Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Trauma statistics and prevention of injuries -- Mechanism of injury -- Rural trauma care -- Developing a trauma team -- Trauma documentation/trauma scoring -- Trauma registries -- Identifying community resources and preparing the patient for transfer -- Mass casualty and disaster preparedness -- Pre hospital care -- Shock and fluid replacement in trauma -- Hemodynamic monitoring -- Wound management -- Trauma laboratory tests -- Crisis intervention in trauma -- critical incident stress debriefing -- Nursing diagnosis in trauma -- Organ and tissue donation -- The primary trauma survey-ABC -- Head Trauma -- Spinal cord and neck trauma -- Facial,dental,eye,ear and nose trauma -- Chest trauma -- Abdominal and genitourinary trauma -- Limb Trauma -- Vascular trauma -- Burn injuries -- Near-drowning and diving-related injuries -- Pediatric trauma -- Trauma in pregnancy -- Trauma in elderly -- Trauma care of the immunocomprised cancer patient -- Alcohol abuse and the trauma patient.