Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Initial Management of Head Injury: A Comprehensive Guide. | Available online http content 12 6 310 Book report Initial Management of Head Injury A Comprehensive Guide Claire Williams and David K Menon Division of Anaesthesia University of Cambridge Box 93 Addenbrooke s Hospital Cambridge CB2 2QQ UK Corresponding author David K Menon dkm13@ Published 7 November 2008 Critical Care 2008 12 310 doi cc7104 This article is online at http content 12 6 310 2008 BioMed Central Ltd Selladurai B Reilly P Initial Management of Head Injury A Comprehensive Guide. McGraw-Hill Medical 2007 315 pages. ISBN-10 0074717758 ISBN-13 978-0074717752. Initial Management of HEAD INJURY A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE This book is aimed at the non-neurosurgeon involved in the immediate care of the head-injured patient. Written by neurosurgeons practicing in Malaysia and Australia it draws heavily on North American and UK guidelines. The stated aim of the book is to provide advice to non-specialist clinicians particularly in developing countries who can use the evidencebased information in the book to develop local protocols. The book contains six parts covering epidemiology basic principles evaluation and diagnosis immediate management definitive management and management of special subsets of head-injured patients. Chapters are consistently arranged with an introduction main body of information summary and a comprehensive list of references. While logical this means there is repetition and referring backwards and forwards within the book. The figures are on the whole simple and clear and illustrate the points that are being made. The layout with multiple sections and subparagraphs and a somewhat arbitrary choice of fonts is sometimes difficult to navigate. The scope of the book extends beyond immediate management but for a book such as this less may be more and future editions might benefit from judicious editing. Given the stated target readership of non-neurosurgeons the detailed technical description of .
