Body trauma
Body trauma: a writer's guide to wounds and injuries David W. Page
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, c1996.
ISBN: 0898797411
DDC: 617.1
LCC: RD93
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-225) and index.
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