This book describes the underlying mechanisms and pathophysiological processes which relate to various childhood injuries, and brings together experimental and empirical data which bear on the rational management of injury in childhood. It also deals with the wider issues of service organization and rehabilitation. The book describes the commonest causes and types of injury encountered in the young, including trauma, head injury, near drowning and burns. It also deals with essential aspects of effective management of injury in the hospital including trauma scoring, life support and nutritional support. It is intended for trainees and consultants in paediatrics, paediatric surgery, accident and emergency, anaesthesia and intensive care, and it will also serve as a source book for medical and non-medical researchers.

‘Injury in the Young will increase our background knowledge and our confidence … Bohn’s item on near drowning is superb … This review is comprehensive, relevant, informative, and very readable. It explains the physiology and pathology well and describes clinical management in a very useful way … I enjoyed this book tremendously … it is an excellent read’.

Source: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

‘… useful source of information for those with a research interest and departments specialising in this subject.’

Elspeth Reid - FRCA St. Thomas’ Hospital

‘… what is a varied but well written and apposite contribution to the literature … It is a text to be read by trainee and trainer, surgeon, anaesthetist, emergency room doctor and paediatrician, and to be read now.’

Source: The British Journal of Surgery

‘… it contains fascinating data. which underpin the basic science of the subject of plastic surgery and the and the response to stress of the young organism. Anyone who cares for the acutely injured should know of this book …’

P. N. Hall Source: British Journal of Plastic Surgery