Overview
- Makes extensive use of military authors with experience of managing complex trauma during deployed operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Uses flow chart diagrams as the centre of each chapter to assist readers in rapidly visualising and following a strategy for a variety of clinical problems and situations
- Contains sections within each relevant chapter on managing patients when resources are lacking
Part of the book series: In Clinical Practice (ICP)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
There is a growing cadre of critical care specialists in the UK, underpinned by a large number of doctors in training within the specialty. Management of patients with severe traumatic injury is provided by intensive care specialists, often in conjunction with a range of other professionals such as surgeons and interventional radiologists.
The management of these patients, who have competing complex injuries can be challenging. Traumatic injury is recognised as a significant cause of preventable mortality and such patients are now clustered within Major Trauma Centres across the UK.
The Defence Medical Services of the UK have spent the last 10 years managing patients with very severe traumatic injuries, first in Iraq and most recently in Afghanistan. The lessons learnt from this experience has filtered through to the NHS, resulting in many changes to established practice.
Whilst several books have been published based on this experience, none have focused on the intensive care management of such patients, which represents a vital link in the chain of survival from injury to recovery.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Surgeon Commander Sam Hutchings is the Royal Navy’s head of specialty for Intensive Care Medicine and undertakes his clinical practice at King’s College Hospital, London. He is also a clinical academic with areas of research interest covering resuscitation endpoints in traumatic haemorrhage and the use of novel point of care perfusion assessment tools. He has deployed operationally to Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trauma and Combat Critical Care in Clinical Practice
Editors: Sam D. Hutchings
Series Title: In Clinical Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28758-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28756-0Published: 02 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28758-4Published: 24 October 2016
Series ISSN: 2199-6652
Series E-ISSN: 2199-6660
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 529
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 89 illustrations in colour
Topics: Emergency Medicine, Traumatic Surgery, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine