Description
Injuries cause more than half of all childhood deaths and a large proportion of pediatric trauma care is provided by non-pediatric specialists. This book provides an update of current practice, backed by evidence-based recommendations, in four sections:
- Trauma systems for children, including epidemiology, organization of pediatric trauma care, disaster planning and systems for mass pediatric casualties and community injury prevention programs.
- General principles of resuscitation and supportive care.
- Specific injuries commonly seen in children, including from child abuse.
- Rehabilitation, communication, long-term outcomes and performance improvement methods to monitor outcomes.
Table of Contents
- TRAUMA SYSTEMS FOR CHILDREN
- Epidemiology of pediatric trauma. Organizing the community for pediatric trauma
- Disaster planning and mass casualties
- Organizing the hospital for pediatric trauma care.
- GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF RESCUSCITATION AND SUPPORTIVE CARE
- The ABCs of pediatric trauma
- Clearance of the cervical spine in children
- General principles of resuscitation and supportive care: Burns
- Trauma from child abuse
- Imaging the injured child
- Transfusion therapy in injured children
- Pediatric ICU management
- Nutritional support for the pediatric trauma patient
- Pediatric vascular trauma
- Anesthesia for pediatric trauma
- SPECIFIC INJURIES
- Treatment of severe pediatric head injury: Evidence-based practice
- Pediatric facial trauma
- Pediatric thoracic trauma
- Pediatric abdominal trauma
- Pediatric genitourinary trauma
- An overview of pediatric musculoskeletal trauma
- Spine and pelvis trauma
- Extremity trauma
- Lower extremity fractures
- Pediatric hand trauma
- OUTCOMES
- Rehabilitation of the child with injuries
- Communication with families
- Long-term outcomes in injured children
Editors Biography
David Wesson, MD, FACS, is Trauma Medical Director and Associate Surgeon-in-Chief, Texas Children’s Hospital, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Bindi Naik-Mathuria, MD, is Associate Trauma Medical Director, Texas Children’s Hospital, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Additional information
Weight | 1.315 kg |
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