Summary: The Plastic Surgery Survival Guide to Trauma provides comprehensive, practical advice on how to manage plastic surgery emergencies for all non-specialists. Focusing on safe and immediate management, this book provides best practice advice on assessing patients quickly and covers all the commonly encountered injuries.This unique book features clear anatomical illustrations, colour photos of common injuries and practical management diagrams to provide quick and easy reference for confident on-call decision making across plastic surgery.Written by junior plastic surgeons with first hand experience of facing ward emergencies, this is an invaluable and dependable reference guide for all junior doctors, SHOs, orthopaedic and trauma doctors to have at their side.
The essential guide to the safe immediate treatment of plastic surgery patientsFeatures clear, colour anatomical illustrations and photos of common injuriesProvides new plastic surgeons with knowledge at the start of the job, which until now, could be acquired only 'on the job'Tells you exactly what you need to know and do when on the ward, in the ED or taking referralsPractical management diagrams provide quick and easy reference for confident on-call decision making
The essential guide to the safe immediate treatment of plastic surgery patients
Features clear, colour anatomical illustrations and photos of common injuries
Provides new plastic surgeons with knowledge at the start of the job, which until now, could be acquired only 'on the job'
Tells you exactly what you need to know and do when on the ward, in the ED or taking referrals
Practical management diagrams provide quick and easy reference for confident on-call decision making
Table of Contents: Introduction1. Hand trauma- Anatomy of the upper limb- History- Examination- Local anaesthetic blocks- Nail-bed injuries- Mallet finger- Nerve injuries- Tendon injuries- Hand fractures- Crush injuries- Replants and revascularizations- Penetrating foreign bodies- Extravasation injuries- High-pressure injection injuries- Deliberate self-harm- Consent for patients with hand trauma2. Infections- Hand infections- Paronychia- Flexor tendon sheath infections- Bite wounds- Necrotizing fasciitis3. Burns, facial and lower limb trauma- Burns injuries- Facial trauma- Lower limb trauma4. Miscellaneous- Ward problems- Dressings clinic- Minor operationsIndex
Readership: Junior doctors
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