Per-Hospital Paediatric Life Support: A Practical Approach to the Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care of Children; Contents; Working group; Contributors; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Acknowledgements; Contact Details and Further Information; PART I: INTRODUCTION AND PREPARATION; Introduction; Why treat children differently?; Scene management in incidents involving children; Transportation of children; Preparation; PART II: STRUCTURED APPROACH TO RECOGNITION; PART III: RESUSCITATION; Basic life support; Advanced support of the airway and ventilation
The management of cardiac arrestPART IV: THE SERIOUSLY ILL CHILD; The structured approach to the seriously ill child; PART V: THE SERIOUSLY INJURED CHILD; The structured approach to the seriously injured child; PART VI: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC CONDITIONS; Hi-tech kids and parents; PART VII: PRACTICAL PROCEDURES; Procedures: airway and breathing; Procedures: circulation; Fluid management; Procedures: trauma; Pain control; PART VIII:OT
Summary
This practical book written especially for prehospital staff provides all the information needed to deal with children in life threatening situations before arriving at hospital. It is a complementary volume to the best-selling Advanced Paediatric Life Support
