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Elsevier Health Sciences Scientific Foundations Of Trauma by Dudley Cape
It is relevant to all surgeons who, increasingly, need to understand the different injury processes and their implications for subsequent treatment and management. It will have special value for those undertaking research into injury prevention.
Table of contents
Part 1: MECHANISMS OF INJURY - PENETRATING INJURY BY PROJECTILES - Wound Ballistics Research before 1945; Projectiles: Types and aerodynamics; Projectile - Material Interactions: Simulants; Projectile - Material Interactions: Soft Tissue and Bone; Penetrating Head Injury; Penetrating Injury of Bones; Penetrating Injury of Blood Vessels; Protection against Penetrating Injury. NON-PENETRATING BLUNT IMPACTS - Non-penetrating Injuries of the Head; Non-penetrating Injury of the Thorax; Non-penetrating Injury of the Abdomen; Epidemiology of Road Traffic Accidents; Road Traffic Accidents: Injury criteria; Aviation: Injuries and Protections. BLAST OVERPRESSURE INJURY - Physics of Detonations and Blast Waves; Blast Biology; Blast Injury of the Lung; Blast Injury of the Ear; Terrorist Bombings; Military Explosions; Protection against Blast Injury. OTHER TYPES OF INJURY - Crush Injury; Barotrauma; Acceleration and Vibration Induced Injury; Injury from Falls; Injury from Bites. BURNS - Heat Transfer to Tissues; Interaction of Heat with Tissues; Management of Burn Injury. CHEMICAL INJURIES - Mustard Gas Injuries: Skin. Part 2: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF INJURY - Assessment of Severity of Injury. LOCAL RESPONSES - The Acute Inflammatory Response; Macrophage-Endothelial Cell Interactions; Bacterial Toxins in Trauma and Sepsis; Eicosanoids, PAF and Nitric Oxides as Mediators of Shock; Opioids: Physiology and Therapeutics; Mechanisms of Cellular damage; The Wound - Organ; Wound Healing. GENERAL RESPONSES - Cardiovascular Responses to Injury; Cardiac Responses to Injury; The Response of the Splanchnic Circulation of Injury; Biochemical Consequences of Lung Injury; The Pulmonary Circulation and Trauma; The Response of the Endocrine System to Injury. BIOCHEMICAL RESPONSES TO INJURY - Effects of Injury on Metabolic Rate; Substrate Metabolism in Injury; Protein Metabolism in Injury; Mechanisms of Infection.