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• Title:Trauma rules 2 : incorporating military trauma rules / Tim Hodgetts and Lee Turner.
  
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• Variant Title:Trauma rules two
  
• Author/Creator:Hodgetts, T. J.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Turner, Lee, 1966-
  Hodgetts, T. J. Trauma rules.
  
• Published/Created:Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub. : BMJ Books, 2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB39 .H63 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Wounds and injuries--Treatment--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Critical care medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Intensive care units--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  
• Medical Subjects: Emergencies--Handbooks.
  Emergency Medicine--methods--Handbooks.
  Wounds and Injuries--Handbooks.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:x, 145 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Rev. ed. of: Trauma rules. 1997.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-140) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780727916495 (alk. paper)
  0727916491 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Anxiety provokes memory loss : so learn a system and stick to it
  2. All 4 one and one for all
  3. Civilian and military trauma care is different
  4. Any time preparing is time well spent
  5. If in doubt, call the trauma team
  6. Save yourself before the casualty
  7. team leader is always right
  8. Assume the worst and proceed accordingly
  9. Read the wreckage
  10. Do a frisk or take a risk
  11. Don't let the obvious distract from the occult
  12. trauma team can only look or listen, not both
  13. Tourniquets save lives
  14. If the bleeding is dramatic, use a novel haemostatic
  15. If you decide to crack the chest, survival's almost nil at best
  16. airway is more important than the cervical spine
  17. When NEXUS guidelines clear the spine, the spinal board's a waste of time
  18. All trauma patients are dying for oxygen
  19. It is not Jack of intubation that kills, it is lack of oxygenation
  20. Do not delay with a burned airway
  21. Think of cricothyrotomy when all else fails
  22. Look at the neck TWELVE times in the primary survey
  23. hard collar does not protect the cervical spine
  24. All trauma surgeons occasionally miss cervical fractures
  25. When patients with facial injuries look up at heaven they will soon be there
  26. Blood on the floor is lost forever more
  27. Short and thick does the trick
  28. Hidden blood loss will CRAMP your resuscitation
  29. Surgery does not follow resuscitation, it is part of resuscitation
  30. stabbed stay stabbed until they reach theatre
  31. O negative is good, but you can have too much of a good thing
  32. injury above and below the abdomen implies an injury in the abdomen
  33. penetrating wound below the nipple involves the abdomen
  34. Examination of the abdomen is as reliable as flipping a coin
  35. Neurogenic shock is hypovolaemic shock until proved otherwise
  36. Think of the causes of PEA or your patient is for THE CHOP
  37. Respiratory rate is the most sensitive indicator of deterioration, but nurses record TP not TPR
  38. Head injury alone does not cause hypotension
  39. Resuscitate the mother and the baby will look after itself
  40. Children are not small adults
  41. Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others
  42. Limb splintage is part of resuscitation
  43. Glasgow coma scale does not measure prognosis
  44. patient has a front, a back, two sides, a top and a bottom
  45. Put a finger in before putting a tube in
  46. agitated patient will calm down while deteriorating
  47. You are not dead until you are death warmed up
  48. golden rule is golden fluid in the golden hour
  49. It doesn't hurt to give analgesia
  50. golden hour belongs to the patient
  51. You can assess vision with the eyes closed
  52. You may read the newspaper, but you cannot read the DPL
  53. FAST procedure, quick decision
  54. tension pneumothorax cannot be diagnosed on a chest X-ray
  55. supine chest X-ray may be worse than no chest X-ray at all
  56. Investigation must never impede resuscitation
  57. Serial blood gases are the signposts on the road to resuscitation
  58. Patients are transferred, not their injuries or investigations
  59. Never believe a transferring hospital
  60. Better a negative laparotomy than a positive postmortem
  61. Go down the middle and be liberal
  62. Fix the pelvis to fix the bleeding
  63. Biology is the mother of all fixation
  64. solution to pollution is dilution
  65. It doesn't pay to be complacent about an elderly fracture of the rib
  66. missed tertiary survey is a missed injury
  67. With multiple casualties do the most for the most
  68. Black is beautiful, and some things are never as black as they seem
  69. Predicting survival is hit and miss with ISS and TRISS
  70. Stop the clot before it stops the patient
  last rule : Death is the only certainty in life.