Primary Management of Polytrauma

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Initial Assessment and Management

   • Dong-Woo Seo

   Pages 1-9

3. Management of Shock

   • Nak-Jun Choi, Suk-Kyung Hong

   Pages 11-18

4. Traumatic Brain Injury

   • Seungjoo Lee

   Pages 19-31

5. Spinal Injury

   • Sang Ryong Jeon, Jin Hoon Park

   Pages 33-62

6. Thoracic Injury

   • Dong Kwan Kim, Geun Dong Lee

   Pages 63-82

7. Abdominal Injury

   • Suk-Kyung Hong

   Pages 83-91

8. Musculoskeletal Injury

   • Ji Wan Kim

   Pages 93-114

9. Soft-Tissue Injury

   • Young Chul Suh, Hyunsuk Peter Suh, Joon Pio Hong

   Pages 115-131

10. The Role of Radiology in Trauma Patients

    • Gil-Sun Hong, Choong Wook Lee

    Pages 133-148

11. Interventional Radiology

    • Jong Woo Kim, Ji Hoon Shin

    Pages 149-171

12. Interhospital Transfer

    • Yooun-Joong Jung

    Pages 173-183

This well-illustrated book describes a practical approach to the primary management of patients who have multiple injuries, or polytrauma, with the aim of providing medical and paramedical personnel with the knowledge required in order to achieve optimal clinical outcomes. The opening chapters explain initial assessment and management and the early diagnosis and treatment of shock. The primary management of injuries to the head, spine, chest, abdomen, musculoskeletal system, and soft tissues is then discussed in detail. The role played by diagnostic and interventional radiology in trauma management is explained, and an individual chapter is devoted to care of the pediatric patient. The book emphasizes the need for systematic assessment of multiple injuries from head to toe and the fact that the mechanisms and severity of injury and the anatomic disruption will differ in each patient. Taking these factors into account, readers will be able to identify and initiate treatment of those injuries likely to cause most harm to the individual patient.

• critical care
• emergency medicine
• polytrauma
• multiple injuries
• prioritizing treatment
• pediatric critical care

• Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

  Suk-Kyung Hong

• Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

  Dong Kwan Kim

• Department of Neurosurgery, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea (Republic of)

  Sang Ryong Jeon

Hong, Suk-Kyung, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Kim, Dong Kwan, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular surgery, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Jeon, Sang Ryong, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

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