| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 242 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Fundamentals of Frontline Surgery is an easy to read text, written by world class faculty, that provides clinicians with succinct and didactic information about what to do in high intensity, resource limited situations. With global conflicts and humanitarian emergencies on the rise, there has been a dramatic uptake in the number of volunteers for both military and humanitarian operations. This manual aids best practice and fast decision making in the field"-- Provided by publisher |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 04, 2021). |
| Biography |
Mansoor Khan MBBS(Lond) PhD PGDip FRCS(GenSurg) FEBS(GenSurg) FACS AKC is a Consultant Oesophagogastric, Trauma and General as well as Honorary Clinical Professor of Trauma Surgery at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals. He has recently retired from the Royal Navy, at the rank of Surgeon Commander after completing over two decades of military service with distinction. After graduation from King's College London in 2000, he undertook his House Officer training in Plymouth and Portsmouth, followed by three years of military posts. In November 2001 he graduated from Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and was deployed in the Northern Arabian Gulf on military operations upon completion. The remainder of his General Duties saw deployments in the Baltic and North Sea on NATO's Immediate Reaction Force of Minehunters, the 2003 Gulf War and Counter narcotics deployment in the Caribbean. David Nott trained to be a doctor at St Andrews and Manchester University and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1985 and was subsequently awarded an MD for a thesis on Liver Surgery in 1989 from Manchester. He is a full-time NHS surgeon specialising in General, Vascular, Sarcoma and Trauma Surgery at St Marys Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. Alongside a very busy civilian job, working in very busy major teaching hospitals he has for the past 25 years taken unpaid leave from the NHS to volunteer to work for the major aid agencies and has worked in 27 areas of conflict most notably and recently in Syria. He has also worked in areas of natural disasters as in the earthquakes that affected Haiti and Nepal. |
| Contents |
The Resource Limited Environment / Mansoor Khan & David Nott -- Patterns of Injury / Danyal Magnus, Katherine A Brown, Mansoor Khan and William Proud -- Damage Control Resuscitation / Mark Midwinter -- Fluid Administration in Austere Environments / Avi Benov, Roy Nadler, Avishai M Tsur, Ori Yaslowitz, Andrew P Cap, Mark H Yazer, Elon -- Glassberg -- Point of Care Ultrasound / Carlos Augusto M Menegozzo, and Bruno M Pereira -- Thoracic Injury Management / David R King and James V O'Connor -- Junctional & Extremity Vascular Trauma / David S. Kauvar, Mohammed Asiri -- Trauma Laparotomy and Damage Control Laparotomy / Carrie Valdez and David Nott -- Pelvic Trauma / Kristin Hummel and John H Armstrong -- Abdominal Injuries / Viktor Reva and Boris Kessel -- Acute Care Emergency Surgery / Marcelo Ribeiro and Mansoor Khan -- Frontline Consideration for Paediatric Emergency and Trauma Surgery / Nicholas Alexander -- Orthopaedic Injury Management / Jowan Penn Barwell, Christopher Daniel Allison -- Neurotrauma in the Field / Kevin Tsang -- Management of Ballistic Face and Neck Trauma in an Austere Setting / Johno Breeze -- Management of Ophthalmic Injuries by the Forward Surgical Team / Richard J Blanch, Johno Breeze, William G Gensheimer -- Resource Limited Environment Plastic Surgery / Johann A Jeevaratnam, Charles Anton Fries, Dimitrios Kanakapoulos, Paul JH Drake, -- Lorraine Harry -- Acute Acoustic Trauma & Blast Related Hearing Loss / Jameel Muzaffar, Christopher Coulson, Jonathan DE Lee and Linda E Orr -- Obstetrics in Resource Limited Settings / Carlos Pilasi Menichetti and Rebekka Troller |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Surgery.
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Surgery, Military.
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Surgery, Operative.
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Wounds and injuries -- Surgery.
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War.
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Disasters.
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Surgical Procedures, Operative.
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Wounds and Injuries -- surgery.
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Armed Conflicts.
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Disasters.
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Developing Countries.
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Health Resources.
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General Surgery.
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surgery (health care function)
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disasters.
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- Thoracic.
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- Vascular.
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War.
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Disasters.
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Surgery.
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Surgery, Military.
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Surgery, Operative.
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Wounds and injuries -- Surgery.
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| Added Author |
Khan, Mansoor, 1977- editor.
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Nott, David (David M.), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fundamentals of frontline surgery. First edition. Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2021 9780367435592 (DLC) 2020035126 |
| ISBN |
9781003005469 (electronic book) |
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1003005462 (electronic book) |
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9781000341355 (electronic book) |
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1000341356 (electronic book) |
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9781000340419 (electronic book) |
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1000340414 (electronic book) |
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9781000340952 (electronic book ; Mobipocket) |
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1000340953 (electronic book ; Mobipocket) |
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9780367435592 (paperback) |
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9780367437497 (hardcover) |
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