Practical Management of Head and Neck Injury

Category Winner 2013 - Tertiary Education (Wholly Australian) Student Resource Australian Publishers Association - Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2013

Practical Management of Head and Neck Injury is a unique textbook which comprehensively covers the patient journey from injury to the rehabilitation phase.

It includes diagnosis and management of head and neck injury with additional chapters on prognosis and special conditions including head injury in sport, the elderly, children, pregnant women, penetrating head injury, spine and spinal cord injury and brain death.

It describes an integrated approach to care from all the relevant specialties with Australian, UK and US experts contributing to many chapters.

The book will be of interest to junior doctors, specialist trainees and specialists in emergency medicine, surgery, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, ENT, maxillofacial surgery, neurology, ophthalmology, anaesthesia and intensive care as well as medical students, nurses, paramedics and remote and rural practitioners.

• The complete management of patients with head and neck trauma, from the accident scene through to rehabilitation
• Safe, practical tips to assist the non-neurosurgeon in managing head injuries and preventing secondary brain injury-a major concern for emergency and pre-hospital medical personnel
• All aspects of neck trauma covered, including the management of cervical spine injury
• Detailed discussion of topics such as the classification of brain injury, concussion in sport, head injuries in children and the elderly, penetrating head injuries and the prognosis of head injury
• The operative surgery of head and neck trauma outlined for the non-surgeon
• Contributions from a wide range of specialists, both from Australia and overseas
• Integration of neurosurgery with ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery, maxillofacial surgery, ophthalmology and spinal orthopaedics
• Basic principles of relevant anatomy and pathophysiology, each covered in a separate chapter

"The resource offers an exceptionally clear and elegant artwork program to support the well-organised text, focusing on the management of patients with head and neck trauma-including cervical spine injury- from the time of the accident through to rehabilitation. It presents safe and practical tips to assist non-neurosurgical carers in prevention of secondary brain injury, and includes detailed discussion of toppics covering classification of injuries, operative procedures, and prognosis, and the integration of neurosurgery with other related disciplines." Category Winner 2013 - Tertiary Education (Wholly Australian) Student Resource, Australian Publishers Association – Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2013

"Professor Rosenfeld is a highly respected authority of neurosurgery and neurotrauma care. He masterfully edited this elegant book with 28 contributors mainly from Melbourne, Victoria, but also from USA and UK. It is a credit to his organisation and leadership skills that this multi-authored book has amazing structural consistency throughout its 28 chapters. The editor aimed this book to a broad audience of various medical and surgical specilties, from medical students to specialists, from rural doctors to specialist centres with neurosurgical training programme and also to paramedics, nurses, physician assistants and allied health professionals...In Australasia, all hospitals who are managing injured patients should have this book in their libraries; certainly, I recommend it to my students, trainees and trauma fellows. In conculsion, Professor Jeffery Rosenfeld's book is a didactic, well-illustrated coverage of a very important aspect of trauma care. The book represents the optimal balance between the update of the latest scientific evidence and the practical aspects of the everday trauma care." Zsolt J. Balogh, MD, PhD, FRACS, Regina Balogh, BD, John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. ANZ Journal of Surgery 2013 83 (2013) 393-394.