Advanced paediatric life support
Subtitle: the practical approach
By: Advanced Life Support Group ; edited by Martin Samuels ... [et al.].
Contributors: Advanced Life Support Group (Manchester, England)
Edition: 5th [Australian] ed.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780470672969
Subjects: Infant; Methods; Emergency Treatment; Critical Care; Emergencies; Therapy; Child; Wounds and Injuries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why treat children differently?; title: Structured approach to emergency paediatrics; title: Basic life support; title: Advanced support of the airway and ventilation; title: The management of cardiac arrest; title: The structured approach to the seriously ill child; title: The child with breathing difficulties; title: The child in shock; title: The child with an abnormal pulse rate or rhythm; title: The child with a decreased conscious level; title: The convulsing child; title: The structured approach to the seriously injured child; title: The child with chest injury; title: The child with abdominal injury; title: The child with trauma to the head; title: The child with injuries to the extremities or the spine; title: The burned or scalded child; title: The child with an electrical injury or drowning; title: Practical procedures : airway and breathing; title: Practical procedures : circulation; title: Practical procedures : trauma; title: Interpreting trauma X-rays; title: Structured approach to stabilisation and transfer; title: Human factors.