Body Trauma: A Writer's Guide to Wounds and Injuries, Volume 978, Issues 1-933042From 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. |
Contents
Figure 5 The Trauma Room | 47 |
Figure 6 The Operating Room | 53 |
It was in this cave that a man whose head was broken as a flowerpot may be broken although it was all held together by membranes and a skillfully a... | 64 |
Figure 7 Brain Hemorrhage Hematoma | 67 |
Figure 8 Layers of the Scalp | 75 |
Figure 9 Lower and Upper Jaw Fractures | 76 |
Figure 10 Zones of the Neck | 81 |
Figure 11 Chest Trauma | 93 |
Figure 12 Effects of Gunshot Wound to Chest | 97 |
Figure 13 Hollow Organ Trauma | 100 |
Figure 14 Solid Organ Trauma | 101 |
Figure 15 Abdominal CrossSection With | 106 |
Figure 16 Colostomy | 108 |
Figure 17 Prototype Limb and Basic Injury Types | 114 |
Master Injury List For The Arm | 117 |
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abdominal abuse accident acute airway altitude amputated arteries attack battered become belly bites bleeding blood pressure blood vessels blunt blunt trauma body fluid bone brain breathing bruise burns cardiac cardiac tamponade cause cavity character character's chest tube child chronic colostomy coma CT scan damage death decompression decompression sickness diagnosed dislocation diving doctor donation donor elderly emergency fingers Foley catheter forearm frostbite function Glasgow Coma Scale head injury heart hemorrhage hospital impact impalement infection intestine involved kidney kids lacerations ligaments liver loss lung major muscle neck occur operating room organ organ donation organ transplantation oxygen pain percent performed persistent vegetative physical potential problems rape replantation result ribs scalp severe sexual assault shock skin skull fracture someone spinal cord spleen surgery surgical suture swelling symptoms tear tendons tension pneumothorax torn transplant trauma center trauma patient trauma surgeon trauma victim treatment tube veins wound x-ray