
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 41-1
- Published: November 23, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323939690
- eBook ISBN: 9780323939706
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Christopher Hicks
Affiliations and expertise
St Michael's Hospital, Emergency Department Administration,KB
Kimberly A. Boswell
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine , R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center