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A focused overview of traumatic injuries for emergency medicine clinicians, for use both on shift and as a reference.
List of contents
1. General approach to traumatic injuries Ryan O'Halloran and Kaushal Shah; 2. Trauma airway Colin Kaide and Andrew King; 3. Transfusion in trauma Brit Long; 4. Trauma in pregnancy Michael D. April and R. Erik Connor; 5. Pediatric trauma Manpreet Singh and Tim Horeczko; 6. Geriatric trauma Matthew R. Levine; 7. Head trauma Brit Long; 8. Facial trauma Norah Kairys and Zachary Repanshek; 9. Eye trauma Brandon Morshedi, John D. Pemberton, R. Grant Morshedi and Brit Long; 10. Cervical spine trauma Katja Goldflam; 11. Thoracolumbar trauma Terren Trott; 12. Neck trauma Christopher B. Colwell; 13. Pulmonary trauma Manpreet Singh and Dennis Kim; 14. Cardiac trauma Brit Long; 15. Abdominal and flank trauma Michael Gottlieb; 16. Genitourinary trauma E. Liang Liu; 17. Peripheral vascular injury Richard Slama and Mike Jackson; 18. Pelvic trauma Michael K. Abraham; 19. Upper extremity trauma Kristen Kann; 20. Lower extremity trauma Ryan LaFollette and Jeffery Hill; 21. Burns and electrical injuries Ashley Brady; 22. Procedural sedation and analgesia in trauma Steven G. Schauer and Jason F. Naylor; 23. Commonly missed traumatic injuries Matthew Greer and Brian T. Wessman.
About the author
Alex Koyfman is an assistant professor/assistant program director of emergency medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr Koyfman is an author with more than 170 peer-reviewed publications and an editor of four books. He is Editor-in-Chief for emDocs.net.Brit Long is an attending emergency physician and assistant professor of emergency medicine. Dr Long is an author with over 150 peer-reviewed publications and an editor of two books. He is Associate Editor-in-Chief for emDocs.net.
