ABC of Prehospital Emergency Medicine (eBook)

Tim Nutbeam, Matthew Boylan (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF | EPUB

2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-59230-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Prehospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) is a new and evolving field within Prehospital Care and involves the delivery of safe prehospital critical care to seriously ill or injured patients, and safe transfer to or between hospitals. It covers a broad range of medical and traumatic conditions, interventions, clinical providers and physical environments.

ABC of Prehospital Emergency Medicine is the first text to provide a comprehensive overview of this field and with an international team of expert authors is essential reading to anyone involved in the delivery of Prehospital Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care.

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Tim Nutbeam, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

Matt Boylan, Consultant in Military Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Inhalt

Contributor list vii

Foreword xi

Preface xiii

1 Prehospital Emergency Medicine 1
Matthew Boylan and Tim Nutbeam

2 Activation and Deployment 3
Andrew Thurgood and Matthew Boylan

3 Personal Protective Equipment 7
Clare Bosanko and Matthew Boylan

4 Scene Safety and Assessment 13
Vic Calland and Pete Williams

5 The Primary Survey 18
Tim Nutbeam and Matthew Boylan

6 Airway Assessment and Management 20
Marten Sandberg Anders Rostrup Nakstad Peter Anthony Berlac Per Kristian Hyldmo and Matthew Boylan

7 Breathing Assessment and Management 27
Per Kristian Hyldmo Peter Anthony Berlac Anders Rostrup Nakstad Marten Sandberg and Matthew Boylan

8 Circulation Assessment and Management 35
R. J. Dawes and Matthew Boylan

9 Prehospital Anaesthesia 44
Tim Hooper and David Lockey

10 Prehospital Analgesia and Sedation 51
Jonathan Hulme

11 Prehospital Monitoring 57
Tim Harris and Peter Shirley

12 Prehospital Ultrasound 63
Tim Harris Adam Bystrzycki and Stefan Mazur

13 Trauma: Head Injury 70
Jeremy Henning and Clare Hammell

14 Trauma: Spinal Injuries 75
Lucas A. Myers Christopher S. Russi Matthew Boylan and Tim Nutbeam

15 Trauma: Abdominal Injury 81
Keith Roberts

16 Trauma: Pelvic Injury 84
Matt O'Meara Keith Porter and Tim Nutbeam

17 Trauma: Extremity Injury 87
Matt O'Meara Keith Porter and Tim Nutbeam

18 Trauma: Burns 90
Alex Jones Anna Barnard and Keith Allison

19 Trauma: Suspension and Crush 98
Jason van derVelde

20 Trauma: Ballistic and Blast 103
Matthew Boylan

21 Trauma: Extrication of the Trapped Patient 110
Malcolm Q. Russell

22 Cardiac Arrest 118
Walter Kloeck Efraim Kramer Martin Botha and David Kloeck

23 Acute Medical Emergencies 126
Adam Low and Tim Nutbeam

24 Environmental Injuries 134
Peter Aitken Mark Little Ian Norton and Andrew Pearce

25 Environmental: Altitude Injury 141
Harvey Pynn

26 Environmental: Drowning and Near Drowning 144
Tim Nutbeam

27 Environmental: Diving Emergencies 146
Tudor A. Codreanu

28 Care of Special Groups: The Obstetric Patient 150
Kristyn Manley Tracy-Louise Appleyard Tim Draycott and Matthew Boylan

29 Care of Special Groups: The Paediatric Patient 159
Fiona Jewkes and Julian Sandell

30 Care of Special Groups: The Elderly Patient 165
Tim Nutbeam

31 Care of Special Groups: The Bariatric Patient 168
Lynn Gerber Smith Suzanne Sherwood Anna Fergusson and Dennis Jones

32 Retrieval and Transport 172
Peter Aitken Mark Elcock Neil Ballard and Matt Hooper

33 Emergency Preparedness: Major Incident Management 179
Damian Keene Tim Nutbeam and Claire Scanlon

34 Emergency Preparedness: Chemical Biological Radiation and Nuclear Incidents 185
Christopher A. Kahn Kristi L. Koenig and Matthew Boylan

35 Emergency Preparedness: Mass Gatherings 190
Lee Wallis and Wayne Smith

36 Clinical Governance 195
Assiah Mahmood and Rod Mackenzie

37 Medicolegal and Ethical Aspects of Prehospital Emergency Medicine 201
Craig M. Klugman and Jennifer Bard

38 Research and Development in Prehospital Emergency Medicine 206
Suzanne Mason and A. Niroshan Siriwardena

Index 209

Textauszug

Contributor list

Peter Aitken

Associate Professor, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University;

Senior Staff Specialist, Emergency Department, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, QLD;

Acting Clinical Director Counter Disaster, Retrieval Services Queensland, QLD, Australia

 

Keith Allison

Consultant Plastic Surgeon, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

 

Peter Anthony Berlac

Medical Director of Prehospital Emergency Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Tracy-Louise Appleyard

Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK

 

Neil Ballard

Senior Staff Specialist, Aeromedical and Retrieval Services, Ambulance Service of New South Wales;

Senior Staff Specialist, Emergency Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW;

Medical Coordinator, Careflight Queensland, Robina, QLD;

Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

 

Jennifer Bard

Professor of Law and Director, Health Law Program and J.D./M.D. Dual Degree Program, Texas Tech University School of Law;

Professor (Adjunct), Department of Psychiatry, Texas Tech University School of Medicine, Lubbock, TX, USA

 

Anna Barnard

Plastic Surgery Specialist Trainee, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

 

Clare Bosanko

Specialty Doctor Emergency Medicine, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-On-Trent;

Midlands Air Ambulance, Cosford;

West Midlands Ambulance Service Medical Emergency Response Incident Team (MERIT), UK

 

Martin Botha

Chairman, Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa, Regional Training Manager and part-time Lecturer, International SOS and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Matthew Boylan

Consultant in Military Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care,

Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham;

Midlands Air Ambulance, Cosford;

West Midlands Ambulance Service Medical Emergency Response Incident Team (MERIT), UK

Mercia Accident Rescue Service (MARS) BASICS, UK.

