Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine: Prepare for the FRCA

1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Copyright - p. 4 5. Preface - p. 5 6. About the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Journal and this e-book - p. 6 7. Assessments - p. 7 8. Section 1: Basic Principles - p. 8 9. Management of major trauma - p. 9 10. The metabolic and endocrine response to trauma - p. 10 11. Clinical aspects of coagulation and haemorrhage - p. 14 12. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and post-resuscitation care - p. 19 13. Section 2: Brain and Spinal Injuries - p. 22 14. Spinal cord injury - p. 23 15. Traumatic brain injury: initial resuscitation and transfer - p. 27 16. Section 3: Burns - p. 30 17. Critical care management of inhalational injury and severe burns - p. 31 18. Trauma and burns in children - p. 35 19. Section 4: Chest Trauma - p. 41 20. Chest trauma - p. 42 21. Insertion of a chest drain for pneumothorax - p. 46 22. Section 5: Drowning - p. 49 23. Drowning and immersion injury - p. 50 24. Section 6: Management of the Compromised Airway - p. 54 25. Percutaneous tracheostomy and cricothyrotomy techniques - p. 55 26. Airway trauma - p. 60 27. Section 7: Pre-Hospital Anaesthesia and Analgesia - p. 63 28. Pain priorities in pre-hospital care - p. 64 29. Anaesthesia outside the theatre environment - p. 66 30. Anaesthetic priorities in pre-hospital trauma care - p. 69 31. Section 8: Shock - p. 74 32. Shock: causes, initial assessment and investigations - p. 75 33. Hypovolaemia - p. 79 34. Management of shock in trauma - p. 82 35. Intraosseous cannulation in children - p. 85 36. Test Yourself - p. 88 37. MCQs - p. 89