Contents

#### **Preface XIII**

#### **Section 1 General Principles 1**

Chapter 1 **Essentials in Accident and Emergency Medicine Radiation Injury: Response and Treatment 3** Thomas J. FitzGerald, Maryann Bishop-Jodoin, Killian Dickson, Yuan-Chyuan Lo, Carla Bradford, Linda Ding, Jessica Hiatt, Harry Bushe, Jonathan Saleeby, I-lin Kuo, Elizabeth Bannon, Kenneth Ulin,

David DeSantis, Sherri L. Shul, Bashera Nochomowitz, Julie Trifone, Thomas Quinn, Catherine Whelan, Joshua Taylor, Maureen Britton, Shannon Higgins, Karen Morano, Jean Quigley and Kathleen Briggs


Chapter 8 **Musculoskeletal Injuries: Types and Management Protocols for Emergency Care 167** Ahmad Subhy Alsheikhly and Mazin Subhy Alsheikhly

Preface

cessful management is of paramount importance.

As physicians, we have a constant passion for improving and maintaining patient's care and safety. Our journey in providing safe patient care in an accident and emergency setting has always been, and still is, one of the greatest challenges of health services. On a regular basis, healthcare professionals are facing sudden, unexpected, and potentially life-threatening con‐ ditions. These situations don't give much time for in-depth reflection, but they need thoughtful actions despite the demand for swift decisions. This, as known for most of us, is a time-critical pressure full of uncertainty, stress, high stakes, erratic team process, and or‐ ganizational shortcomings intermingling in an environment where good decisions and suc‐

Acute surgical and medical care is not delivered by one person; instead it is provided through the combined efforts of professionals from various disciplines and specialties coop‐ erating for a patient's sake. Thus, knowledge of successful strategies for improving team

This book focuses on the general concepts, essentials of diagnosis and treatment in addition to basic training principles for accidents and emergency medicine. It presents an effort to collect substantial and up-to-date existing knowledge and skills involving recent develop‐ ment in the acute care settings management. The chapters selected for this book are written by an excellent group of recognized emergency surgeons and physicians from different countries and cultures facilitating a comprehensive and interesting approach to the prob‐ lems of emergency treatment. All of them have their defined set of clinical and human fac‐

There are two ways to read the book; the first way is to follow through the text according to its inner logic, while the second way is to read selected chapters. The book has a modular character in that every chapter stands alone and can be read without knowledge of previous ones. To avoid excessive redundancy, basic concepts are explained once at the start of the

The first part of the book addresses basic concepts and principles needed to understand and manage problems in the emergency department. While the second part follows structural and systematic basic cognitive architecture and essential thinking patterns of diagnosing and treating emergency cases in the acute care units. The last part focuses on the perspec‐

For us, this book has been a team effort. The process of writing has been a challenging yet fruitful time for each of us. We were grateful to learn a great deal from the different perspec‐

performance will create a safer and more effective clinical environment.

tors-related skills that enable them to manage critical situations.

tives that organize performance of healthcare providers.

book and then cross-referenced.

