Pt. 1. General features of trauma and its primary management. 1. The epidemiology and measurement of trauma. 2. Initial reception, clinical assessment, and resuscitation -- Pt. 2. System assessment. 3. Head injury. 4. Thoracic injury. 5. Abdominal injury. 6. Spinal and skeletal injury -- Pt. 3. General principles. 7. Shock and the metabolic response to trauma. 8. Volume replacement and blood transfusion. 9. Transfer of the trauma patient -- Pt. 4. Practical procedures; and a note on last things. 10. Practical procedures. 11. Last things