Golden Hour, The Handbook of Advanced Pediatric Life Support (Mobile Medicine Series)

This new edition in the Mobile Medicine series covers today's life-saving approaches to the critically ill or injured child. Find what you need quickly using the step-by-step, outline format that includes numerous algorithms, tables, and figures. After all, time is of the essence when performing emergency techniques such as intraosseous needle insertion, intubation, and cardioversion/defibrillation. Significant updates and revisions make the third edition of this reference a must-have for any physician, resident, nurse, or emergency medical technician.

1. Initial Assessment

2. Airway Management

3. Respiratory Failure

4. Acute Asthma

5. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

6. Shock

7. Cardiovascular Emergencies

8. Electrolyte and Metabolic Disorders

9. Acute Renal Failure

10. Endocrine Emergencies: Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Hypoglycemia, and Thyroid Storm

11. Gastrointestinal Emergencies

12. Liver Failure

13. Hematologic Emergencies

14. Oncologic Emergencies

15. Head and Spinal Cord Trauma

16. Nontraumatic Stupor and Coma

17. Drug Intoxication

18. Status Epilepticus

19. Meningitis and Sepsis

20. Pain Control and Sedation Management

21. Thoracic Trauma

22. Abdominal Trauma

23. General Surgical Emergencies

24. Orthopedic Trauma

25. Ocular Emergencies and Trauma

26. Soft Tissue Injuries

27. Human and Animal Bites and Stings

28. Hypothermia and Hyperthermia

29. Terrorism and Mass Casualty Events

30. Burns

31. Child Abuse

32. Neonatal Emergencies

33. Transportation of the Critically Ill and Injured Child