By Janice Hudson
Publish yr note: First released in 2001
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In Trauma Junkie, readers accompany veteran flight nurse Janice Hudson as she races in line with emergency calls within the San Francisco Bay quarter. Her office is a cramped California surprise Trauma Air Rescue (CALSTAR) helicopter within which clinical group of workers attempt to repair the human carnage wrought via shootings, injuries and normal disasters.
In this new and improved edition, Hudson updates readers on how she and her colleagues have fared for the reason that relocating directly to various clinical roles -- together with her personal conflict with a number of sclerosis, which finally pressured her to renounce the task she loved.
The new Trauma Junkie additionally includes a number of formerly unpublished tales, together with a brand new addition to the lineup of "stupid human tricks" Hudson witnessed and an all-new bankruptcy describing a choice regarding the main heartbreaking of sufferers: a toddler who didn't make it.
Hudson is a ordinary storyteller who conveys the thrill of her days with calstar -- heroic rescues, tragic deaths and the hilarious incidents that made the strain bearable -- and the deep dedication of her crew to maintain sufferers alive within the such a lot perilous situations.
For details on California surprise Trauma Air Rescue Ambulances companies please stopover at www.calstar.org
"Trauma Junkie provides us a view over the flight nurse's shoulder from liftoff until eventually the sufferer is brought to the health center and the agonizing mins in among. those interesting precise tales are most unlikely to place down." -- James M. Betts, MD, leader of division of surgical procedure and Director of Trauma prone, Children's clinic, Oakland
"An fascinating portrayal of emergency nursing." -- Library Journal
"Fast-paced nonfiction that reads like an experience story." -- university Library Journal
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