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Introduction Acknowledgements Abbreviations and acronyms Contributors 1. Trauma: A global perspective 2. Safety 3. The incident scene 4. Communication in pre-hospital care 5. Mechanism of injury 6. The primary survey 7. Catastrophic haemorrhage 8. Airway management 9. Chest injuries 10. Shock 11. Entrapment and extrication 12. Head injury 13. Spinal injuries 14. Musculoskeletal trauma 15. Analgesia, sedation and emergency anaesthesia 16. The injured child 17. Trauma in pregnancy 18. Trauma in the elderly 19. Burns 20. Firearms, ballistics and gunshot wounds 21. Blast injuries 22. Trauma management in the austere pre-hospital environment 23. Mass casualty situations 24. Retrieval and transport 25. Handover and documentation 26. Law and ethics in pre-hospital care 27. Research and audit in pre-hospital care 28. Training in pre-hospital emergency medicine (PHEM) 29. Trauma systems Annex A Practical procedures in thoracic trauma Annex B Traumatic cardiac arrest Index
