Toxic trauma a basic clinical guide /
This book provides practical guidance for health professionals in the event of having to manage individual or mass chemical casualties as part of their work in a hospital or pre-hospital emergency service. The text considers the nature and basic science of the hazards faced as well as the practical...
| Main Author: | Baker, David J. (Consultant medical toxicologist) |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London :
Springer,
2014.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xix, 208 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Toxic trauma : an historical perspective
- The classification and properties of toxic hazards
- Exposure to toxic hazards
- Responding to chemical releases : essentials of organization and incident management
- The pathophysiology of toxic trauma
- The clinical presentation of toxic trauma : assessment and diagnosis
- The treatment of toxic trauma
- The longer-term consequences of toxic trauma
- Preparing for toxic trauma
- Toxins
- Appendices.