Trauma Rules 2: Incorporating Military Trauma Rules

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Trauma Rules 2 retains its lively and fun presentation to help you remember the essential principles of trauma care and feel confident about handling and treating patients appropriately in the first hours of injury. Thoroughly expanded and updated, and now including military trauma rules, the second edition of this popular pocket book now offers: 70 easy-to-memorize rules covering the important aspects of trauma care clear, authoritative explanations and instructive illustrations the three principal stages of trauma management: approach to the patient, initial assessment and resuscitation, and investigation and definitive care Trauma Rules 2 is compiled especially for those dealing with the immediate and early management of the severely injured patient.Content: Chapter 1 Anxiety Provokes Memory Loss: So Learn a System and Stick to it (page 3): Chapter 2 All 4 One and One for All (pages 4–5): Chapter 3 Civilian and Military Trauma Care is Different (pages 6–8): Chapter 4 Any Time Preparing is Time Well Spent or Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance (page 11): Chapter 5 If in Doubt, Call the Trauma Team (pages 12–13): Chapter 6 Save Yourself Before the Casualty (pages 14–15): Chapter 7 The Team Leader is Always Right (pages 16–17): Chapter 8 Assume the Worst and Proceed Accordingly (pages 20–21): Chapter 9 Read the Wreckage (pages 22–23): Chapter 10 Do a Frisk or Take a Risk (page 24): Chapter 11 Don't Let the Obvious Distract From the Occult (page 25): Chapter 12 The Trauma Team Can Only Look or Listen, Not Both (pages 26–27): Chapter 13 Tourniquets Save Lives (pages 30–31): Chapter 14 If the Bleeding is Dramatic, Use a Novel Haemostatic (pages 32–33): Chapter 15 If You Decide to Crack the Chest, Survival's almost Nil at Best (pages 34–35): Chapter 16 The Airway is More Important than the Cervical Spine (pages 36–37): Chapter 17 When NEXUS Guidelines Clear the Spine, the Spinal Board's a Waste of Time (pages 38–39): Chapter 18 All Trauma Patients are Dying for Oxygen (pages 40–41): Chapter 19 It is Not Lack of Intubation that Kills, it is Lack of Oxygenation (pages 42–43): Chapter 20 Do Not Delay With a Burned Airway (pages 44–45): Chapter 21 Think of Cricothyrotomy When All Else Fails (pages 46–47): Chapter 22 Look at the Neck TWELVE Times in the Primary Survey (pages 48–49): Chapter 23 A Hard Collar Does Not Protect the Cervical Spine (pages 50–51): Chapter 24 All Trauma Surgeons Occasionally Miss Cervical Fractures (pages 52–53): Chapter 25 When Patients With Facial Injuries Look Up At Heaven They Will Soon Be There (page 54): Chapter 26 Blood on the Floor is Lost Forever More (page 55): Chapter 27 Short and Thick Does the Trick (pages 56–57): Chapter 28 Hidden Blood Loss Will CRAMP Your Resuscitation (pages 58–59): Chapter 29 Surgery Does Not Follow Resuscitation, it is Part of Resuscitation (page 60): Chapter 30 The Stabbed Stay Stabbed Until They Reach Theatre (page 61): Chapter 31 O Negative is Good, But You Can Have Too Much of a Good Thing (pages 62–63): Chapter 32 An Injury Above and Below the Abdomen Implies an Injury in the Abdomen … Unless You Have Been Hit by a Giant Flying Horseshoe! (pages 64–65): Chapter 33 A Penetrating Wound Below the Nipple Involves the Abdomen (pages 66–67): Chapter 34 Examination of the Abdomen is as Reliable as Flipping a Coin (page 68): Chapter 35 Neurogenic Shock is Hypovolaemic Shock Until Proved Otherwise (page 69): Chapter 36 Think of the Causes of PEA or Your Patient is for THE CHOP (pages 70–71): Chapter 37 Respiratory Rate is the Most Sensitive Indicator of Deterioration, but Nurses Record TP not TPR (pages 72–73): Chapter 38 Head Injury Alone Does Not Cause Hypotension (pages 74–75): Chapter 39 Resuscitate the Mother and the Baby Will Look After Itself (pages 76–77): Chapter 40 Children are not Small Adults (pages 78–79): Chapter 41 Everyone is Equal, but Some Are More Equal Than Others (pages 80–81): Chapter 42 Limb Splintage is Part of Resuscitation (pages 82–83): Chapter 43 The Glasgow Coma Scale Does Not Measure Prognosis (pages 84–85): Chapter 44 A Patient has a Front and a Back, Two Sides, a Top and a Bottom or Roll the Patient Three Over, Three Under (pages 86–87): Chapter 45 Put a Finger in Before Putting a Tube in (pages 88–89): Chapter 46 The Agitated Patient Will Calm Down While Deteriorating (pages 90–91): Chapter 47 You are not Dead Until you are Death Warmed Up (page 92): Chapter 48 The Golden Rule is Golden Fluid in the Golden Hour (page 93): Chapter 49 It Doesn't Hurt to Give Analgesia (pages 94–96): Chapter 50 The Golden Hour Belongs to the Patient (pages 98–99): Chapter 51 You Can Assess Vision With the Eyes Closed (page 100): Chapter 52 You May Read the Newspaper, But You Cannot Read the DPL (pages 101–103): Chapter 53 FAST Procedure, Quick Decision (pages 104–105): Chapter 54 A Tension Pneumothorax Cannot be Diagnosed on a Chest X?ray (pages 106–107): Chapter 55 A Supine Chest X?ray May Be Worse than No Chest X?ray at All (page 108): Chapter 56 Investigation Must Never Impede Resuscitation (page 109): Chapter 57 Serial Blood Gases are the Signposts on the Road to Resuscitation (pages 110–111): Chapter 58 Patients are Transferred, not Their Injuries or Investigations (page 112): Chapter 59 Never Believe a Transferring Hospital (pages 113–114): Chapter 60 Better a Negative Laparotomy than a Positive Postmortem (page 115): Chapter 61 Go Down the Middle and be Liberal (pages 116–117): Chapter 62 Fix the Pelvis to Fix the Bleeding (pages 118–119): Chapter 63 Biology is the Mother of all Fixation (page 120): Chapter 64 The Solution to Pollution is Dilution (page 121): Chapter 65 It Doesn't Pay to be Complacent About an Elderly Fracture of the Rib (pages 122–123): Chapter 66 A Missed Tertiary Survey is a Missed Injury (pages 124–125): Chapter 67 With Multiple Casualties, Do the Most for the Most (pages 126–127): Chapter 68 Black is Beautiful, and Some Things are Never as Black as they Seem (page 128): Chapter 69 Predicting Survival is Hit and Miss With ISS and TRISS (pages 129–130): Chapter 70 Stop the Clot Before it Stops the Patient (pages 131–133):