Body Trauma
A Writer¿s Guide to Wounds and Injuries
Published on 15. October 2006
254 pages
978-1-933016-68-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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DAVID W. PAGE, M.D. is Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of Student Programs in Surgery, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA. He is a general surgeon with experience in trauma care, critical care medicine and has won numerous teaching awards from Tufts medical students and Baystate surgical residents, including Outstanding Teaching in the Clinical Sciences Award for 2004. Dr. Page has an MFA degree from the University of Southern Maine and co-wrote Code Blue -- a writer's guide to hospitals, including the ER, OR, and ICU with Keith Wilson, MD.
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: An Overview of Trauma
- 1. 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
- 2. 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
- 3. The Trauma Center
- 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 in the Operating Room
- 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
- Diffuse Brain Injury
- Focal Brain Injury
- Scalp Injury
- Facial Injuries
- Lower Jaw Injuries
- 6. Neck and Spinal Cord Injuries: Snapped, Stabbed and Strangled
- Direct Trauma to the Neck
- Indirect Trauma to the Neck
- The Treatment of Neck Fractures
- Hangman's Fracture
- Autoerotic Asphyxiation
- 7. Chest Trauma: The Dirty Dozen Maiming Injuries
- The Dirty Dozen
- Injuries That May Kill Within Minutes
- Injuries That May Kill Within Hours
- 8. Abdominal Trauma: Beware of Hidden Damage
- Pattern of Intra-Abdominal Injury
- Blunt Trauma to the Abdomen
- Penetrating Trauma to the Abdomen
- The Outcome of Abdominal Injury
- Damage Control Exploratory Surgery
- The Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
- 9. Extremity Trauma: Crunched Arms and Legs
- The Upper Extremity
- The Lower Extremity
- Part III: Unique Traumatic Injuries
- 10. Bites: Animal Assaults
- Dog Bites
- Human Bites
- Snake Bites
- Shark Bites
- Horse Bites
- Stings
- Spider Bites
- Sea Life "Bites"
- Animal Defenses
- 11. Impalement Injuries and Mutilation: From Fencing to Fences
- Features of an Impalement Injury
- Mutilation and Torture
- Torture and Power
- 12. Traumatic Amputations and Replantation: Don't Loste the Missing Part!
- How A Finger Is Replanted
- Are Kids' Injuries Different?
- A Warning!
- 13. Burns and Frostbite: The Scars of Temperature Extremes
- Common Ground
- 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
- Diving Accidents and Their Consequences
- 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
- Battered, Bruised and Abused Kids
- Battered Women
- The Pregnant Trauma Patient
- Abused Elders
- The Elderly Trauma Patient
- 16. Sexual Assault: Unspeakable Trauma
- 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 Donation: Who Makes the Ultimate Gift?
- The Persistent Vegetative State
- Who Becomes an Organ Donor?
- The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA)
- A Short, Short Course on Transplant Biology
- The Process of Obtaining Organs for Donation
- The Process of Performing an Organ Transplant
- Appendix I. A Typical Trauma Case
- Appendix II. Trauma Ethics Rounds
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
