Textbook of Emergency & Trauma Care

This book is a comprehensive guide to emergency and trauma care covering the complete process, from pre-hospital care, rapid and point of care assessment, and triaging, to care of the patient during transfer, and in-hospital care.

Beginning with a general overview of emergency care and resuscitation, the following sections discuss the treatment of emergencies and trauma in different systems of the body. A complete section is dedicated to paediatric emergencies.

The final chapters cover trauma management, toxicology, disaster management, and environmental emergencies such as thermal and chemical burns, and snake bites.

The descriptive text is further enhanced by more than 700 flowcharts, tables, diagrams, clinical photographs, and short notes to assist learning.

Key points

• Comprehensive guide to emergency and trauma care
• Covers management of emergencies in different systems of the body
• Includes section on paediatric emergencies
• Highly illustrated with flowcharts, tables, diagrams, photographs and short notes

• Section 1: Essentials for Emergency Physician
• Section 2: Resuscitation and Critical Care in Emergency
• Section 3: Cardiac Emergencies
• Section 4: Respiratory Emergencies
• Section 5: Neurological Emergencies
• Section 6: Gastrointestinal Emergencies
• Section 7: Renal and Genitourinary Emergencies
• Section 8: Endocrinal Emergencies
• Section 9: Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Section 10: Pediatric Emergencies
• Section 11: Dermatological Emergencies
• Section 12: Rheumatological Emergencies
• Section 14: Trauma
• Section 15: Toxicology
• Section 16: Environmental Emergencies

Devendra Richhariya MBBS MD FICM
Senior Consultant, Department of Emergency and Trauma Care, Medanta—The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana, India