Trauma Rules 2 Incorporating Military Trauma Rules [Paperback]

Trauma Rules 2 retains its lively and fun presentation to help you remember the essential principles of trauma care and feel confident about handling and treating patients appropriately in the first hours of injury. Thoroughly expanded and updated, and now including military trauma rules, the second edition of this popular pocket book now offers:

• 70 easy-to-memorize rules covering the important aspects of trauma care
• clear, authoritative explanations and instructive illustrations
• the three principal stages of trauma management: approach to the patient, initial assessment and resuscitation, and investigation and definitive care

Trauma Rules 2 is compiled especially for those dealing with the immediate and early management of the severely injured patient.

The primary directives.

1 Anxiety provokes memory loss: so learn a system and stick to it.

2 All 4 one and one for all.

3 Civilian and military trauma care is different.

Preparation.

4 Any time preparing is time well spent.

5 If in doubt, call the Trauma Team.

6 Save yourself before the casualty.

7 The Team Leader is always right.

Approach to the patient.

8 Assume the worst and proceed accordingly.

9 Read the wreckage.

10 Do a frisk or take a risk.

11 Don’t let the obvious distract from the occult.

12 The Trauma Team can only look or listen, not both.

Initial assessment and resuscitation.

13 Tourniquets save lives.

14 If the bleeding is dramatic, use a novel haemostatic.