Trauma, emergency surgery and surgical critical care

1. Emergency Nursing World: Excellent comprehensive set of emergency nursing and emergency medicine links.
2. Trauma nursing:
   1. Society of Trauma Nurses trauma links; Internet mailing list
   2. Emergency Nursing Association's Trauma Nursing Core Course, TNCC downloadable course slides and the Course in Advanced Trauma Nursing with course dates and locations
   3. Air and Surface Nurses Association including CFRN course and Transport Nurse Advanced Trauma Course (TNATC)
3. Resuscitation of the critically ill or critically injured patient:
1. Controversies in Trauma Resuscitation, a collection of articles from AACN Clinical Issues
4. Trauma and emergency surgery:
   1. Damage Control Surgery, controlling only the immediately life-threatening injuries at the first operation with a planned return to the Operating Room after correction of hypothermia, acidosis and coagulopathy; includes description of open treatment of the abdomen
   2. Abdominal Compartment Syndrome describes hemodynamic, cardiac, pulmonary, renal and neurologic affects of the abdominal compartment syndrome, its diagnosis and its treatment by the open abdomen technique; from the American Association of Critical Care nurses,
   3. ICU Australia procedure for intra-abdominal pressure monitoring

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