Piet de Boer
Steven J Morgan
Christian van der Werken

The Handbook of Orthopedic Trauma Care is intended for physicians and other healthcare professionals in charge of the immediate management of patients suffering from trauma. This book is designed to provide them with the vital information needed for the immediate assessment and management of these patients in a concise and easily understandable structure.

This handbook gives basic information as to how bone and soft-tissue injuries heal and how medical care can influence this process. Specific injuries are discussed region by region throughout the body and the pathology’s described not only cover fractures and dislocations but also soft-tissue injuries. Each chapter in turn is divided into individual pathology’s and information is given as to the mechanism of the injury, clinical presentation, diagnostics, classification, treatment, duration of injury, and prognosis. The text is complimented by simple illustrations showing key clinical points in the management of trauma
patients.

The Handbook of Orthopedic Trauma Care was developed from an earlier book in Dutch titled ‘Letsels van het steun- en bewegingsapparaat’ by Prof Dr Christian van der Werken; Dr Peter.R.G: Brink; Prof Dr Henk J. Klasen; Dr Sam de Lange; Prof Dr Rene K. Marti; Dr Ad J.G. Nollen; Dr Ernst L.F.B. Raaijmakers; and Dr luuk S. de Vries.that was published in 2000 by Elsevier. Later the rights of that book were transferred by Elsevier to AO Publishing. The content and illustrations have been updated and re-worked by an international group of trauma surgeons to reflect changes in practice.

We hope that this book will provide invaluable support to physicians and other healthcare professionals when faced with emergency situations about which they may not be familiar. We believe that the information presented will allow the healthcare professional to make more rapid and accurate decisions, which in turn will result in a higher standard of care.

(The content of this book is based on a translation of the book "Letsels van het steun- en bewegingsapparaat".)

Piet de Boer, MA FRCS
Director of Education AO Foundation
Stettbachstrasse 6
CH 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland

Published in 2009
softcover
440 pages
160 illustrations

ISBN 9783131468710
E-ISBN 9783131470317

€ 89,99