Advanced paediatric life support A practical approach to emergencies

• Corporate Author: Advanced Life Support Group (Manchester, England)
• Other Authors: Samuels, Martin (Editor), Wieteska, Susan (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK John Wiley & Sons Inc 2016
• Edition: SIXTH EDITION
• Subjects: Emergencies; Child; Infant; Emergency Treatment > methods; Critical Care > methods; Wounds and Injuries > therapy
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Advanced Paediatric Life Support is the internationally renowned manual on emergency paediatric care, written to support the course run by the Advanced Life Support Group. Using their structured approach, a tried and tested practical method of treating children during the crucial first few hours of...

Table of Contents:

• Structured approach to emergency paediatrics
• Human factors
• The structured approach to the seriously ill child
• The child with breathing difficulties
• The child in shock
• The child with an abnormal pulse rate or rhythm
• The child with a decreased conscious level
• The convulsing child
• Introduction to the seriously injured child
• The structured approach to the seriously injured child
• The child with chest injury
• The child with abdominal injury
• The child with traumatic brain injury
• The child with injuries to the extremities or the spine
• The burned or scalded child
• The child with an electrical injury or drowning
• Life support
• Basic life support
• Advanced support of the airway and ventilation
• The management of cardiac arrest
• Practical procedures : airway and breathing
• Practical procedures : circulation
• Practical procedures : trauma
• Imaging in trauma
• Structured approach to stabilisation and transfer.