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Critical Trauma Skills and Procedures in the Emergency Department
- Source :
- Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America. 31:291-334
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- Injuries and illness associated with major trauma that require lifesaving procedures, such as surgical airway, chest tube thoracotomy, emergency department thoracotomy, early recognition and treatment of compartment syndrome, and venous cutdown, are seen in the emergency department. The emergency medicine physician must be proficient in recognizing these injuries and their associated complications and be able to provide appropriate management. This article discusses the most common trauma-related procedures in which emergency physicians must be proficient. A description of each procedure is discussed as well as the indications, contraindications, equipment, technique, and potential complications.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Venous cutdown
Abdominal Injuries
Thoracostomy
Wounds, Nonpenetrating
Compartment Syndromes
Tracheostomy
Humans
Medicine
Peritoneal Lavage
Cricothyrotomy
Thoracotomy
Physical Examination
Resuscitative thoracotomy
business.industry
Major trauma
Venous Cutdown
Emergency department
Nasal septal hematoma
medicine.disease
Surgery
Chest tube
Emergency Medicine
Wounds and Injuries
Medical emergency
Emergencies
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 07338627
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9e073ccc19ea3088eb8056d1e7620219