Diagnostic Imaging in Polytrauma Patients (eBook)

Vittorio Miele has been working at the University Hospital Careggi in Florence since October 2016 as Chairman of both the Emergency Radiology Unit and the Radiology and Laboratory Department. For the previous fourteen years, he served as Chairman of the Department of Emergency Radiology at S. Camillo Hospital in Rome. He is a past President of the Italian College of Emergency Radiology and is currently a Member of the Board of the Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM). He has authored over 300 papers and edited several monographs. Margherita Trinci works at S. Camillo Hospital in Rome in the Department of Emergency Radiology. She is Senior Radiologist in the fields of Emergency Radiology and Pediatric Radiology, she is also a Member of the Board of the Italian College of Pediatric Radiology. She has authored over 50 papers and co-edited several monographs.

Clinical management of polytrauma patients.- Traumatic injuries: mechanisms of lesions.- Head trauma.- Maxillo-facial injuries.- Cervical spine.- Neck vascular lesions.- Airways injuries.- Lung/pleural injuries.- Aortic injuries: diagnostic imaging.- Aortic injuries: interventional radiology.- Thoracic wall and Diaphragm injuries.- Dorsal and lumbar spine injuries.- Hepatic injuries.- Pancreatic injuries.- Splenic injuries.- Intestinal injuries.- Adrenal injuries.- Renal injuries.- Pelvic injuries: bone.- Pelvic injuries: vascular/visceral.- Abdominal trauma: interventional radiology.- The follow-up of patients with thoracic injuries.- The follow-up of patients with abdominal injuries.- Injuries of the limbs: bone lesions.- Injuries of the limbs: vascular lesions.