Description
For more than 30 years, International Trauma Life Support has been at the forefront of trauma education at all levels of emergency care worldwide. This practical, hands-on training offers a complete reference covering all skills necessary for rapid assessment, resuscitation, stabilization, and transportation of the trauma patient. Updated with new photos and the latest approaches to the care of the trauma patient, this seventh edition conforms to the most recent AHA/ILCOR guidelines for artificial ventilation and CPR.
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Table of Contents
1. Scene Size Up
2. Trauma Assessment and Management
3. Assessment Skills
4. Airway Management
5. Airway Skills
6. Thoracic Trauma
7. Thoracic Trauma Skills
8. Shock
9. Vascular Access Skills
10. Head Trauma
11. Spinal Trauma
12. Spinal Trauma Skills
13. Abdominal Trauma
14. Extremity Trauma
15. Extremity Trauma Skills
16. Burns
17. Pediatric Trauma
18. Geriatric Trauma
19. Trauma in Pregnancy
20. The Impaired Patient
21. Trauma Arrest
22. Standard Precautions
Appendix A Optional Skills
Appendix B Communications with the Receiving Hospital
Appendix C Multiple Casualty Incidents and Triage
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International Trauma Life Support for Emergency Care Providers, CourseSmart eTextbook, 7th Edition
Format: Electronic Book
$29.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-215756-8
