Body Trauma

Name: Body Trauma
Price: 19.19 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: David W. Page
ISBN: 9781933016689

By:	David W. Page
Publisher:	Behler Publications LLC
Print ISBN:	9781933016412
eText ISBN:	9781933016689
Edition:	0
Format:	Reflowable

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Writers need to research in order to make their stories realistic.

Contains graphic explorations of serious bodily damage and how to work backward, deciding how severe a character's wounds should be and then writing the action that causes the pain.

The four steps in trauma care

Details of skull and brain injuries

What the Glasgow Coma Scale is, and why it's important

Specifics of penetrating and blunt neck injuries

The "dirty dozen" dreadful-but survivable-chest injuries

What blunt trauma, blades and bullets do to abdominal organs

Effects of injuries to arms and legs, hands and feet

The facts about bites and stings

What happens in impalement injuries

The truths of abuse of elders, women and children.

How organ donation works

New trauma surgery techniques

Persistent vegetative state

Transplant ethics

Torture and power

Terrorism and mass casualties

Shock states