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

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...

This book is about my complex, fulfilling life in EMS, Health Care, Medicine and many personal adventures as I can remember them. The stories and presentations are as accurate and as clear as I could portray them without hurting or harming others along the way. Along the way, I have learned so many valuable lifelong lessons. This book shall share the lessons to you all to show you a different approach to many complex and diverse situations. I promise that you will see a unique way to face a challenging life.

The greatest personal satisfaction I can recive is simply knowing that many...

This book is about my complex, fulfilling life in EMS, Health Care, Medicine and many personal adventures as I can remember them. The stories and presentations are as accurate and as clear as I could portray them without hurting or harming others along the way. Along the way, I have learned so many valuable lifelong lessons. This book shall share the lessons to you all to show you

a different approach to many complex and diverse situations. I promise that you will see a unique way to face a challenging life.

• Goes beyond the scope of a traditional emergency...