"The Oxford Handbook of Trauma and Orthopaedics (2nd edition) equips all healthcare professionals with an interest in the field with a pragmatic and evidence-based overview of key topics relevant for clinical practice. This comprehensively refreshed second edition builds upon the foundations of the original text to provide readers with up-to-date and novel content that is relevant for the management of trauma and elective patients. It presents an overarching view of the breadth of adult and paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedics, in the established and hugely popular Oxford Handbook concise and user-friendly format, making it ideal for use to support patient care across a range of environments including outpatient clinics, the emergency department and acute care centres, the operating theatre, and for self-study in preparation for examinations"--

This handbook provides easily accessible information on trauma and orthopaedics, clearly presenting the salient features of a range of conditions and their treatment, and enabling junior doctors and students to confidently apply the knowledge to clinical activities