Minor Trauma in Children A Pocket Guide

by Davies, Ffion C. W.

• ISBN13: 9780340732045
• ISBN10: 0340732040
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-04
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

Childhood trauma is common and parental anxiety ensures frequent presentations to Emergency Departments, primary care physicians and minor injury units. This handy pocket guide has been designed to enable doctors, nurses and emergency nurse practitioners to manage common minor injuries inchildren appropriately, to know when to ask for help and of equal importance to identify when minor trauma is indicative of a more serious diagnosis. Providing concise information on initial assessment of the child, differential diagnosis and management of a wide range of minor traumas, the text ispresented in an easy-to-read format with numerous lists, key points for rapid reference flagged for the reader with suitable symbols, and explanatory photographs and line diagrams. This book is an essential purchase for residents, nurse practitioners, staff in emergency departments, minor injuriesunits, primary care centers and pediatricians both in hospitals and in the community, to be referred to frequently in any setting that receives children following minor injury or trauma.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Prevention of injury

Pain management

Wounds and soft tissue injuries

Head and facial injuries

Neck and back injuries

Fractures and dislocations-general approach

Injuries of the upper limb

Hand injuries

Injuries of the lower limb

Burns, scalds, chemical and electrical injuries

Bites, stings and allergic reactions

Foreign bodies

Injuries of the external genitalia and anus

Non-accidental injury

Medicolegal and forensic issues

Practical procedures

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