Early Care of the Injured Patient
Title | Early Care of the Injured Patient PDF eBook |
Author | American College of Surgeons. Committee on Trauma |
Publisher | Saunders Limited. |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Medical |
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Early Care of the Injured Patient
Title | Early Care of the Injured Patient PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 441 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | |
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Reducing the Burden of Injury
Title | Reducing the Burden of Injury PDF eBook |
Author | Committee on Injury Prevention and Control |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1999-01-04 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309593468 |
Injuries are the leading cause of death and disability among people under age 35 in the United States. Despite great strides in injury prevention over the decades, injuries result in 150,000 deaths, 2.6 million hospitalizations, and 36 million visits to the emergency room each year. Reducing the Burden of Injury describes the cost and magnitude of the injury problem in America and looks critically at the current response by the public and private sectors, including: Data and surveillance needs. Research priorities. Trauma care systems development. Infrastructure support, including training for injury professionals. Firearm safety. Coordination among federal agencies. The authors define the field of injury and establish boundaries for the field regarding intentional injuries. This book highlights the crosscutting nature of the injury field, identifies opportunities to leverage resources and expertise of the numerous parties involved, and discusses issues regarding leadership at the federal level.
TEAM Trauma Evaluation and Management
Title | TEAM Trauma Evaluation and Management PDF eBook |
Author | American College of Surgeons. Committee on Trauma |
Publisher | |
Pages | 123 |
Release | 2009-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781880696453 |
Early Care of the Injured Patient
Title | Early Care of the Injured Patient PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander J. Walt |
Publisher | W.B. Saunders Company |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Medical |
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Basic Emergency Care: Approach to the Acutely Ill and Injured
Title | Basic Emergency Care: Approach to the Acutely Ill and Injured PDF eBook |
Author | World Health Organization |
Publisher | World Health Organization |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2018-12-17 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 924151308X |
Developed by WHO and the International Committee of the Red Cross in collaboration with the International Federation for Emergency Medicine Basic Emergency Care (BEC): Approach to the acutely ill and injured is an open-access training course for frontline healthcare providers who manage acute illness and injury with limited resources. BEC teaches a systematic approach to the initial assessment and management of time-sensitive conditions where early intervention saves lives. It includes modules on: the ABCDE and SAMPLE history approach trauma difficulty in breathing shock and altered mental status. The practical skills section covers the essential time-sensitive interventions for these key acute presentations. The BEC package includes a Participant Workbook and electronic slide decks for each module. BEC integrates the guidance from WHO Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) for children WHO Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children WHO Integrated Management of Pregnancy and Childbirth and the Integrated Management of Adult/Adolescent Illness (IMAI).
A National Trauma Care System
Title | A National Trauma Care System PDF eBook |
Author | National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 531 |
Release | 2016-10-12 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309442850 |
Advances in trauma care have accelerated over the past decade, spurred by the significant burden of injury from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Between 2005 and 2013, the case fatality rate for United States service members injured in Afghanistan decreased by nearly 50 percent, despite an increase in the severity of injury among U.S. troops during the same period of time. But as the war in Afghanistan ends, knowledge and advances in trauma care developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) over the past decade from experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq may be lost. This would have implications for the quality of trauma care both within the DoD and in the civilian setting, where adoption of military advances in trauma care has become increasingly common and necessary to improve the response to multiple civilian casualty events. Intentional steps to codify and harvest the lessons learned within the military's trauma system are needed to ensure a ready military medical force for future combat and to prevent death from survivable injuries in both military and civilian systems. This will require partnership across military and civilian sectors and a sustained commitment from trauma system leaders at all levels to assure that the necessary knowledge and tools are not lost. A National Trauma Care System defines the components of a learning health system necessary to enable continued improvement in trauma care in both the civilian and the military sectors. This report provides recommendations to ensure that lessons learned over the past decade from the military's experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq are sustained and built upon for future combat operations and translated into the U.S. civilian system.