Ryan's Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184882162X ISBN 13: 9781848821620

Publisher: Springer, 2011

Synopsis

Section 1: Personal Views.- A Personal View.- A Personal Experience.- The War in West Philadelphia.- Section Two: Weapons, Blast and Ballistics.- How Guns Work.- The Effects of Bullets.- Bombs, Mines and Fragmentation.- Cluster Munitions.- Shaped Charges and Explosively Formed Projectiles.- Suicide Bombs.- Blast Injury.- Ballistic Protection*.- Forensic Aspects of Ballistic Injury.- Section Three: Trauma Systems.- Civilian Trauma Systems.- Military Trauma System.- Section Four: Prehospital and the Emergency Room.- Triage.- Prehospital Care.- Emergency Department Management.- Imaging Triage for Ballistic Trauma.- Section Five: Advanced Resuscitation and Anaesthesia.- Damage Control Resuscitation.- Battlefield Analgesia.- Anaesthesia for the Ballistic Casualty.- Regional Anaesthesia for the Ballistic Trauma Victim.- Section Six: Clinical Care.- Damage Control Surgery - Concepts.- Management of Ballistic Trauma to the Head.- Spinal Injury.- Eyes.- Maxillofacial Ballistic Injuries.- Neck Injury.- Damage Control.- Management of Vascular Trauma.- Damage Control Part III-Definitive Reconstruction.- Penetrating Genitourinary Trauma.- Burns.- Management of Extremity Injuries.- Ballistic Trauma in Children.- Ballistic Trauma in Pregnancy.- Managing Ballistic Injury in the NGO Environment.- Section Seven: Critical Care.- Critical Care for Ballistic Trauma in Austere Environments.- Transfer and Evacuation.- Critical Care Management: the Patient with Ballistic Trauma.- Critical Care Nursing At Role Four.- The Role of Nutrition in the Treatments of Injured Military Personnel.- Section Eight: Reconstruction & Rehabilitation.- Role 4 and Reconstruction.- Conflict Rehabilitation.- Section Nine: And Finally Have you read MASH?

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184882162X
• ISBN 13: 9781848821620
• Binding: Paperback