Handbook of Clinical Trauma Care: The First Hour

By Alice Gervasini, Joseph Blansfield, Dianne Danis, et al.

Book Overview

432 pagesComprehensive focus on emergency assessment and intervention.Details immediate care of trauma patients across the lifespan.Quick reference, outline and bullet format facilitates rapid retrieval of information.Content is presented in a practical, concise, and clinically-focused manner.A focus on the physiology and pathophysiology of injury encourages critical thinking in a logical manner.New chapters include Forensics and Legal Aspects of Trauma, Pain and Pain Management, The Obese Trauma Patient, The Agitated Trauma Patient, and Diagnostic Data.Updated coverage of mass casualty and disaster preparedness to address real-world threats, including weapons of mass destruction and terrorist events.Broadened crisis intervention coverage includes the provision of patient and family support, how to deliver bad news, and how to manage the family's presence during trauma care.New information helps clinicians differentiate intentional versus unintentional trauma events.Content coverage includes the most cutting-edge technological advances in trauma management to keep clinicians at the forefront of trauma care.Thoroughly updated material reflects changes in clinical practice.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 032303232X
• ISBN13: 9780323032322
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"