Advanced paediatric life support : the practical approach /

• Συλλογικό Έργο: Advanced Life Support Group (Manchester, England), Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Samuels, Martin (Martin P.) (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Wieteska, Susan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : BMJ Books, 2011.
• Έκδοση: Fifth edition.
• Θέματα: Pediatric emergencies.; Pediatric intensive care.; Life support systems (Critical care); Emergencies.; Child.; Critical Care > methods.; Emergency Treatment > methods.; Infant.; Wounds and Injuries > therapy.; Electronic books.

This internationally acclaimed bestseller covers the ALSG's three-day course on advanced paediatric life support, with the core sections for the abbreviated one-day course also highlighted. It provides practical guidance for managing children and infants in the life-threatening first golden hou...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Front Matter
• Introduction. Introduction
• Why Treat Children Differently?
• Structured Approach to Emergency Paediatrics
• Life Support. Basic Life Support
• Advanced Support of the Airway and Ventilation
• The Management of Cardiac Arrest
• The Seriously Ill Child. The Structured Approach to the Seriously Ill Child
• The Child with Breathing Difficulties
• The Child in Shock
• The Child with an Abnormal Pulse Rate or Rhythm
• The Child with a Decreased Conscious Level
• The Convulsing Child
• The Seriously Injured Child. The Structured Approach to the Seriously Injured Child
• The Child with Chest Injury
• The Child with Abdominal Injury
• The Child with Trauma to the Head
• The Child with Injuries to the Extremities or the Spine
• The Burned Or Scalded Child
• The Child with an Electrical Injury or Drowning
• Practical Application of APLS. Practical Procedures: Airway and Breathing
• Practical Procedures: Circulation
• Practical Procedures: Trauma
• Interpreting Trauma X-Rays
• Structured Approach to Stabilisation and Transfer
• Human Factors
• Appendices. Appendix A: Acid₆base Balance
• Appendix B: Fluid and Electrolyte Management
• Appendix C: Child Abuse and Neglect
• Appendix D: Prevention of Injury in Children
• Appendix E: When a Child Dies
• Appendix F: Management of Pain in Children
• Appendix G: Triage
• Appendix H: General Approach to Poisoning and Envenomation
• Appendix I: Resuscitation of the Baby at Birth
• Appendix J: Formulary
• Index.
• Machine generated contents note: Clinical Conditions List.
• Working Group.
• Contributors.
• Preface to the Fifth Edition.
• Preface to the First Edition.
• Acknowledgements.
• Contact Details and Further Information.
• PART I: INTRODUCTION.
• Chapter 1 Introduction.
• Chapter 2 Why treat children differently?.
• Chapter 3 Structured approach to emergency paediatrics.
• PART II: LIFE SUPPORT.
• Chapter 4 Basic life support.
• Chapter 5 Advanced support of the airway and ventilation.
• Chapter 6 The management of cardiac arrest.
• PART III: THE SERIOUSLY ILL CHILD.
• Chapter 7 The structured approach to the seriously ill child.
• Chapter 8 The child with breathing difficulties.
• Chapter 9 The child in shock.
• Chapter 10 The child with an abnormal pulse rate or rhythm.
• Chapter 11 The child with a decreased conscious level.
• Chapter 12 The convulsing child.
• PART IV: THE SERIOUSLY INJURED CHILD.
• Chapter 13 The structured approach to the seriously injured child.
• Chapter 14 The child with chest injury.
• Chapter 15 The child with abdominal injury.
• Chapter 16 The child with trauma to the head.
• Chapter 17 The child with injuries to the extremities or the spine.
• Chapter 18 The burned or scalded child.
• Chapter 19 The child with an electrical injury or drowning
• PART V: PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF APLS.
• Chapter 20 Practical procedures
• airway and breathing.
• Chapter 21 Practical procedures
• circulation.
• Chapter 22 Practical procedures
• trauma.
• Chapter 23 Interpreting trauma X-rays.
• Chapter 24 Structured approach to stabilisation and transfer.
• Chapter 25 Human factors.
• PART VI: APPENDICES.
• Appendix A Acid.
• Appendix B Fluid and electrolyte management.
• Appendix C Child abuse.
• Appendix D Prevention of injury in children.
• Appendix E When a child dies.
• Appendix F Management of pain in children.
• Appendix G Triage.
• Appendix H General approach to poisoning and envenomation.
• Appendix I Resuscitation of the baby at birth.
• Appendix J Formulary.
• Index.