When your fiction calls for a character to get hurt and live to tell about it, this book is the prescription. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent. You'll learn about agonizing injuries and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Use these facts and bring a new realism to your stories and novels. Dr. David W. Page, a surgeon and trauma expert, takes you in close to reveal 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. 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 - believably - to within an inch of their fictional lives.

Body Trauma: A Writer's Guide to Wounds and Injuries (Howdunit Series)

Arts & Photography

Page, David W.

History & Criticism

Writers' Digest Books

Viewing the hospital from a writer's perspective, Drs. Wilson and Page provide the information you need, keying on the sights, sounds and smells associated with every medical department. You'll hear the rapid dialogue of ER staff trying to save a gunshot victim. You'll feel what it's like to be a doctor prepping for surgery. You'll witness the painstaking measures taken to save a patient in ICU, and much more. Information is broken down into easy-to-reference chapters, featuring bulleted charts of medical jargon, terminology and facts.

Code Blue: A Writer's Guide to Hospitals, Including the ER, OR and ICU (Behind the Scenes)

Reference

Wilson, Keith D.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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.

Body Trauma: A Writer s Guide to Wounds and Injuries (Get It Write)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Behler Publications

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