Book excerpt: The Plastic Surgery Survival Guide to Trauma provides comprehensive, practical advice on how to manage plastic surgery emergencies for all non-specialists. Focusing on safe and immediate management, this book provides best practice advice on assessing patients quickly and covers all the commonly encountered injuries. This unique book features clear anatomical illustrations, colour photos of common injuries and practical management diagrams to provide quick and easy reference for confident on-call decision making across plastic surgery. Written by junior plastic surgeons with first hand experience of facing ward emergencies, this is an invaluable and dependable reference guide for all junior doctors, SHOs, orthopaedic and trauma doctors to have at their side.