 

Adam Bystrzycki

Emergency Physician, Alfred Hospital;

Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

 

Vic Calland

Independent General and Prehospital Practitioner;

Honorary Secretary, British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS), UK

 

Tudor A. Codreanu

Senior Medical Practitioner, Critical Care Directorate, Emergency Department, Bunbury and Busselton Hospitals, South West Health Campus, Bunbury, WA, Australia;

Professor of Disaster Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium

 

MAJOR R. J. Dawes

Specialist Registrar in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, Defence Medical Services, UK

 

Tim Draycott

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Research into Safety & Quality Group, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK

 

Mark Elcock

State Medical Director, Retrieval Services, Queensland, Brisbane, QLD;

Associate Professor, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

 

Anna Fergusson

Specialist Trainee in Anaesthetics, Birmingham School of Anaesthesia, Birmingham, UK

 

Lynn Gerber Smith

Clinical Nurse, Trauma Resusciatation Unit, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Clare Hammell

Consultant Anaesthetist, Leighton Hospital, Crewe, UK

 

Tim Harris

Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care, Royal London Hospital;

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Newham University Hospital, London, UK

 

LT COL Jeremy Henning

Consultant in Anaesthesia & ICU, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough;

Defence Lecturer in Critical Care, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

 

Per Kristian Hyldmo

Consultant in Anesthesiology, Air Ambulance Department, Sorlandet Hospital, Kristiansand, Norway

 

Matt Hooper

Executive Director, MedSTAR Emergency Medical Retrieval Service;

Associate Professor, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

 

Tim Hooper

Specialist Registrar, London HEMS & Defence Medical Services, London, UK

 

Jonathan Hulme

Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, City Hospital, Birmingham;

Medical Director, West Midlands Central Accident Resuscitation & Emergency (CARE) Team, Birmingham;

West Midlands Ambulance Service Medical Emergency Response Incident Team (MERIT);

Midlands Air Ambulance, Cosford, UK

 

Fiona Jewkes

Clinical Author, NHS Pathways Connecting for Health, Leeds, UK

 

Alex Jones

Plastic Surgery Specialist Trainee, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

 

Dennis Jones

Critical Care Flight Nurse, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Christopher A. Kahn

Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine,

Director, Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine Fellowship

Base Hospital Medical Director

Emergency Preparedness and Response Medical Co-Director

Department of Emergency Medicine

University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

 

Damian Keene

Specialist Trainee, Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Centre For Defence Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK;

West Midlands Ambulance Service Medical Emergency Response Incident Team (MERIT);

Midlands Air Ambulance, Cosford, UK

 

David Kloeck

Paediatric Intensive Care Fellow, Paediatric Intensive Care, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto;

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Walter Kloeck

Hon Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Chairman, Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa

 

Craig M. Klugman

Professor and Chair, Department of Health Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

 

Kristi L. Koenig

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director, Centre for Disaster Medicine, Director of Public Health Preparedness, Director, International Disaster Medical Sciences Fellowship, University of California at Irvine, Orange, CA, USA

 

Efraim Kramer

Adjunct Professor and Head, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Mark Little

Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist, Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, QLD;

Associate Professor, Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

 

David Lockey

Consultant, North Bristol NHS Trust and London's Air Ambulance, Hon Professor, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

 

Adam Low

Specialist Registrar in Anaesthetics, West Midlands Deanery, Birmingham;

West Midlands Ambulance Service Medical Emergency Response Incident Team (MERIT), UK

 

Rod Mackenzie

Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Emergency Medicine, Clinical Director, Major Trauma Service, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

 

Assiah Mahmood

Clinical Governance Manager, Magpas Helimedix, St. Ives, UK

 

Kristyn Manley

Registrar Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK

 

Suzanne Mason

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Health Services Research, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

 

Stefan Mazur

Prehospital and Retrieval Physician and Operations Lead Consultant, MedSTAR, South Australian Emergency Medical Retrieval Service;

Emergency Physician, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, QLD;

Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

 

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.7.2013
• Reihe/Serie: ABC Series
• Reihe/Serie: ABC Series
• Reihe/Serie: ABC Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe ► Rettungsassistent / -sanitäter
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Schlagworte: ABC • Allgemeine u. Innere Medizin • between hospitals • broad • comprehensive overview • Conditions • Delivery • Deployment • Emergency • Emergency Medicine & Trauma • evolving • Field • First • General & Internal Medicine • Intensive/Critical Care • Intensivpflege • Matthew • Medical • Medical Science • Medicine • Medizin • New • Notfallmedizin • Notfallmedizin u. Traumatologie • phem • Physical • prehospital • Range • SAFE • Text • thurgood • Transfer
• ISBN-10: 1-118-59230-1 / 1118592301
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-59230-4 / 9781118592304