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PublisherBehler Publications, LLC

ISBN-101933016418

ISBN-139781933016412

eBay Product ID (ePID)57195247

Product Key Features

Number of Pages254 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBody Trauma : a Writer's Guide to Wounds and Injuries

SubjectWriting Skills, Emergency Medicine, Authorship

Publication Year2006

FeaturesRevised

TypeNot Available

AuthorDavid W. Page

Subject AreaReference, Language Arts & Disciplines, Medical

SeriesGet It Write Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal617.1/002483

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Table Of ContentTable of Contents Introduction Part I: An Overview of Trauma 1 Concepts and Terminology in Trauma Care, 5 Why Do Accidents Occur? Emergency Management Transfer of Patients Levels of Trauma Care Destructive Impacts Wounds in a Trauma Victim 2 Care of the Trauma Victim in the Field, 28 Managing the Airway in the Field A Breath of Life Maintain Circulation Disability: Can the Victim Talk and Move? Expose the Victim Special Problems in the Field Mass Casualty Management 3 The Trauma Center, 41 The Dynamics of Trauma Care The Level I Trauma Center The Trauma Room The Four First Steps in Trauma Care 4 Care of the Trauma Patient in the Operating Room, 50 The Operating Room The OR Personnel How Cases Are Listed: The "Bumping" Scenario When Things Go Wrong in the OR OR Atmosphere PACU: The Recovery Area The Intensive Care Unit The Surgical Floor Rehabilitation and Going Home Part II: Specific Traumatic Injuries By Organ System 5 Head Trauma: From Concussion to the Persistent Vegetative State, 63 Diffuse Brain Injury Focal Brain Injury Scalp Injury Facial Injuries Lower Jaw Injuries 6 Neck and Spinal Cord Injuries: Snapped, Stabbed and Strangled, 77 Direct Trauma to the Neck Indirect Trauma to the Neck (Blunt) The Treatment of Neck Fractures Hangman''s Fracture Autoerotic Asphyxiation 7 Chest Trauma: The Dirty Dozen Maiming Injuries, 87 The Dirty Dozen Injuries That May Kill Within Minutes Injuries That May Kill Within Hours 8 Abdominal Trauma: Beware of Hidden Damage, 98 Patterns of Intra-Abdominal Injury Blunt Trauma to the Abdomen Penetrating Trauma to the Abdomen Diagnosing a Major Abdominal Injury The Outcome of Abdominal Injury 9 Extremity Trauma: Crunched Arms and Legs, 112 The Upper Extremity The Lower Extremity Part III: Unique Traumatic Injuries 10 Bites: Animal Assaults, 128 Dog Bites Human Bites Snake Bites Shark Bites Horse Bites Stings The Brown Recluse Spider Sea Life "Bites" Animal Defenses 11 Impalement Injuries and Mutilation: From Fencing to Fences, 142 Features of an Impalement Injury Mutilation and Torture 12 Traumatic Amputations and Replantation: Don''t Lose the Missing Part! 150 How a Finger Is Replanted Are Kids'' Injuries Different? A Warning! 13 Burns and Frostbite: The Scars of Temperature Extremes, 156 Burns House Fire Smoke Inhalation Electrical Burns Lightning Environmental Temperature Damage Heat Stroke (Sun Stroke) Heat Prostration (Heat Exhaustion) Frostbite Hypothermia Other Cold Injuries 14 Diving Accidents and Altitude Illness, 171 Diving Accidents and Their Consequences Decompression Sickness ("The Bends") Barotrauma Nitrogen Narcosis ("Rapture of the Deep") Altitude Sickness Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE) 15 Assaulted Elders, Battered Women and Injured Kids: The Defenseless, 182 Battered, Bruised and Abused Kids The Pediatric Trauma Patient Battered Women The Pregnant Trauma Patient Abused Elders The Elderly Trauma Patient 16 Sexual Assault: Unspeakable Trauma, 201 What is Rape? Why Do Men Rape Women? Myths About Rape The Initial Examination of the Victim Sexual Assault Against Children The Sexually Abused Adolescent 17 Organ Donations: Who Makes the Ultimate Gift?, 213 The Persistent Vegetative State Who Becomes an Organ Donor? A Short, Short Course on Transplant Biology The Process of Obtaining Organs for Donation The Process of Performing an Organ Transplant Transplant Ethics Appendix I, 229 Appendix II, 233 Bibliography, 234 Glossary, 237 Index, 239

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SynopsisFrom murder/mystery to medical fiction - from trauma, mass casualties, or blunt trauma, surgeon and trauma expert Dr. David W. Page is a writer's best friend. Whether a writer's fictional character is a detective investigating a crime or a doctor racing down the hallways toward an emergency - it's a given that someone is hurt. Credible storytelling is the key to plausibility, and Dr. Page offers the perfect prescription. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Learn about what goes on in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts and bring a new realism to stories and novels. Here you'll find graphic explorations of serious bodily damage. You'll be able to work backward, deciding how severe a character's wounds should be and then writing the action that causes the pain. You'll put your characters in harm's way and mistreat them-believ, From murder/mystery to medical fiction - from trauma to mass casualties, Dr. David Page is a writer's best friend., Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.