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Monitoring the injured patient

Birmingham School of Anaesthesia, West Midlands Deanery, Birmingham, UK; West Midlands Central Accident Resuscitation Emergency (CARE) Team, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK

Monitoring of the injured patient is important. It includes clinical assessment, following the ABCDE approach, and the use of instruments found from the prehospital to critical care setting.

Correctly used, these provide important information about the patient's current physiological state and response to treatment plus diagnostic and prognostic implications that are useful to the clinician involved in the care of injured patients.

Key Words: monitoring • diagnosis • critical illness • injury • clinical examination • physiology

Trauma, Vol. 8, No. 2, 85-93 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1460408606072761


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