| Description |
xvi, 286 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Section A: Pre-hospital medicine. 1. Scene safety I -- 2. Scene safety II -- 3. Entrapment -- 4. Pre-hospital anaesthesia I -- 5. Pre-hospital anaesthesia II -- 6. Pre-hospital equipment -- 7. Preparing for transport I -- 8. Preparing for transport II -- 9. Polytrauma I -- 10. Polytrauma II -- 11. Polytrauma III -- 12. Polytrauma IV -- 13. Polytrauma V -- 14. Penetrating disease I -- 15. Penetrating disease II -- 16. Diving (hyperbaric) emergencies -- 17. Transfer issues -- 18. Pre-hospital sedation -- 19. Multiple patients I -- 20. Multiple patients II -- 21. Pre-hospital tasking and clinical coordination -- 22. Major incident I -- 23. Major incident II -- |
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Section B - Retrieval medicine. 1. Inter and intra hospital transfers -- 2. Flight physiology -- 3. Retrieval equipment -- 4. Critical illness and retrieval I -- 5. Critical illness and retrieval II -- 6. Critical illness and retrieval III -- 7. Critical illness and retrieval IV -- 8. Critical illness and retrieval V -- 9. Paediatric retrieval I -- 10. Paediatric retrieval II -- 11. Paediatric retrieval III -- 12. Unexpected inflight emergency during retrieval -- 13. Diagnostics in retrieval medicine -- 14. Advanced multi-organ support in transit -- 15. Mental illness -- 16. Envenomation -- 17. End of life decisions in the retrieval environment -- 18. Retrieval tasking and clinical coordination -- Section C: Service development and special circumstances. 1. Operational safety and crew resource management (CRM) I -- 2. Operational safety and crew resource management (CRM) II -- 3. Military medicine I -- 4. Military medicine II -- 5. Vertical hoist and physical rescue -- 6. Commercial in-flight emergency -- 7. Event medicine -- 8. Ethics and self management -- 9. Clinical Governance in pre-hospital and retrieval medicine -- 10. Commercial repatriation |
| Summary |
"This book focuses on the principles of PHC and Retrieval medicine and the continuum of care of the critically injured trauma patient in the field. It is case based and uses real pre-hospital and retrieval situations, presented in question format followed by an extensive discussion highlighting key areas of the specialty. The questions and answers are each 3-4 pages in length and most are accompanied by a photo from author archives/real events."--Publisher |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Emergency medical personnel.
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Emergency physicians.
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Disaster medicine.
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Emergency medicine.
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Emergency medicine -- Decision making.
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First aid in illness and injury.
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Emergency physicians -- Study and teaching -- Australia.
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Emergency medicine -- Australia -- Case studies.
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Emergency medicine -- Australia -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Emergency Medicine.
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Critical Care.
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Physicians.
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Emergency Medical Services.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| Genre/Form |
Case Reports.
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Case studies.
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Problems and exercises.
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| Author |
Hooper, Matt
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| ISBN |
0729538842 paperback |
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9780729538848 paperback |
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