This book takes a unique approach to the subject of trauma and war surgery. This ground-breaking work sets a standard reference for care under difficult conditions, with the lack of medical facilities and proper staff. It promotes a concept of forward life support and surgery, which draws on the resources and knowledge of the local community, which improvises with local equipment and materials, and also includes a complete guide to post-operative, high-energy nutrition based on local foodstuffs and food-processing traditions.
The second revised edition contains updates on the injuries caused by modern weaponry, on post-injury physiology, and on damage control surgery.
Publisher: TWN
ISBN: 978-983-2729-21-1
Year: 2011 No. of pages: 880
Authors:
Hans Husum
is a general surgeon with thirty years of experience with popular movements in the war zones and mine fields of the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Southeast Asia. He is a founding member of Trauma Care Foundation, an institution developing teaching aids in trauma care for low-resource communities. Hans Husum heads Tromsoe Mine Victim Resource Center, an action-research center at the University Hospital of North Norway and has published extensively on trauma systems in war with colleagues in the South.
Erik Fosse
is specialist in general and cardiothoracic surgery. He is professor of surgery at the University of Oslo and director of the Interventional Centre, which is a research and development department at Oslo University Hospital. Erik Fosse is the director of NORWAC, a humanitarian medical NGO working mainly in The Middle East and the Balkans. He worked as a surgeon with the Afghan resistance
in 1986 and in Albania during the Kosovo war in 1999. Since 1979 he has worked during several wars in Lebanon and Palestine with Palestinian organizations, including the war in Gaza in January 2009. Erik Fosse is consultant in war surgery with the Norwegian Military Medical Services.
Swee Chai Ang
is consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at St Bartholomew and the Royal London Hospital, England. She and her team treated many of the major casualties of the 2005 7/7 bombings in London. Since 1982, she has worked on multiple occasions as orthopaedic surgeon to the Palestinians in the Lebanon and Gaza, with the
Palestine Red Crescent Society, the United Nations and WHO. She is co-founder and patron of the British Charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians. She has also been on several relief missions to the Pakistan Kashmir earthquake. Her publications include papers on acute care of the war wounded. She penned her survivor eyewitness account of the 1982 Beirut Sabra Shatilla massacre in her book “From Beirut to Jerusalem”. The late Yasser Arafat awarded her the Star of Palestine for her work with his people.
Contents
How to use the book
Foreword to the First Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Authors and contributors
Section 1: Trauma systems in war
1. The chain of survival
2. Trauma care training
3. Material input
4. Trauma severity scoring and quality control
Section 2: Trauma care in war
5. The weapon
6. The injury
7. Trauma life support in war
8. Life-saving surgery
9. Triage – sorting casualties
Section 3: Basics of war surgery
10. Surgical technique
11. Fasciotomy, debridement and drainage
12. Injuries to arteries and veins
13. Fractures and mangled limbs
14. Joint injuries
15. Tendon injuries
16. Nerve injuries
17. Amputations
18. Wound closure
19. Injuries to children and old people
20. Emergency blood transfusion
21. Hypothermia and hyperthermia
22. Diseases interfering with surgery
Section 4: War surgery – specific injuries
23. Injury to the head and neck
24. Injury to the spine
25. Injury to the face
26. Injury to the eye
27. Injury to the chest
28. Abdominal injuries in general
29. Injury to the intestine
30. Injury to the stomach and duo
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