Meet the editors

Dr. Karcioglu graduated from his residency in Dokuz Eylul University Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Turkey, in 1998. He attended the "International Emergency Medicine" Fellowship in PennState University (2005). He is now the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Istanbul Education and Research Hospital.

Since 1995, he has served as a founder and board member of the Emergency Medical Association of Turkey. He has had around 130 articles published in scientific journals, and has contributed in five books as an editor and authored 35 chapters. Recently, he published the books Trauma Surgery and Poisoning in the Modern World with the collaboration of IntechOpen. He is also an instructor of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course.

Dr. Günalp finished her residency in March 2004 at the Hacettepe University School of Medicine. She has been working as a clinical instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ankara, since. She has participated in emergency trauma care courses as an instructor since 2004. She also organized an advanced cardiac life support course in Turkey as a director between 2009 and 2012. At Ankara University

School's Department of Emergency Medicine she prepared a project to the EU called "Improving the Research Potential of Medical School of Ankara University on Trauma Management System" for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Regpot-2008-1. She also participated in this project as project manager. She participated in a core instructor course and became a BLS and ACLS instructor.

Contents

**Section 1**

Triage

**Section 2**

Vascular Trauma

Nail Trauma

*and Juliet A. Adoma*

*by Abdulnasir F.H. Aljazairi*

Treatment Toxicity: Radiation

*by Rebeca Astorga Veganzones*

*Beth Herrick, Jon Glanzman and David Goff*

**Preface III**

Prehospital Management of Trauma and Triage **1**

**Chapter 1 3** Pre-Hospital and Trauma Care to Road Traffic Accident Victims: Experiences

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 29**

Hospital Management of Trauma **43**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 57**

**Chapter 6 75**

*by Thomas J. FitzGerald, Maryann Bishop-Jodoin, Fran Laurie, Matthew Iandoli, Ameer Elaimy, James Shen, Peter Lee, Alexander Lukez, Lakshmi Shanmugham,* 

*by Tudor Ovidiu Popa, Diana Carmen Cimpoesu and Paul Lucian Nedelea*

of Residents Living along Accident-Prone Highways in Ghana *by Enoch F. Sam, David K. Blay, Samuel Antwi, Constance Anaafi* 

Prehospital Emergency Care in Acute Trauma Conditions

*by Krzysztof Szaniewski, Tomasz Byrczek and Tomasz Sikora*

## Contents


Preface

Rates of traumatic incidences have increased throughout the world. Economic burden and healthcare costs are also on the rise, with morbidity and mortality rates heightened unacceptably, especially in the developing countries. This trend can be easily attributed to a recent upsurge in terrorist assaults, warfare in general (including individual arming), disasters, and mass-transportation accidents. In response, healthcare personnel directly in charge of trauma management are pressurized to evaluate, diagnose, treat, and stabilize patients who have been exposed to some type of physical traumatic injury, as well as associated psychological and sociological suffering. Trauma resuscitation should comprise a collaboration of emergency medicine, surgical disciplines, intensive care medicine, and other ancillary services of the healthcare system. Trauma management is not confined to a "technical repair" of the injuries specific to body parts, but encompasses an integrative

approach of resuscitation, restoration of the victim's homeostasis, and physiological and psychological support for the general welfare of both the individual and the community, which comprise the theme of this book. This book is intended to cover important aspects of trauma diagnosis and management of resultant injuries.

**MD, FEMAT Ozgur Karcioglu**

Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Health Sciences,

**MD, FEMAT Müge Günalp Eneyli** Ankara University School of Medicine,

Istanbul Education and Research Hospital,

Professor,

Turkey
