RT Journal
T1 CUrrent therapy of trauma, 4th ed
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 1999
FD December 1
VO 134
IS 12
SP 1405
OP 1406
DO 
UL http://dx.doi.org/
AB 
This edition is conveniently organized into sections focusing on prehospital care, emergency department care, intensive care unit care, and the care of specific injuries organized by body region. Compared with the previous edition, the fourth features an expanded section on trauma management principles and special problems that includes new chapters on geriatric trauma, trauma rehabilitation, and communicable disease hazards and universal precautions. The "Trauma Systems" section has also been updated with such timely chapters as Trauma and Managed Care, the Economics of Trauma Care, the Role of the Trauma Nurse Coordinator, and a much-improved and broadened focus on trauma quality improvement. Within the "Prehospital Trauma Care" section, some chapters (eg, Victim Extrication, Splinting) have been entirely eliminated and rightly so, as these are probably of little use to the practicing trauma clinician. The Airway Control chapter has also been eliminated from the fourth edition, and while this chapter was perhaps excessively long in the third edition, it probably does deserve more focus and attention than it is given in the current edition.