Main description:

This book provides a practical working guide to the most important peri-operative issues and medical problems found on the day-to-day ward management of trauma patients. Although aimed at medical students, orthopedic and surgical residents and foundation year pre-registration house officers, the style and content of the book will also appeal to senior medical students and senior house officers, and junior doctors in the acute specialties.

Contents:

The Orthopedic Ward, Orthopedic Patients, and Procedures.- Patients and Procedures.- The Ward Team.- The Ward Round.- Patient Management.- Preparing Patients for Operation.- Intravenous Fluids and Electrolytes.- Analgesia.- Dressings, Drains, Plasters, and Tubes.- Special Patient Groups.- The Patient With a Fractured Neck of Femur.- Rheumatoid Arthritis.- Hemophilia.- Problems and Complications: The Patient.- Infection and Immunocompromise.- Compartment Syndrome.- Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism.- Fat Embolism.- The Confused Patient.- The Ill Patient and Medical Emergencies.- Problems With Blood Transfusion.- Problems and Complications: The Doctor.- Medical Errors.- When Treatment Stops.- Do Not Resuscitate Orders, Death Certification, and the Coroner.