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

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...

Rapid Emergency and Unscheduled Care outlines the fundamental skills and knowledge necessary to work in the emergency and unscheduled care setting, including pre-hospital care.

• Highlights key history/assessment knowledge, identifying red-flags, and defining and assisting with making a diagnosis
• Explores over 140 presenting ailments, with core information on definition, aetiology, epidemiology, history, examination, investigations and management.

Incorporating words of wisdom and advice from experienced practitioners, this A-Z reference book is...

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 aim of this book is to help the reader achieve the correct diagnosis in the emergency setting, which continues to remain a challenge, given the variety of potential clinical presentations. Diagnostic failure is the largest reason for delays in provision of appropriate treatment, which can be life-saving, and the largest source of clinical complaints and untoward incidents leading to poor clinical outcomes and to litigation.

In this book, the readers will find diagnostic checklists, organised according to potential emergency presentations and classified under body systems,...

This book analyses the private provision of rescue and emergency services, and focuses on the emergence of the world's largest rescue company, Falck. The author's structured academic perspective is informed through close co-operation with Falck, which operates in 44 countries and across 6 continents. The chapters examine aspects of reliability, culture, innovation, trust, governance and business development within rescue and emergency services, including differentiation, internationalisation and globalisation. Drawing on detailed case studies of Falck's global work in the USA,...

In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta.

Corman's comprehensive research includes more than 200 hours of participant observation ride-alongs with paramedics over a period of eleven months, more than one hundred first hand interviews with paramedics, and thirty-six interviews with other emergency medical personnel including administrators, call-takers and dispatchers, nurses, and doctors. At the heart of this ethnography are...

Pre–hospital Emergency Medicine at a Glance offers healthcare students and trainees the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills relevant to the provision of immediate care outside of the hospital. This concise text provides information on the principles of managing acutely unwell patients with life–threatening injuries at the scene of their accident, all in highly–illustrated double–page spreads to help explain key messages.

This brand new title:

• Looks at the ways in which pre–hospital care is organised and delivered in the United...

Ride in the back of the ambulance with Sherry Lynn Jones



Share the innermost feelings of emergency services workers as they encounter trauma, tragedy, redemption, and even a little humor. Sherry Lynn Jones has been an Emergency Medical Technician, Emergency Room Nurse, prison healthcare practitioner, and an on-scene critical incident debriefer. Most people who have observed or experienced physical, mental or emotional crisis have single perspectives. This book allows readers to stand on both sides of the gurney; it details a progression from innocence to...