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The trauma manual
Injury in the Aging Editors: M.A. Horan and R.A. Little, University of Manchester, England Cambridge University Press, 1998, $110 Bibliographic Data: ISBN: O-521 -62160-7. Country of origin: United Kingdom. Descriptive Notes: The book contains black and white illustrations.
Reviewer’s
Expert
Opinion
Description: This series of essays addresses the theme of injury in older people. Purpose: Its purpose is to review what is known about injury from various etiologies in older people and how the changes of aging alter the response to traumatic injury in older people. Audience: The audience for this book includes geriatricians, emergency medicine physicians, trauma surgeons, general surgeons, orthopedists, and primary care physicians. Features: Some chapters include beautiful photographs of pathologic material related to trauma in older people. Other graphs and tables are well displayed.
Twenty-three
chapters,
365 pages, hard cover
Assessment: This book, written by U.K. physicians, gives a particularly English view of trauma in older people, especially in regard to home hypothermia and medical decision-making in incompetent individuals. The chapters are mostly bibliographic essays summarizing the extant literature. Readers looking for an exposition of how to care for injured elderly patients will not find it in this book. Sadly lacking is a discussion of nutrition vis-a-visfluid management and recovery from injury in the elderly. Reviewer: David 0. Staats, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
The Trauma Manual Editors: Andrew B. Peitzman, MD, FACS, and Donald M. Yealey, MD, FACEP, University of Pittsburgh; Michael Rhodes, MD, FACS, Thomas Jefferson University: C. William Schwab, MD, FACS, University of Pennsylvania Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1998, $37.95 Bibliographic Data: ISBN: 0316698342. NLM: WO 39 T777. LCCN: 97-29878. LC: RD93.T6895. Country of origin: United States. Series Title: Little, Brown Spiral Manual Series. Appendixes included, 51 chapters, 599 pages, spiral bound Descriptive Notes: The book contains black and white illustrations.
Reviewer’s
Expert
Opinion
Description: This soft-bound spiral manual is devoted to care of the injured patient. Purpose: An outline approach is provided to the management of acute injury using guidelines developed in the advanced trauma life support course of the American College of Surgeons. This manual goes beyond these guidelines, however, discussing such issues as documentation, prevention, and rehabilitation. Audience: Students and junior residents on the trauma service will benefit from this manual. Editors and authors are from academic trauma centers in Pennsylvania, particularly the universities of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. Features: Chapters presented in outline form are laid out in chronology of the care of injury. Such issues as shock, prehos pital care, and air medical transport are presented, followed by emergency department resuscitation, airway management, and organ-specific pattern of injury. Later chapters include ICU care priorities, pain management, nutrition, and considerations
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specific to pediatric and geriatric injury. Concluding chapters and detailed appendixes include discussion of deep venous thrombosis, injury epidemiology, ethical and legal issues, reha bilitation, and organ donation. Chapters are easy to read and contain black and white illustrations that reproduce well. A limited reference list is provided with each chapter. References date to within 2 to 3 years of publication. The table of contents lists chapter, title, and contributors; a detailed index includes citations for tables and figures. Assessment: This book is an excellent introduction to the workings of a trauma system and the details of injury manage ment. Although directed at junior practitioners, professors may benefit from the data assembled for easy access. I found the discussion of documentation particularly important and would suggest expanding the text by including common diagnostic and procedure codes among the appendixes. Reviewer: David J. Dries, MSE, MD, University of Michigan Medical School
January-March
1999
18:l
Air Medical Journal
Reviewer’s
Expert
Opinion
Description: This series of essays addresses the theme of injury in older people. Purpose: Its purpose is to review what is known about injury from various etiologies in older people and how the changes of aging alter the response to traumatic injury in older people. Audience: The audience for this book includes geriatricians, emergency medicine physicians, trauma surgeons, general surgeons, orthopedists, and primary care physicians. Features: Some chapters include beautiful photographs of pathologic material related to trauma in older people. Other graphs and tables are well displayed.
Twenty-three
chapters,
365 pages, hard cover
Assessment: This book, written by U.K. physicians, gives a particularly English view of trauma in older people, especially in regard to home hypothermia and medical decision-making in incompetent individuals. The chapters are mostly bibliographic essays summarizing the extant literature. Readers looking for an exposition of how to care for injured elderly patients will not find it in this book. Sadly lacking is a discussion of nutrition vis-a-visfluid management and recovery from injury in the elderly. Reviewer: David 0. Staats, MD, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
The Trauma Manual Editors: Andrew B. Peitzman, MD, FACS, and Donald M. Yealey, MD, FACEP, University of Pittsburgh; Michael Rhodes, MD, FACS, Thomas Jefferson University: C. William Schwab, MD, FACS, University of Pennsylvania Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1998, $37.95 Bibliographic Data: ISBN: 0316698342. NLM: WO 39 T777. LCCN: 97-29878. LC: RD93.T6895. Country of origin: United States. Series Title: Little, Brown Spiral Manual Series. Appendixes included, 51 chapters, 599 pages, spiral bound Descriptive Notes: The book contains black and white illustrations.
Reviewer’s
Expert
Opinion
Description: This soft-bound spiral manual is devoted to care of the injured patient. Purpose: An outline approach is provided to the management of acute injury using guidelines developed in the advanced trauma life support course of the American College of Surgeons. This manual goes beyond these guidelines, however, discussing such issues as documentation, prevention, and rehabilitation. Audience: Students and junior residents on the trauma service will benefit from this manual. Editors and authors are from academic trauma centers in Pennsylvania, particularly the universities of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. Features: Chapters presented in outline form are laid out in chronology of the care of injury. Such issues as shock, prehos pital care, and air medical transport are presented, followed by emergency department resuscitation, airway management, and organ-specific pattern of injury. Later chapters include ICU care priorities, pain management, nutrition, and considerations
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specific to pediatric and geriatric injury. Concluding chapters and detailed appendixes include discussion of deep venous thrombosis, injury epidemiology, ethical and legal issues, reha bilitation, and organ donation. Chapters are easy to read and contain black and white illustrations that reproduce well. A limited reference list is provided with each chapter. References date to within 2 to 3 years of publication. The table of contents lists chapter, title, and contributors; a detailed index includes citations for tables and figures. Assessment: This book is an excellent introduction to the workings of a trauma system and the details of injury manage ment. Although directed at junior practitioners, professors may benefit from the data assembled for easy access. I found the discussion of documentation particularly important and would suggest expanding the text by including common diagnostic and procedure codes among the appendixes. Reviewer: David J. Dries, MSE, MD, University of Michigan Medical School
January-March
1999
18:l
Air Medical Journal