Improving Initial Trauma Management- What’s Next?

Improving Initial Trauma Management- What’s Next?

Within an extensive systematic analysis of trauma associated fatalities in the German capital city Berlin as well multiple trauma as the isolated traumatic brain injury were figured out as leading cause of death. Moreover the authors were able to identify two hotspots of trauma managementpreclinical care and ICU. Thus they suggest a certain shift of the former asserted „trimodal“ contribution o...

Initial management of the trauma patient.

Critical care specialists should be familiar with the initial management of injured patients. Dividing the evaluation and treatment of the patient into the primary, secondary, and tertiary surveys ensures that the multiply injured patient will be managed expeditiously. The primary survey identifies the acute life-threatening problems that must be managed immediately. The secondary survey identi...

Initial Management of the Trauma Patient

The many chapters of this book testify to the many facets of critical care. Most are applicable to trauma patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). In contrast, the initial management of the trauma patient requires a different focus and prioritization. This chapter presents common life-threatening problems that face all critical care physicians who care for trauma victims. Trauma patients look...

Geriatric trauma: Initial evaluation and management

Background: Fractures of the proximal femur constitute a major public health problem, with an annual incidence in Spain of 7.6 cases per 1000 inhabitants over 65 years of age. Hip fractures are frequent in elderly patients, related to osteoporosis and with low energy trauma, which means that they can be considered a geriatric syndrome. Simultaneous ipsilateral extraand intra-articular hip fract...

Whats New in Emergencies Trauma and Shock? Age and Trauma: Geriatric Trauma Patients and Geriatric Trauma Ward Services