tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Emergency Care of the Abused"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Emergency Care of the Abused. | Available online http content 13 1 316 Book report Emergency Care of the Abused Laura Hawryluck University Health Network Toronto General Hospital 585 University Ave Toronto ON Canada M5G 2N2 Corresponding author Laura Hawryluck Published 21 October 2009 Critical Care 2009 13 316 doi cc8119 This article is online at http content 13 5 316 2009 BioMed Central Ltd Fiona E Gallahue Laura D Melville Emergency Care of the Abused. New York Cambridge University Press 2008 368pp. ISBN 978-0-521-86707-8 There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows . There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life misfortune isolation abandonment and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes. Victor Hugo 1802-1885 It requires more courage to suffer than to die. Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 This important book is very unique in providing a clear eyeopening and sobering look at the nature and frequency of abuse and a practical guide for caring for such patients. Topics range from child abuse sexual assault and elder abuse through to forms of abuse much less frequently discussed such as intimate partner violence and victims of torture and human trafficking. And the numbers are staggering and heartbreaking. Many of us have only to close our eyes to see our last patient the victim of elder abuse of intimate partner violence of rape -skeletal from neglect and food deprivation covered in infected bedsores bruised battered and disoriented - as clearly as if we were standing before them now. The feelings of compassion and sorrow of incomprehension that such pain and suffering was inflicted by another of wanting to do more yet being uncertain what we can do to be more effective - the memories are un-erasable. Since many more abused suffer silently each well-organized chapter provides practical guidance in broaching the .