Prehospital Trauma Care ITACCS 2007 torrent

Each of the predominant fields in the care of the injuredâ??anesthesiology, critical
care, emergency medicine, and surgeryâ??has an idiosyncratic bias regarding management
of the trauma patient. Some of these biases are based on traditional teachings, and others
stem from differences reflected in the body of literature accumulated in each specialty.
Often, what is well known and accepted in one specialty must be â??â??rediscoveredâ??â?? independently
by another before becoming part of practice standards (perhaps the most obvious
example is the variety of approaches to management of the difficult airway). For these
reasons, to the extent possible, we have paired contributors from different specialty backgrounds
as author teams, e.g., a surgeon with an anesthesiologist or an emergency medicine
physician with a surgeon.