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

Rolando Rossi liefert die Kernformationen uber die logistischen und medizinischen Erfordernisse, die Moglichkeiten und die Grenzen der Repatriierung. Er beantwortet Fragen nach Organisationskonzepten fur boden- und luftgebundene Patiententransporte und schildert den praktischen Ablauf der Uberwachung und Behandlung von der Ubernahme bis zur Ubergabe in der aufnehmenden Einrichtung. Checklisten zur Vorbereitung und Durchfuhrung von Repatriierungen runden die kompakte Einfuhrung ab.

Geriatric Emergencies is a practical guide to the common conditions affecting older patients who present in an emergency to hospital or primary care.

Beginning with the essentials of history taking and clinical examination, the book covers a comprehensive range of emergencies, emphasizing the different management approaches which may be required in older patients. Common geriatric presentations such as falls, delirium and stroke, are explored in detail in addition to more diverse topics such as abdominal pain, major trauma and head injury. Ethical considerations such as...

This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of policing against the backdrop of massive cuts in public expenditure experienced and the changing landscape of policing. The challenges of funding, training, online-crimes and cultural transformation are now felt globally. The need to learn and adapt from suitable models of police service delivery have never been greater. The book offers critical insights into the theory and practice of strategic and operational management of police services and the related professional and policy aspects. One of the...

The ultimate one-stop success guide to the EMT-Basic exam--now fully updated

If you want the highest score possible on the EMT-Basic exam, there's no better study partnerthan McGraw-Hill Education's EMT-Basic Exam Review book. Based on in-the-trenches insights from a seasoned EMT instructor, this streamlined, skill-building study guide helps you think through pre-hospital medicine while covering every must-know topic on the exam. Each chapter begins with a clinical scenario followed by a bulleted overview of key topics and is summarized by retention-enhancing Q&As at...

This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of the ambulance services against the backdrop of massive cuts in health budgets around the world and the changing context of pre-hospital care within the wider healthcare networks. The challenges of funding, training and cultural transformation are now felt globally. The need to learn and adapt from suitable models of ambulance service delivery have never been greater. The book offers critical insights into the theory and practice of strategic and operational management of ambulance services and the...

The World Health Organization s recently published Global Report on Drowning found that drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide making the information presented in this new book an important part of the global effort to reduce this health risk.
Written by leading researchers and academics from around the world, The Science of Beach Lifeguarding focuses on the scientific evidence that underpins what is taught to and practised by beach lifeguards. It is the first book to pull together all the different areas involved in beach...

This book summarizes various approaches for the automatic detection of health threats to older patients at home living alone. The text begins by briefly describing those who would most benefit from healthcare supervision. The book then summarizes possible scenarios for monitoring an older patient at home, deriving the common functional requirements for monitoring technology. Next, the work identifies the state of the art of technological monitoring approaches that are practically applicable to geriatric patients. A survey is presented on a range of such interdisciplinary fields as smart...

Dieses interdisziplinare Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk gibt einen klar strukturierten, orientierenden Uberblick uber Aufgaben, Strukturen, Organisationen und Akteure in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen von Notfallvorsorge und Gefahrenabwehr. Thematisiert werden sowohl natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftliche als auch sozial- und humanwissenschaftliche Aspekte des Risiko- und Katastrophenmanagements, sodass der Bevolkerungsschutz in Deutschland als eine klassische Querschnittsaufgabe erscheint. Das Werk leistet einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Entwicklung ubergreifender Reflexions- und...

This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of the ambulance services against the backdrop of massive cuts in health budgets around the world and the changing context of pre-hospital care within the wider healthcare networks. The challenges of funding, training and cultural transformation are now felt globally. The need to learn and adapt from suitable models of ambulance service delivery have never been greater. The book offers critical insights into the theory and practice of strategic and operational management of ambulance services and the...

Three introductory chapters review a critical thinking approach to the unstable or pulseless patient, crisis resource management principles to improve team performance and the importance of cognitive aids in adhering to guidelines during perioperative crises. The remaining sections cover six major areas of patient instability: cardiac, pulmonary, neurologic,...