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|  | | Body Trauma - a writer's guide to wounds and injuries
Body Trauma covers the overall organization of the US trauma system, how doctors evaluate and treat trauma victims, as well as special sections on specific injuries such as impalement, bites of all kinds, hypothermia, scuba diving accidents, and more.
The book is organized in sections that reveal the overall approach to trauma care in the US as well as chapters on specific topics. For example, basic concepts in trauma, care in the field, the trauma center, the operating room. Then each major body area is covered: head trauma, neck trauma, thorax trauma, abdominal trauma, extremety trauma. Other chapters cover bites of all types, impalement injuries, traumatic amputations and replantation, burns and frostbite, diiving accidents, assaulted elders and kids, sexual assault and organ donation.
| |  | | Code Blue - a writer's guide to hospitals, including the ER, OR, and ICU
This reference book describes all of the major aspects of a modern hospital needed in writing both fiction and non-fiction.
Chapters include the following topics: origins of the modern hospital, the Emergency Center, admission to the hospital, inside the operating room, the medical staff and personnel, Patient wards and critical care units, medical records, information systems and paging systems, mistakes, complications and accidents, exams, tests and procedures.
Preview the book here:br />
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This book describes the historic origins of minimally invasive surgery, the problems surgeons and their patients now face having to master too many open and laparoscopic procedures and the new potential threats posed to uninformed patients.
span style="font-size: medium;">The modern general surgeon is a dying breed. There is also a grave shortage of surgeons which places added pressure on surgeons to try to do operations with which they may have litlte experience. At a time when the combination of traditional open (incision) operations and 'band-aid' or 'keyhole' laparoscopic operations have exploded in number, you, the patient have no way of knowing the skill level of the particular surgeon to whom you have been refrerred. This book explains how laparosopcic surgery began, as well as the terrible complications that occ | |  | | The Phoenix Prescription
A training surgeon is trapped in a hospital by the Blizzard of 1978 and must decide by himself which trauma victims live and which die.
When the Blizzard of 1978 hits New England, Tim Voight must decide how to manage a terribly injuried and burned young lawyer, Danny Ferrone) and his brain damaged fiancee Ashley Laughton. Danny's father Anthony is a powerful lawyer in Massachusetts and Voight must confront him with his son's horrible survival prospects. Anthony wants Danny transferred from Eastport Medical Center north of Boston to Mass General Hospital. Soon all other surgeons but Voight and his nemesis Bruce Chalmers, a neurosurgoen, have left the hospital for home not realizing they'll never get back as the blizzar |
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