Main description:

This handbook provides a comprehensive, yet succinct guide to the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of various musculoskeletal/extremity disorders in the emergency department. It covers a wide variety of common patient presentations, advanced imaging interpretation, proper anesthetic implementation, and associated extremity reduction/immobilization techniques. Richly illustrated, it assists clinical decision making with high-yield facts, essential figures, and step-by-step procedural instruction. Emergency Orthopedics Handbook is an indispensable resource for all medical professionals that manage emergent orthopedic, musculoskeletal, and local extremity injury care.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Key Motor and Sensory Exam.- Chapter 2. Anesthesia.- Chapter 3. Acute Compartment Syndrome.- Chapter 4. Joint Arthrocentesis.- Chapter 5. Dislocation(s)/Reduction(s).- Chapter 6. Immobilization.- Chapter 7. Distal Radius.- Chapter 8. Wrist.- Chapter 9. The Hand.