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International Trauma Life Support / Brady International trauma life support for prehospital care providers International trauma life support for prehospital care providers edited by John Emory Campbell ; Alabama Chapter, American College of Emergency Physicians. - 6th ed. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2008. - xxiii, 438 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Rev. ed. of Basic trauma life support for paramedics and other advanced providers. 5th ed. c2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scene size-up -- Assessment and initial management of the trauma patient -- Patient assessment skills -- Initial airway management -- Thoracic trauma -- Thoracic trauma skills -- Shock evaluation and management -- Fluid resuscitation skills -- Head trauma -- Spinal trauma -- Spine management skills -- Abdominal trauma -- Extremity trauma -- Extremity trauma skills -- Burns -- Trauma in children -- Trauma in the elderly -- Trauma in pregnancy -- Patients under the influence of alcohol or drugs -- The trauma cardiopulmonary arrest -- Standard precautions in the prehospital setting.


System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Windows 98 or newer.
System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Macintosh 9.X and OSX.

ISBN: 9780132379823 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0132379821 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Traumatology.
Medical emergencies.
Emergency medical technicians.
Emergency Medical Services--methods.
Life Support Care--methods.
Wounds and Injuries--therapy.

LC Class. No.: RC86.7 / .B3775 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 617.1/026