Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery

Description:

Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery is an easy to read text, written by world class faculty, that provides clinicians with succinct and didactic information about what to do in high intensity, resource limited situations.With global conflicts and humanitarian emergencies on the rise, there has been a dramatic uptake in the number of volunteers for both military and humanitarian operations. This manual aids best practice and fast decision making in the field.

Table of Contents:

1 The Resource-Limited Environment

2 Patterns of Injury

3 Damage Control Resuscitation

4 No Blood … What to Do?

5 Point-of-Care Ultrasound

6 Thoracic Injury Management

7 Junctional and Extremity Vascular Trauma

8 Trauma Laparotomy and Damage Control Laparotomy

9 Damage Control for Severe Pelvic Haemorrhage in Trauma

10 Abdominal Injuries

11 Acute Care Emergency Surgery

12 Frontline Consideration for Paediatric Emergency and Trauma Surgery

13 RLE Orthopaedic Injury Management

14 Neurotrauma in the Field

15 Management of Ballistic Face and Neck Trauma in an Austere Setting

16 Management of Ophthalmic Injuries by the Forward Surgical Team

17 Resource-Limited Environment Plastic Surgery

18 Acute Acoustic Trauma and Blast-Related Hearing Loss

19 Obstetrics in Limited-Resource Settings

Index