Families and Faith-based Communities After a Disaster: Successes and Failures in the Wakes of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Katie E. Cherry (ed.)Traumatic Stress and Long-Term Recovery10.1007/978-3-319-18866-9_14 14. Families and Faith-based Communities After a Disaster: Successes and Failures in the Wakes of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Loren D. Marks2  ,…

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Trauma Team Decision-Making

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Fig. 16.1 First principles: Trauma care can be thought of as a coordinated effort to minimize the duration of impaired oxygen delivery and its far-reaching consequences. The major options for…

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Trauma in the Pediatric Patient

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Age (year) HR/min RR/min Newborn 100–180 30–60 0.5 80–160 25–40 1–5 80–130 20–30 6 75–115 18–25 8 70–110 18–25 10 70–110 15–20 12 F 70–110, M 65–105 12–20 14 F…

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Imaging in the Stable Trauma Patient

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Fig. 24.1 Canadian C-spine rule. Abbreviations: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Motor Vehicle Collision (MVC), Emergency Department (ED). (Adapted from Vaillancourt et al. Evaluation of the safety of c-spine clearance by…

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Basic Trauma Ultrasound

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Fig. 21.1 Pericardial view of the FAST examination. Normal examination (a) contrasted with a positive study (b) with anechoic fluid visible within the pericardial space (arrow) When the sonographer cannot…

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