Advanced Trauma Care (ATC) Program Reference Manual

by Michael Christie, Maria Elena Sagolili (editor)

Have you been searching for an up to date trauma reference that can help your care of the trauma patient right now, with current science, sample protocols for care, and simple explanations for the current science?

The Advanced Trauma Care (ATC) Program Reference Manual is simple, yet well researched and referenced companion text for students in any level of advanced trauma education, putting the latest science immediately available. The manual covers a broad range of topics scope of the problemDoes the “Golden Hour” Exist? Rapid Assessment Techniques for the Critically Ill Trauma Patient Use of Ultrasound in Trauma Patient Assessment Damage Control Resuscitation in Critical Trauma Patients The Importance of Temperature Control in Trauma Patients When should a Tourniquet be utilized in a Trauma Patient Hemostatic Agents for Hemorrhage Management Wound Packing in Significant Hemorrhage Why Backboard use for Spinal Immobilization Must StopWhen should spinal immobilization be used in trauma patients? Why large bore vascular access is vital in trauma patients Why Normal Saline is NOT the right Crystalloid for Trauma Patients How Blood administration improves trauma patient survival verses crystalloid Why is Prehospital blood administration on pediatric trauma patients important? Advanced Airway Management in Trauma Difficult Airway Assessment Mnemonics The Trauma ABCS Impact on Airway and Ventilation Management Use of Challenge Checklist for Intubation Benefit of Ketamine and Succinylcholine in Trauma Patient Rapid Sequence IntubationChest Trauma Tension Pneumothorax and Hemothorax in Trauma PatientsSimple Thoracotomy verses needle chest decompression for tension pneumothoraxCardiac Contusion and Cardiac Tamponade in Trauma PatientsLidocaine Therapy in Traumatic Cardiac ContusionPericardiocentesis for Cardiac Tamponade in Trauma Abdominal Trauma Obstetrical Trauma Patient ConsiderationsPelvic Trauma Pelvic Wrap for possible Pelvic FractureTraumatic Brain Injury with increasing ICP and decreasing GCS Neuroprotective Effects of Ketamine in TBI Patients Resuscitation in Traumatic Cardiac Arrest can result in positive outcomes This manual can help you establish a grounded baseline for what advanced emergency care in trauma can do for the patient and help you to improve outcomes, in combination with qualitiy in person instruction and simulation, you can improve your perspective and skills in trauma care.

Kindle Edition

Published November 17, 2024

About the author

MICHAEL CHRISTIE is the award-winning author of the novel If I Fall, If I Die, which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Kirkus Prize, was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick, and was on numerous best-of 2015 lists. His linked collection of stories, The Beggar's Garden, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction, and won the Vancouver Book Award. His essays and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Globe & Mail.

Greenwood, his most was released in September 2019. A bestseller in Canada, it has been nominated for numerous awards.

A former carpenter and homeless shelter worker, he divides his time between Victoria, British Columbia, and Galiano Island, where he lives with his wife and two sons in a timber frame house that he built himself.