文档介绍：Paediatric
and
Neonatal
Critical
Care
Transport
Edited by Peter Barry and Andrew Leslie
Paediatric and Neonatal Critical
Care Transport
Paediatric and Neonatal Critical
Care Transport
Edited by
Peter Barry
Consultant Paediatric Intensivist, Children’s Intensive Care Service,
University Hospitals of Leicester and Honorary Senior Lecturer,
University of Leicester
Andrew Leslie
Neonatal Transport Coordinator/Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner,
Nottingham Neonatal Service, City & University Hospitals, Nottingham
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First published in 2003
by BMJ Books, BMA House, Tavistock Square,
London WC1H 9JR
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0 7279 1770 6
Typeset by SIVA Math Setters, Chennai, India
Printed and bound in Spain by Graphycems, Navarra
Contents
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Foreword xi
Part 1: Planning for safe and effective transport 1
1. Principles of safe transport 3
2. Transport physiology 14
3. The ambulance environment 19
4. Equipment and monitoring 25
5. Air transport of critically ill children 36
Part 2: Practical transport management 41
6. Neonatal resuscitation and stabilisation 43
7. Paediatric resuscitation and stabilisation 53
8. Management of the airway and breathing 69
9. Management of the circulation 79
10. Trauma 90
11. Special transport interventions 102
12. What to do when it all goes wrong 108
13. Drugs 112
Appendix 1: Typical retrieval forms 123
Appendix 2: Essential equations and aide-mémoires 134
Selected references and bibliography 135
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