This guide provides practical information on the care of patients with blunt injuries that will
be invaluable for emergency personnel trauma surgeons orthopaedic traumatologists and
anesthesiologists. The management of both truncal injuries (head chest abdomen) and fractures
of the extremities the pelvis and the spine is covered in a condensed fashion emphasizing
key information. Care is taken to highlight associated injuries that may alter the decision
making in patients with polytrauma. The new revised edition takes full account of three major
developments of recent years namely the increasing economic pressure on health care systems
including trauma care the changes in trauma systems and related education and the improved
survival of polytrauma patients. In view of the greater recognition of the physical and
psychological long-term sequelae of major injuries post-traumatic stress disorder is discussed
in depth in this new edition.
