1st Edition

Plastic Surgery for Trauma The Essential Survival Guide

232 Pages 82 Color & 18 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

232 Pages 82 Color & 18 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

232 Pages 82 Color & 18 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Covers the immediate assessment and management of common plastic and reconstructive surgery emergencies and referrals. A companion for junior doctors starting within plastic surgery, the Plastic Surgery for \Trauma provides succinct and clear presentation together with up to date guidelines on the common plastic surgery emergencies. With clear descriptions of difficult trauma... Read more

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

On Training – Gurjinderpal Singh Pahal

1. Hand Assessment

2. Local Anaesthetic Blocks

3. Hand Infections

4. Hand Trauma Soft Tissue

5. Hand Trauma – Fractures and Dislocations

6. Hand and Upper Limb Emergencies

7. Necrotising Fasciitis

8. Lower Limb Trauma

9. Burns

10. Facial Trauma

11. Free Flaps

12. Career Development

References

Index

Biography

Dorian Hobday is a Specialist Registrar at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal London Hospital.

Ted Welman is a Specialist Registrar at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal London Hospital.

Maxim D. Horwitz, MBChB FRCS (Orth) DipHandSurg is a Consultant Hand Surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, UK.

Gurjinderpal Singh Pahal is a Lead Clinician at the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Barts and The London NHS Trust.

Easily portable in one's white coat pocket, this concise treatise will assuage some of the angst experienced when residents are thrown into this new medical venture.

- Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, MD, Bridgeport Hospital