Paediatric and Neonatal Critical Care Transport

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Part 1 Planning for safe and effective transport......Page 14
1 Principles of safe transport......Page 16
2 Transport physiology......Page 27
3 The ambulance environment......Page 32
4 Equipment and monitoring......Page 38
5 Air transport of critically ill children......Page 49
Part 2 Practical transport management......Page 54
6 Neonatal resuscitation and stabilisation......Page 56
7 Paediatric resuscitation and stabilisation......Page 66
8 Management of the airway and breathing......Page 82
9 Management of the circulation......Page 92
10 Trauma......Page 103
11 Special transport interventions......Page 115
12 What to do when it all goes wrong......Page 121
13 Drugs......Page 125
Appendix 1:Typical retrieval forms......Page 136
Appendix 2: Essential equations and aide-mémoires......Page 147
Selected references and bibliography......Page 148
Index......Page 152