{"product_id":"trauma-rules-2-isbn-9780727916495","title":"Trauma Rules 2","description":"\u003ci\u003eTrauma Rules 2\u003c\/i\u003e 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:  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e70 easy-to-memorize rules covering the important aspects of trauma care\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eclear, authoritative explanations and instructive illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe three principal stages of trauma management: approach to the patient, initial assessment and resuscitation, and investigation and definitive care\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrauma Rules 2\u003c\/i\u003e is compiled especially for those dealing with the immediate and early management of the severely injured patient.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThe primary directives\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e1 Anxiety provokes memory loss: so learn a system and stick to it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 All 4 one and one for all.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Civilian and military trauma care is different.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreparation\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Any time preparing is time well spent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 If in doubt, call the Trauma Team.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Save yourself before the casualty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Team Leader is always right.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApproach to the patient\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Assume the worst and proceed accordingly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Read the wreckage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Do a frisk or take a risk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Don’t let the obvious distract from the occult.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Trauma Team can only look or listen, not both.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInitial assessment and resuscitation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Tourniquets save lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 If the bleeding is dramatic, use a novel haemostatic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 If you decide to crack the chest, survival’s almost nil at best.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The airway is more important than the cervical spine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 When NEXUS guidelines clear the spine, the spinal board’s a waste of time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 All trauma patients are dying for oxygen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 It is not lack of intubation that kills, it is lack of oxygenation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Do not delay with a burned airway.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Think of cricothyrotomy when all else fails.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Look at the neck TWELVE times in the primary survey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 A hard collar does not protect the cervical spine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 All Trauma surgeons Occasionally Miss Cervical Fractures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 When patients with facial injuries look up at heaven they will soon be there.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Blood on the floor is lost forever more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Short and thick does the trick.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Hidden blood loss will CRAMP your resuscitation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Surgery does not follow resuscitation, it is part of resuscitation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 The stabbed stay stabbed until they reach theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 O Negative is good, but you can have too much of a good thing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 An injury above and below the abdomen implies an injury in the abdomen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 A penetrating wound below the nipple involves the abdomen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Examination of the abdomen is as reliable as flipping a coin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Neurogenic shock is hypovolaemic shock until proved otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Think of the causes of PEA or your patient is for THE CHOP.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Respiratory rate is the most sensitive indicator of deterioration, but nurses record TP not TPR.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Head injury alone does not cause hypotension.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Resuscitate the mother and the baby will look after itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Children are not small adults.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Limb splintage is part of resuscitation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 The Glasgow Coma Scale does not measure prognosis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 A patient has a front, a back, two sides, a top and a bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Put a finger in before putting a tube in.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 The agitated patient will calm down while deteriorating.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 You are not dead until you are death warmed up.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 The golden rule is golden fluid in the golden hour.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 It doesn’t hurt to give analgesia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestigation and definitive care\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 The golden hour belongs to the patient.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 You can assess vision with the eyes closed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 You may read the newspaper, but you cannot read the DPL.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 FAST procedure, quick decision.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54 A tension pneumothorax cannot be diagnosed on a chest X-ray.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 A supine chest X-ray may be worse than no chest X-ray at all.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 Investigation must never impede resuscitation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57 Serial blood gases are the signposts on the road to resuscitation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 Patients are transferred, not their injuries or investigations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59 Never believe a transferring hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60 Better a negative laparotomy than a positive postmortem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61 Go down the middle and be liberal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62 Fix the pelvis to fix the bleeding.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63 Biology is the mother of all fixation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64 The solution to pollution is dilution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65 It doesn’t pay to be complacent about an elderly fracture of the rib.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e66 A missed tertiary survey is a missed injury.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e67 With multiple casualties do the most for the most.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e68 Black is beautiful, and some things are never as black as they seem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e69 Predicting survival is hit and miss with ISS and TRISS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e70 Stop the clot before it stops the patient.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe last rule Death is the only certainty in life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReader’s rules\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eColonel Tim Hodgetts\u003c\/b\u003e Honorary Professor of Emergency Medicine and Trauma, University of Birmingham, UK; Defence Consultant Advisor in Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMajor Lee Turner\u003c\/b\u003e Officer Commanding 2nd Health Support Team, Palmerston North, New Zealand\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eTrauma Rules 2\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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