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.

Focuses on the unique challenges encountered in pediatric trauma and its clinical management

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.