Cases in Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine is a supplementary case book with a self directed approach, designed to complement core texts such as Cameron, or Sanders.The book focuses on the principles of PHC and Retrieval medicine and the continuum of care of the critically injured trauma patient in the field. It is case based and uses real pre-hospital and retrieval situations, presented in question format followed by an extensive discussion highlighting key areas of the specialty. The questions and answers are each 3 - 4 pages in length and most are accompanied by a photo from author archives/real events.The questions have been divided into those with a predominantly pre-hospital theme and those based around retrieval medicine. A third section covers service development and special situations.

Section A - Pre-hospital Medicine1. Scene safety I2. Scene safety II3. Entrapment4. Pre-hospital anaesthesia I5. Pre-hospital anaesthesia II6. Pre-hospital equipment7. Preparing for transport I8. Preparing for transport II9. Polytrauma I10. Polytrauma II11. Polytrauma III12. Polytrauma IV13. Polytrauma V14. Penetrating disease I15. Penetrating disease II16. Diving (hyperbaric) emergencies17. Transfer issues18. Pre-hospital sedation19. Multiple patients I20. Multiple patients II21. Pre-hospital tasking and clinical coordination22. Major incident I23. Major incident IISection B - Retrieval Medicine1. Inter and intra hospital transfers2. Flight physiology3. Retrieval equipment 4. Critical illness and retrieval I5. Critical illness and retrieval II6. Critical illness and retrieval III7. Critical illness and retrieval IV8. Critical illness and retrieval V9. Paediatric retrieval I10. Paediatric retrieval II11. Paediatric retrieval III12. Unexpected inflight emergency during retrieval. 13. Diagnostics in retrieval medicine14. Advanced multi-organ support in transit15. Mental illness16. Envenomation17. End of life decisions in the retrieval environment18. Retrieval tasking and Clinical Coordination Section C - Service development and special circumstances1. Operational safety and Crew Resource Management (CRM) I2. Operational safety and Crew Resource Management (CRM) II3. Military medicine I4. Military medicine II5. Vertical hoist and physical rescue6. Commercial in-flight emergency7. Event medicine8. Ethics and self management9. Clinical Governance in pre-hospital and retrieval medicine10. Commercial repatriationAppendices