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The patient’s response to injury Immediately after the traumatic event, physiological reactions a...

Planning an individual operation Operative procedures in a multiply injured patient in a crit ica...

THE MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM In western industrialised countries, trauma accounts for the largest...

THE RESPONSE TO TRAUMA Completion of the initial patient evaluation according to the formula (pa...

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LOCAL PROTOCOLS AND GUIDELINES While the ATLS protocol has become the standard of care for the i...

Learning objectives Become familiar with the timeline concept in trauma • management Understand h...

CONCLUSION Trauma can a ff ect all patient age groups. The severity of injury depends on the type ...

DEFINITION OF TRAUMA Trauma can be defined as an injury to any part of the human body as the resu...

FURTHER READING Department for Transport. Reported road casualties in Great Britain: 2019 annual ...

ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE

solutions Intravenous fluid replacement may be necessary in conditions of gastrointestinal absor...

SUMMARY Appropriate and safe assessment and administration of fluid therapy and nutritional sup...

The effect of the metabolic response to surgery on nutrition The metabolic response to surgery is...

The effect of the metabolic response to surgery on nutrition The metabolic response to surgery is...

PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO NUTRITIONAL IMPAIRMENT Metabolic response to fasting or starvation The...

PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO NUTRITIONAL IMPAIRMENT Metabolic response to fasting or starvation The...

Parenteral nutrition Indications and composition of parenteral nutrition Nutrition may need to be...

NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT The nutritional status of an individual can be assessed by the ABCD of an...

NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS Patients who are considered to be unable to consume enough nutrition via...