Main description:

Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery is an easy to read text, written by world class faculty, that provides clinicians with succinct and didactic information about what to do in high intensity, resource limited situations.With global conflicts and humanitarian emergencies on the rise, there has been a dramatic uptake in the number of volunteers for both military and humanitarian operations. This manual aids best practice and fast decision making in the field.

Contents:

Forewords. Preface. Editors. Contributors. The Resource-Limited Environment. Patterns of Injury. Damage Control Resuscitation. No Blood. .. What to Do? Point-of-Care Ultrasound. Thoracic Injury Management. Junctional and Extremity Vascular Trauma. Trauma Laparotomy and Damage Control Laparotomy. Damage Control for Severe Pelvic Haemorrhage in Trauma. Abdominal Injuries. Acute Care Emergency Surgery. Frontline Consideration for Paediatric Emergency and Trauma Surgery. RLE Orthopaedic Injury Management. Neurotrauma in the Field. Management of Ballistic Face and Neck Trauma in an Austere Setting. Management of Ophthalmic Injuries by the Forward Surgical Team. Resource-Limited Environment Plastic Surgery. Acute Acoustic Trauma and Blast-Related Hearing Loss. Obstetrics in Limited-Resource Settings. Index.