Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical Services

A new field of medicine has emerged as a result of the global proliferation of terrorism. Terror medicine is related to emergency and disaster medicine but focuses on the constellation of medical issues uniquely related to terrorist attacks. The field encompasses four broad areas: preparedness, incident management, mechanisms of injuries and responses, and psychological consequences. In Essentials of Terror Medicine, these core concerns are addressed by a distinguished international authorship brought together by the three editors of this volume, who themselves are recognized experts in...

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Overcome your fears and build your confidence while you master the mathematic and pharmacology knowledge you need to pass your licensure exams and prepare for professional practice.

The 5th Edition of this popular resource presents often complex information is an way that's easy to understand and easy to follow, emphasizing the relevance of the drug information to your work as a paramedic as well as the calculations required to safely administer the correct drug dosages.

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Noninvasive mechanical ventilation is an effective technique for the management of patients with acute or chronic respiratory failure. This comprehensive and up-to-date book explores all aspects of the subject. The opening sections are devoted to theory and equipment, with detailed attention to the use of full-face masks or helmets, the range of available ventilators, and patient-ventilator interactions. Clinical applications are then considered in depth in a series of chapters that address the use of noninvasive mechanical ventilation in chronic settings and in critical care, both within...

Health care professionals need to make rapid decisions under pressure to prevent and manage adverse outcomes during childbirth. Using an enquiry-based learning approach, this book offers a straightforward but comprehensive guide to emergency care, with scenarios throughout and expert commentary from a Supervisor of Midwives. It all addresses all major emergency situations as well as legal and clinical governance issues. It is essential reading for all midwives, paramedics and allied health professionals involved in the provision of obstetric care away from the acute setting.

• Visual presentation of the most common disorders that present in the emergency room
• New editorial board, including young and up-and-coming emergency physicians
• New table of contentsfocusedon key...

This user-friendly Stimulus Book gives clinicians all the visual stimuli needed to conduct PTBI(TM) effectively. With this book clinicians will develop the best possible supports for children with brain injury and prepare them for successful return to the classroom.

This book is part of PTBI(TM), a criterion-referenced, standardized test designed for use with children ages 6-16 recovering from brain injury. An effective and innovative tool that takes just 30 minutes to complete, PTBI assesses the skills children need to return to school and function in the general education curriculum....

This user-friendly Examiner's Manual gives clinicians the background information they need to implement PTBI(TM) effectively, including

• an overview of the test's development, framework, and rationale
• general guidance on optimizing the testing environment and conducting the test
• detailed information on administering and scoring each of the 10 individual PTBI(TM) subtests
• complete technical data, including evidence for construct-identification validity, score validity, reliability, and minimization of bias
• a case example demonstrating successful use of the tool...

The best last-minute review for the emergency medicine certification exam

Designed to reinforce essential information in minimal time, Emergency Medicine Oral Board Review: Pearls of Wisdom helps readers prepare for the exam with quick-hit questions and answers and a convenient outline format. Covering only the subject matter most likely to be seen on the test, this quick-review guide breaks down each topic by disease or disorder, providing concise information about the patient's evaluation, diagnosis and treatment.

This comprehensive test review contains...

From the publishers of the market-leading at a Glance series comes a wide-ranging and succinct overview of the key concepts of emergency care. Emergency Nursing at a Glance uses the unique and highly visual at a Glance format to convey vital information quickly and efficiently, ensuring that nursing students have access to all the important topics they need for an emergency care placement. This highly visual, easy-to-read guide is the ideal companion for anyone entering fields involving urgent or unscheduled care.

-Includes all aspects of emergency care,...

Wissen in der Notfallmedizin vertiefen und auffrischen

Mit diesem handlichen Taschenbuch sind Sie fur jeden Notfalleinsatz gut vorbereitet: Multiple-Choice-Fragen mit pragnanten Kommentaren zu allen Antworten greifen die wesentlichen Fakten der Notfallmedizin auf, u.a. zu folgenden Themen:

• Notfallmedikamente und Infusionslosungen,
• kardiopulmonale Reanimation,
• allgemeine Toxikologie,
• Notfalle im Kindesalter, bei Schwangeren und Neugeborenen, Storungen der Vitalfunktionen

Die 3. Auflage wurde vollstandig aktualisiert und um aktuelle...