2 extra copies of "Save Lives, Save Limbs" available

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These are left over from a group buy. Cost is $42 + S&H which is less than you could order it direct for. Very good book. I am not offering these, just passing on the availability. PM me if interested and I'll give you the e-mail address to contact.

This is not your average trauma care book!

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/limb.htm

The handbook's exceptional qualities are due to its radical departure from common Western medical orthodoxies:

* It is not true that only qualified staff can give qualified life support. Victims start dying at the time of injury. Immediate first aid by lay first responders can save lives.

* It is not true that non-graduate rural folk are too "ignorant" to staff and manage health networks-traning programs by themselves. With training at "village universities", they are able to set up sustainable chains of survival for trauma victims of mines and other medical emergencies.

* It is not true that indigenous resources and knowledge, locally adapted equipment and training aids are inferior to Western standards and imports. On the contrary - not only are they better - there is often no other way to build sustainable capacities.

SLSL is the result of 10 years' teamwork experience of the authors and local health workers in Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Kurdistan and Angola who have treated thousands of trauma victims and set up numerous "chains of survival" under all kinds of adverse, even harrowing, conditions.

This guidebook is useful for mine medics and first aid trainees; teachers training health workers, organizers of medical/health services or mine-assistance programs; and A&E hospital staff.

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Contents

Foreward by Rae McGrath
Contributors
About the Authors, our methods, and results
How to use the book

SECTION 1: The body's response to injury
Oxygen is life - oxygen starvation is death
Fragmentation mines
How Fragmentation mines injure
Life support: airway and breathing, blood circulation
Ban the tourniquet!
Prevent infection - support the body's defences
Sum up: early life support is good life support

SECTION 2: Simple life support
Prepare yourself! Work together!
Danger! The victim is inside a minefield
How to examine a victim
Open the airway
Support the breathing
Stop the bleeding
Intravenous cannulation
Replacing blood loss: volume treatment
Warm the victim
Victim's position
Drugs for pain
Comfort & encouragement
Prevent infection. Antibiotics
Victims need food
Not awake and no breathing
Mass casualties
The injured child
Burn victims
Problems caused by diseases
Transport to hospital
Medical documentation
Take care of yourself and your helpers

SECTION 3: Advanced life support
Endotracheal intubation
Airway cut-down
How to place chest tube drain
Damage control laparatomy
Venous cut-down
Limb fasciotomy - why and when? How?
Ketamine anesthesia
Disinfection

SECTION 4: Case stories from real life
He drowned in the river
Grandma lost her foot
Stopping limb bleeding
Head injury in mine clearer
Abdominal bleeding
Severe injuries, no hospital
Improvised chest tube
Angola: bus hits an anti-tank mine

SECTION 5: The chain of survival
Osman, a life saver in Kurdistan
What is the chain of survival?
Mapping the mine injuries
Setting up a local plan
Why a Village University?
How much does it cost?
Funding the chain of survival

SECTION 6: The Village University
How to select students
Setting up the University
Advise to the teacher
1st course: simple life support
2nd/3rd course: Advanced life support
Anesthesia for animals
Animal case stories
Drinks from local foodstuffs
Medical kits
The medic as teacher
Village course for first helpers
Is the treatment good enough?
Certification

Some practical advice:
Drugs & doses
IV fluids for volume treatment
Malnutrition & feeding
Measuring blood pressure
Sutures & surgical knots
Diameter of cannulas, catheters & tubes
If you don't have what you need - use what you have
Severity score for child victims
Analyse your results
Applying for funding
Teaching aids
Books for further studies
Useful contacts

Drawings of the body
Glossary
Index
Injury and anesthesia charts for tear out
Pocket folder



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