Book contents
- The Emergency Medicine Trauma Handbook
- The Emergency Medicine Trauma Handbook
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Disclaimer
- Chapter 1 General Approach to Traumatic Injuries
- Chapter 2 Trauma Airway
- Chapter 3 Transfusion in Trauma
- Chapter 4 Trauma in Pregnancy
- Chapter 5 Pediatric Trauma
- Chapter 6 Geriatric Trauma
- Chapter 7 Head Trauma
- Chapter 8 Facial Trauma
- Chapter 9 Eye Trauma
- Chapter 10 Cervical Spine Trauma
- Chapter 11 Thoracolumbar Trauma
- Chapter 12 Neck Trauma
- Chapter 13 Pulmonary Trauma
- Chapter 14 Cardiac Trauma
- Chapter 15 Abdominal and Flank Trauma
- Chapter 16 Genitourinary Trauma
- Chapter 17 Peripheral Vascular Injury
- Chapter 18 Pelvic Trauma
- Chapter 19 Upper Extremity Trauma
- Chapter 20 Lower Extremity Trauma
- Chapter 21 Burns and Electrical Injuries
- Chapter 22 Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Trauma
- Chapter 23 Commonly Missed Traumatic Injuries
- Index
- References
Chapter 8 - Facial Trauma
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2019
- The Emergency Medicine Trauma Handbook
- The Emergency Medicine Trauma Handbook
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Disclaimer
- Chapter 1 General Approach to Traumatic Injuries
- Chapter 2 Trauma Airway
- Chapter 3 Transfusion in Trauma
- Chapter 4 Trauma in Pregnancy
- Chapter 5 Pediatric Trauma
- Chapter 6 Geriatric Trauma
- Chapter 7 Head Trauma
- Chapter 8 Facial Trauma
- Chapter 9 Eye Trauma
- Chapter 10 Cervical Spine Trauma
- Chapter 11 Thoracolumbar Trauma
- Chapter 12 Neck Trauma
- Chapter 13 Pulmonary Trauma
- Chapter 14 Cardiac Trauma
- Chapter 15 Abdominal and Flank Trauma
- Chapter 16 Genitourinary Trauma
- Chapter 17 Peripheral Vascular Injury
- Chapter 18 Pelvic Trauma
- Chapter 19 Upper Extremity Trauma
- Chapter 20 Lower Extremity Trauma
- Chapter 21 Burns and Electrical Injuries
- Chapter 22 Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Trauma
- Chapter 23 Commonly Missed Traumatic Injuries
- Index
- References
Summary
Facial trauma is a common presentation in the Emergency Department. As the face is vital to both physical appearance and the ability to eat, speak, and perform other important functions, proper management of patients presenting with facial trauma is critical. Initial treatment must focus on life-threatening injuries, but careful attention to long-term function and cosmesis must also be considered. Any patient presenting with facial trauma must also be evaluated for other traumatic injuries, as more than 50% of these patients will have injuries in multiple systems.1 As with any trauma patient, ATLS guidelines should be followed, and the initial evaluation of injuries should begin with management of the airway, breathing, and circulation.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Emergency Medicine Trauma Handbook , pp. 105 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019