Body trauma : a writer's guide to wounds and injuries /
From murder/mystery to medical fiction, from trauma, mass casualties or blunt trauma this books is a writer's best friend. Body Trauma explains what really happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. You'll lear...
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Lake Forest, Calif. :
Behler Publications,
©2006.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Get it write series.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-237) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a From murder/mystery to medical fiction, from trauma, mass casualties or blunt trauma this books is a writer's best friend. Body Trauma explains what really happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. You'll learn about hospital operating rooms and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring a new realism to your stories and novels by putting your characters to within an inch of their fictional lives. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part I An Overview of Trauma -- Concepts and Terminology in Trauma Care -- Why Do Accidents Occur? -- Emergency Management -- Transfer of Patients -- Levels of Trauma Care -- Destructive Impacts -- Wounds in a Trauma Victim -- Care of the Trauma Victim in the Field -- 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 -- Trauma Center Dynamics of Trauma Care -- Level I Trauma Center -- Trauma Room -- Four First Steps in Trauma Care -- Care of the Trauma Patient in the Operating Room -- Operating Room -- OR Personnel -- How Cases Are Listed: The "Bumping" Scenario -- When Things Go Wrong in the OR -- OR Atmosphere -- PACU: The Recovery Area -- Intensive Care Unit -- Surgical Floor -- Rehabilitation and Going Home -- Part II Specific Traumatic Injuries By Organ System -- Head Trauma: From Concussion to the Persistent Vegetative State -- Diffuse Brain Injury -- Focal Brain Injury -- Scalp Injury -- Facial Injuries -- Lower Jaw Injuries -- Neck and Spinal Cord Injuries: Snapped, Stabbed and Strangled -- Direct Trauma to the Neck -- Indirect Trauma to the Neck (Blunt) -- Treatment of Neck Fractures -- Hangman's Fracture -- Autoerotic Asphyxiation -- Chest Trauma: The Dirty Dozen Maiming Injuries -- Dirty Dozen -- Injuries That May Kill Within Minutes -- Injuries That May Kill Within Hours -- Abdominal Trauma: Beware of Hidden Damage -- Patterns of Intra-Abdominal Injury -- Blunt Trauma to the Abdomen -- Penetrating Trauma to the Abdomen -- Diagnosing a Major Abdominal Injury -- Outcome of Abdominal Injury -- Extremity Trauma: Crunched Arms and Legs -- Upper Extremity -- Lower Extremity -- Part III Unique Traumatic Injuries -- Bites: Animal Assaults -- Dog Bites -- Human Bites -- Snake Bites -- Shark Bites -- Horse Bites -- Stings -- Brown Recluse Spider -- Sea Life "Bites" -- Animal Defenses -- Impalement Injuries and Mutilation: From Fencing to Fences -- Features of an Impalement Injury -- Mutilation and Torture -- Traumatic Amputations and Replantation: Don't Lose the Missing Part! -- How a Finger Is Replanted -- Are Kids' Injuries Different? -- A Warning! -- Burns and Frostbite: The Scars of Temperature Extremes -- Burns -- House Fire Smoke Inhalation -- Electrical Burns -- Lightning -- Environmental Temperature Damage -- Heat Stroke (Sun Stroke) -- Heat Prostration (Heat Exhaustion) -- Frostbite -- Hypothermia -- Other Cold Injuries -- Diving Accidents and Altitude Illness -- 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) -- Assaulted Elders, Battered Women and Injured Kids: The Defenseless -- Battered, Bruised and Abused Kids -- Pediatric Trauma Patient -- Battered Women -- Pregnant Trauma Patient -- Abused Elders -- Elderly Trauma Patient -- Sexual Assault: Unspeakable Trauma -- What is Rape? -- Why Do Men Rape Women? -- Myths About Rape -- Initial Examination of the Victim -- Sexual Assault Against Children -- Sexually Abused Adolescent -- Organ Donations: Who Makes the Ultimate Gift? -- Persistent Vegetative State -- Who Becomes an Organ Donor? -- A Short, Short Course on Transplant Biology -- Process of Obtaining Organs for Donation -- Process of Performing an Organ Transplant -- Transplant Ethics. | |
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