| Shock -- triggered by massive circula-tory failure, the inevitable consequenceof every violent accident -- is an insidiousprocess leading inexorably to death. Foryears doctors watched helpless as their pa-tients slipped away. One man, Dr. RAdams Cowley, decided to study the shockphenomenon, leading at last to thepioneering and fiercely controversialMaryland Institute tor Emergency Medi-cal Services, known to friends and enemiesalike as Shocktrauma. Now, in Shock-trtl~lrt~l, two acclaimed journalists, one aPulitzer Prize winner, tell the fidl story ofhow Cowley tbught against the medicalhierarchy to establish and preserve his ex-perimental unit, the one place the SecretService would take the President if hewere injured. Dramatically and graphi-cally they show how accident victims whoonce would have died on the way to thenearest enlergency room are now flown byhelicopter to a Shocktrauma unit con-stantly prepared to take the most heroicmea~sores. They describe the tremendous |
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