As the required textbook for NAEMT's worldwide prehospital trauma life support courses, Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is the definitive source for learning basic and advanced prehospital trauma skills and concepts for both basic and advanced providers. Now revised and expanded to cover all aspects of prehospital trauma - with new chapters on burns, wilderness trauma, tactical considerations, weapons of mass destruction, and triage and disaster management - the 6th edition has become the ultimate trauma text for any EMS provider! The 6th edition is also ideal for use as the trauma component of a EMT or paramedic course or as a general reference tool on trauma assessment and management.
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
Approx. 420 illustrations (400 in full color)
Maße
Höhe: 276 mm
Breite: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-323-03331-2 (9780323033312)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Division One: Energy and Injury
1. Introduction
2. Injury Prevention
3. Kinematics of Trauma
Division Two: Assessment and Management
4. Scene
5. Patient
6. Airway and Ventilation
7. Shock and Fluid Resuscitation
Division Three: Specific Injuries
8. Head Trauma
9. Spinal Trauma
10. Thoracic Trauma
11. Abdominal Trauma
12. Musculoskeletal Trauma
13. New! Burn Trauma
14. Pediatric Trauma
15. Geriatric Trauma
16. New! Environmental Trauma I: Heat and Cold
17. New! Environmental Trauma II: Drowning, Lightning, Diving, and Altitude
Division Four: Summary
18. Golden Principles of Prehospital Trauma Care
Division Five: Special Considerations
19. New! Triage and Disaster Management
20. New! Weapons of Mass Destruction
21. New! Civilian Tactical EMS
22. New! Wilderness Trauma Care
Glossary
Index
8 laminated cards New!
