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Burns—The
Medical and Forensic Model
Alan
Clark
6"
x 9", casebound, 368 pages
2006, Lawyers
and Judges
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Contributors:
Laura Billon, John Brick, Raymond Fish, R. Tom Glass, Paul Janson,
William Reynolds, Crystal Samborski
Table
of Contents
About
the author
This book is essential
for anyone in the legal, law enforcement, and/or health care professions,
involved with burn cases.
The totality of burn injury – personal
and economic – is enormous. From a neighborhood house fire
to the collapse of the Twin Towers, burn injuries have continued
to affect society especially burn victims and their families.
For the medical, forensic and legal professions, burn care continues
to be viewed by many as part science and part myth. The medical
science of burn treatment and rehabilitation has progressed rapidly,
dispelling many of the myths, and the legal issues have changed
as well.
Burns—The Medical and Forensic Model
provides a rapid, concise treatise on the ramifications of burn
injury–from electrical injury to thermal and blast injury.
Forensic considerations are presented consistently throughout
the text, both in the medical and forensic sections. The medical
sections provide essential information on many facets of burn
injury and care, including burn characteristics, evaluation and
treatment including pre hospitalization care, critical care, and
rehabilitation, toxicology and physiology, hidden toxic dangers,
and planning for disasters where there are many people injured,
including building explosions and terrorist attacks. The forensic
sections cover diverse topics such as fire and arson investigation,
identification of burn victims, fire death investigation and advanced
forensic considerations in electrothermal burns.
Topics include:
• Characteristics
of skin burns
• Pre-hospital evaluation and treatment
• Emergency department management
• Critical care for severe burn injuries
• Rehabilitation
• Burn care planning for major disasters including
building explosions and terrorist
attacks
• Fire and arson investigation
• Victim identification
• Fire death investigation
• Interaction of toxicology and physiology
• Hidden toxic dangers
• Advanced forensic considerations in electrothermal
burns
About the Author
Alan
D. Clark, MD began practicing emergency medicine in 1976.
In 1995, convinced that forensic investigation and analysis was
a missing component in the acute evaluation of emergency medical
and trauma victims, Dr. Clark began to study and teach forensic
evaluation for physicians and nurses caring for these patients.
Dr. Clark assisted in medico-legal case evaluations, lectured
at national forensic conferences, and in 1999 was the medical
editor for a monthly forensic continuing medical education audio
series for forensic scientists and physicians. Although retired
from active medical practice, Dr. Clark continues to teach general
forensics and presently researches and lectures on the forensic
implications of environmental neurotoxins in neurodevelopmental
disorders in children.
Table
of Contents
Related books:
Assessing Damages in Injuries and Deaths of Minor
Children
Children
and Injuries
Electrical
Injuries: Engineering, Medical & Legal Aspects
Handbook
of Electrical Injuries and Accidents
Medical Legal Aspects of Pain
and Suffering
Product
Liability
Workplace
Injuries
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