Contents
Machine generated contents note: Contributor list Foreword Preface 1 Activation & Deployment of Pre-hospital Services Andy Thurgood and Matthew Boylan 2 Scene safety and assessment Vic Calland and Pete Williams 3 Motor Vehicle Collision Extrication Malcolm Q. Russell 4 Personal Protective Equipment C Bosanko 5 Monitoring in Prehospital Care Tim Harris & Peter Shirley 6 The Role of Pre-hospital Ultrasound Tim Harris, Adam Bystrzycki & Stefan Mazur 7 The Primary Survey Tim Nutbeam and Matt Boylan 8 Airway Assessment & Management Marten Sandberg and Matthew Boylan 9 Breathing Assessment & Management Marten Sandberg and Matthew Boylan 10 Circulation management R.J. Dawes and Matthew Boylan 11 Analgesia And Procedural Sedation Jon Hulme 12 Emergency Anaesthesia Tim Hooper and David Lockey 13 Cardiac Arrest and End of Life Decisions Walter Kloeck, Efraim Kramer, Martin Botha and David Kloeck 14 Head Injury Jeremy Henning 15 Spinal Injuries Lucas A. Myers, Christopher S. Russi, Matthew Boylan and Tim Nutbeam 16 Abdominal Trauma Keith Roberts 17 Pelvic Trauma Matthew O'Meara, Keith Porter, Tim Nutbeam and Matt Boylan 18 Extremity Traumaa Matthew O'Meara, Keith Porter, Tim Nutbeam and Matt Boylan 19 Management of burns 20 Crush Syndrome & Suspension Trauma Jason van der Velde 21 Ballistic & Blast Trauma Matthew Boylan 22 Medical Emergencies Adam Low and Tim Nutbeam 23 Environmental Injuries Peter Aitken, Mark Little, Ian Norton, Andrew Pearce 24 Environmental Emergencies -- High Altitude Illness Harvey Pynn 25 Drowning, Near Drowning and Immersion Syndrome Tim Nutbeam 26 Diving incidents Tudor A. Codreanu 27 Pregnancy and Childbirth K. Manley, T. Appleyard and T. Draycott 28 Prehospital Management Of The Paediatric Patient Fiona Jewkes 29 The Elderly Patient Tim Nutbeam 30 Prehospital Management of the Bariatric Patient Lynn Gerber Smith, Suzanne Sherwood, Anna Fergusson and Dennis Jones 31 Retrieval and Transport Peter Aitken, Mark Elcock, Neil Ballard and Matt Hooper 32 Mass Gatherings Lee Wallis and Waybe Smith 33 Mass Casualty Damian Keene, Tim Nutbeam and Claire Scanlon 34 Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear (CBRN) Incidents Christopher A. Khan, Kristi L. Kpenig and Matthew Boylan 35 Clinical Governance Assiah Mahmood and Rod Mackenzie 36 Medicolegal & ethical Craig M. Klugman and Jennifer Bard 37 Research and Future Development Suzanne Mason & A. Niroshan SiriwardenaIndex.

Abstract
"This brand new title in the ABC series provides a comprehensive overview of pre-hospital medicine, including transport, patient assessment, emergency care systems, and pre-hospital interventions. With pre-hospital care being the start of the "trauma chain", the treatment patients receive on-scene as well as en-route can be life-saving, and this new title is invaluabe for all staff involved in emergency and pre-hospital medicine"--Provided by publisher.