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Zusatztext 'This is the latest offering in the series of highly successful Oxford handbooks in emergency medicine. It continues in the same vein as its predecessors providing concise, practical information in an easily readable format...The book will be most useful to the junior doctor as a pocket reference in the first one to two months of a busy accident and emergency post. It will occupy and excellent niche for those wanting a little more detail than the standard accident and emergency texts:it is highly recommended.' Klappentext This compact yet comprehensive handbook will allow emergency staff to investigate and treat hand injuries with confidence! and just as importantly! to see at a glance which patients should be referred immediately to a specialist hand surgeon. Written in a concise and accessible style! it is illustrated throughout with clear and informative diagrams. Zusammenfassung This compact yet comprehensive handbook will allow Accident and Emergency staff to investigate and treat hand injuries with confidence - and just as importantly! to see at a glance which patients should be referred immediately to a specialist hand surgeon. Written in a concise and accessible style! it is illustrated throughout with clear and informative diagrams. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: General Considerations 1.: Introduction 2.: Abbreviations 3.: Anatomy 4.: Assessment 5.: Surgery, splints, dressings 6.: Local anaesthetic techniques Part 2: Soft Tissue Injuries 7.: Nailbed injuries 8.: Gamekeeper's thumb 9.: Glass injury 10.: Simple laceration 11.: Major laceration and crush injuries 12.: Ring avulsion injury 13.: High pressure injections 14.: Burns - thermal 15.: Burns - chemical 16.: Burns - electrical 17.: Frostbite 18.: Skin loss 19.: Amputations (replants) 21.: Foreign bodies Part 3: Tendon and Nerve Injuries 22.: Flexor tendons 23.: Extensor tendon (1 Mallet) 24.: Extensor tendon (2 Boutonniere) 25.: Extensor tendon (3 MP joint) 26.: Extensor tendon (4 hand and wrist) 27.: Nerve injury Part 4: Injuries to Bones and Joints 28.: Fall on outstretched hand 29.: Scaphoid fracture 30.: Lunate dislocation and scapholunate dissociation 31.: Bennett's fracture 32.: Fracture MC shaft/base 33.: Fracture neck 5th MC 34.: Phalangeal fractures 35.: IP joint dislocation 36.: PIPJ swelling (volar plate injury) 37.: Ephiphyseal injuries - (children) Part 5: Infections 38.: Paronychia 39.: Pulp space infection (felon) 40.: Cellulitis 41.: Bite wounds 42.: Septic arthritis 44.: Web space abcess 45.: Palmar space infection Part 6: Patient Transfer Index ...
