Cardiothoracic Trauma

Name: Cardiothoracic Trauma
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ISBN: 9780340573204

ISBN-10: 0340573201

ISBN-13: 9780340573204

Edition: 1999

Authors: Stephen Westaby, John A. Odell

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As it is not always possible to transfer patients to specialist units, this definitive account to current best practice in cardiothoracic trauma covers in some detail the injuries caused in trauma to the heart and/or the major blood vessels near it.

Book details

List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Hodder Education Group
Publication date: 4/29/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.40" wide x 10.80" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.618
Language: English

Eileen E. Schellis associate professor of writing and director of the writing program at Syracuse University. She is the author ofGypsy Academics and Mother-teachers: Gender, Contingent Labor,and Writing Instruction,coauthorofRural Literacies,andcoeditor ofMoving a Mountain: Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education. K. J. Rawsonis a Ph.D. candidate in the composition and cultural rhetoric program at Syracuse University.




Resuscitation And Assessment



The pathophysiology of chest trauma




Logistics of chest trauma management




Imaging of chest trauma




Fluid resuscitation in the patient with chest trauma




Blood conservation and blood substitutes in trauma and cardiovascular surgery




Echocardiography in chest trauma




Thoracoscopy and chest trauma: its role




Thoracic drainage




Thoracotomy




Penetrating Trauma



Penetrating trauma: heart and major vessels




Penetrating trauma to th echest wall, lung, esophagus, trachea and thoracic duct




Penetrating trauma to the inlet and outlet regions of the chest




Transfixion injuries




Management of foreign bodies within the chest




Blunt trauma



Blunt thoracic vascular trauma




Blunt cardiac injury




Trauma to the chest wall and thoracic vertebrae




Injury to the esophagus




Airway trauma




Blunt injury to the lung




General Considerations



Acute respiratory distress syndrome




Scoring systems in the assessment of the trauma patient: are tehy worthwhile?




The use of antibiotics in chest trauma




Pain management in chest trauma




Lung function following traumatic ARDS




Thoracic trauma in children



Index