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Forensic Medicine: Distant Gunshot Wound

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Melanie Allison, DNP, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC
Executive Manager, Education & Learning, McGraw-Hill Education
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Distant Gunshot Wound. An abrasion collar surrounds the wound defect and is created from the friction of a bullet passing through the skin. All entrance wounds will have an abrasion collar with the exception of entrance wounds to the palms and soles. The lack of soot, seared skin, or gunpowder tattooing confirms this is a “distant” range of fire. (Photo contributor: William S. Smock, MD.)

Read More About Forensic Medicine and Gunshot Wounds in Context:

The Atlas of Emergency Medicine, 4e: Chapter 19. Clinical Forensic Medicine

Read More About Forensic Medicine and Trauma:

Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8e: Chapter 264. Trauma to the Flank and Buttocks

Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2e: Chapter 24. Surgery: Trauma

Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery, 11e: Chapter 7. Trauma





Go to the profile of Melanie Allison, DNP, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC

Melanie Allison, DNP, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC

Executive Manager, Education & Learning, McGraw-Hill Education

Melanie Allison is the Executive Manager of Education & Learning with McGraw Hill. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree and Post-Master’s Certificate in Nursing Education from The Johns Hopkins University. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree, specializing as an acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP), from Vanderbilt University. Melanie has more than 20 years of experience as a registered nurse and nurse practitioner in adult cardiology and advanced lipid management. She is a part-time faculty member at a top school of nursing where she has taught for more than 15 years.

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