1. Describe Amir’s injuries Amir’s spleen had ruptured. He had a delayed rupture because he has signs of hemorrhage in his abdominal cavity. Amir also has several broken ribs. One of his broken ribs caused a pneumothorax.…
The City of Waco Fire Department responded to the Twin Peaks incident on May 17, 2015 one of the largest loss of life incidents in the city since the 1957 Tornado. In order to decrease the loss of life from Active Shooter/Mass Casualty Incidents in the future, the fire department should institute a Mass Casualty Alarm assignment and implement the use of tourniquets as part of our medical protocols for exsanguination wounds. Mass Casualty Alarm would send an appropriate amount of first responder personnel to the scene to begin the process of triage, treatment, preparing the patients for transport. This alarm assignment would allow the personnel to responding from the first call for assistance rather than have a piece meal response as we…
The Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia stated that during the Civil War the soldiers that got killed or wounded by a bullet got amputated or removed the bullet then the bandaged the wound. If soldiers were wounded in the chest or abdomen by bullets, there organs were damaged, and doctors wouldn’t treat them. The doctors wouldn’t treat them because they knew that they would get infection and later die. Most soldiers that were treated, died later on their life. They died later on there life because they either got infected or neurological complications would develop.…
W1 (Worker 1, AFSAS Person 1) was carrying a Harm Targeting System Pod/HTS pod (Object 1, AFSAS Object 1) weighing approximately 150 lbs. when he slipped on a pull of water. W1’s right ankle buckled inward causing W1 to collapse to his knees preventing the HTS pod from striking the ground. W1 was taken to an on base medical facility where he was diagnosed with a sprained right ankle and give medical grade pain reliever.…
On March 22, 1988 Aimee was born to Andy and Donna Copeland. She was their second child, and they were blessed to have her. With the first child, they had to undergo months of fertility treatment, and four months after giving birth to their first child Paige, Aimee was conceived. As Aimee was growing up she started a Bible club at age nine and got her first job at the age of fourteen.…
The short story “Blowing up on the Spot” by Kevin Wilson, is made to be magical fiction. The protagonist, Leonard, has a very lonely life in the short story, his little brother Caleb, is a talented swimmer with issues of his own since the passing of his parents. Joan, who is the girl he sees every evening after Leonard returns home from work is his only friend he seems to have, who is always there to talk to him. Leonard learns to find himself and forget the daily struggles of his over bearing life, allowing him to become who he wants to be again. Learning to love what you what you have in life, and to stop living in fear of what is to come.…
Jeana Schreiber Renzi LIT 398 March 22, 2016 SHATTERING GLASS: Affluenza and Narcissistic tendencies THESIS: Shattering Glass by Gail Giles presents the reader with an inside look of how affluenza and narcissistic personality disorder deal with a power dynamic where both enforcer and victim struggle for dominance. Psychoanalytic criticism and theory has two facets: Freudian and Jungian. Both are based on psychological theories by leading psychologists in the field of cause and effect.…
Kodiak aimed his plasma repeater at the attacker, squeezed the trigger, and fired. Everything seemed to move in slow-motion. The bolt of super-heated plasma discharged from the firearm and arced toward the assailant’s head, throwing sparks, and making the walls glow a brilliant purple-white. As the bolt neared the attacker’s face, heat induced blisters formed on his skin and then erupted fluids, which evaporated instantly. As the plasma closed in a foot from the attacker’s face, his skin, eyes, and underlying muscle tissue seared and vaporized, leaving a slack-jawed skull.…
s it Naturalism/Realism? Why? Paragraphs I think is naturalism and realism are both represented in the short story “An Episode of War” by Stephen Curry which is this story takes place 1800s during the American civil war. The setting was cause a campground battlefield where the lieutenant got shot, by relating it could happen in real life to anybody in war.…
Death by Gunshot Wound: A Survey of Past and Present Skeletal Cases Abstract: Homicides and suicides are two manners of death that often involve gunshot wounds. The actual wound varies based on both the type of gun used and the distance from or location of impact the bullet made on the human body. When a bullet impacts bone, it leaves a pattern of injury that allows an anthropologist to evaluate these factors. This paper will focus on the patterns of injuries that might appear from gunshot wounds to the skull.…
1. Damage control principles in critical care The role of Intensive care unit in the poly-trauma context encompasses patient management and organ support; in other words, on-going physiology resuscitation. The goals of critical care are recognition and treatment of complications which ensue as a result of primary injuries (1st hit) as well as prevention, identification and management of iatrogenic injury (2nd hit). Permissive hypotension, hemostatic resuscitation and damage control surgery are the tools used in trauma-bay resuscitation.…
•The new Porton Man weighs only 14Kg •This dummy is based on the data collected from 2500 soldiers. •The Porton Man can mimic the movement of a soldier sighting a weapon •Allows scientists to test the suits designed to protect from biological attacks •Suits are tested by Buckingham-based company i-bodi Technology •Formula One technology used to develop the new mannequin The mannequin has been made for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) in Porton Down, Wiltshire. The "Porton Man" uses state of the art technology and is able to walk, march, run, sit, kneel and even lift its arms as if to sight a weapon just like an infantry soldier. It means new equipment such as chemical and biological suits can be thoroughly…
In his novel Unwind, Neal Shusterman offers a unique perspective on the possible outcome of our society’s disagreement on ethical issues, specifically directed towards the debate on abortion. Shusterman portrays the aftermath of a second civil war, in which the process of unwinding, a term disguising the harsh reality of dismembering children, is born. This form of retroactive abortion proved to be the only measure that would restore peace to the nation, however flawed and drastic it seemed to both the public and the authorities. The process of unwinding presented in the novel is an unjust and unrealistic solution to the problems prevalent in today’s society, serving only to further exacerbate the tension and issues throughout the country;…
This happens to hundreds and thousands of soldiers. One of those soldiers that came back injured was Luke Murphy. He was in Iraq, and while driving, his car was hit by an IED(Improvised Explosive Device). He lost his right leg above the knee, and he was put into a hospital for nearly a year and had to go through 28 surgeries.…
In today’s society a need for rapid advanced medical care and transport outside the hospital setting has become a must. With a large increase in population, the need for more ambulances and more personnel to staff these units are in high demand. These personnel must be highly trained and skilled in many areas to safely and efficiently perform. Today’s paramedics are trained to handle nearly any emergency they may encounter in the field.…