Pediatric Trauma Care

This book meets the need for a detailed resource that focuses on the unique challenges encountered in pediatric trauma and its clinical management. Short practically oriented chapters describe how to successfully treat a range of injuries across a variety of anatomical areas. Emphasis is placed on accounting for the injury mechanism providing recommendations on rapid assessment, initial stabilization and management strategies.

Pediatric Trauma Care - A Practical Guide, comprehensively covers how to approach treating pediatric trauma patients suffering with a variety of injuries. Therefore, it is an ideal resource for all medical professionals who encounter these patients in their day-to-day practice.

1 Introduction - (Unique Factors to Pediatric Trauma). -2 Injury Prevention. - 3 Trauma Systems and Pedaitric Trauma Centers. - 4 Rural Pediatric Trauma Surgery. - 5 Disaster Management. - 6 Pediatric Trauma in Humanitarian and Deployed Settings. - 7 Initial Trauma Resuscitation. - 8 Airway Management. - 9 Management of Shock. - 10 Blood Tranfusions in Trauma. - 11 VTE Prophylaxis and Treatment. - 12 Surgical Nutrition. - 13 Thromboelastogram. - 14 Traumatic Brain Injury. - 15 Facial Injury. - 16 Neck Injuries. - 17 Spinal Injury. - 18 Thoracic Injury (Lung and Chest Wall). - 19 Penetrating Abdominal Injury. - 20 Liver Injury. - 21 Pancreas, Gallbladder and Duodenum. - 22 Splenic Injury. - 23 Gastric Injury. - 24 Small Bowel/Colon Injury. - 25 Rectal Injury. - 26 Perineal (saddle) injury. - 27 Upper Tract Genitourinary Trauma. - 28 Lower Tract Genitourinary Trauma. - 29 Pelvic injury. - 30 Extremity Orthopedic Injury. - 31 Injuries to the Hand. - 32 Vascular Injuries to the Heart and Great Thoracic Vessels. - 33 Vascular injuries of the Abdominal Vessels. - 34 Vascular Injuries of the Extremity. - 35 Envenomation, bites and stings. - 36 Child Abuse. - 37 Hypothermia and Near-drowning. - 38 Burns. - 39 New Technologies in Pediatric Trauma.