Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Emergency Medicine

The elderly represent the fastest growing segment of the population in developed countries, reflected in the patient population presenting to EDs and hospitals. These patients more often than not have greater co-morbidities, more complicated workups and utilize more laboratory and radiologic services.

This text is designed to teach emergency physicians how best to care for this specific demographic of patients. It addresses physiologic changes, high-risk conditions, and atypical presentations associated with elderly patients in the ED that result in frequent misdiagnosis or...

For more than thirty years, Marjorie Leigh Bomben has been a member of the Chicago Fire Department, starting her career as a candidate paramedic working on an ambulance in some of the city's toughest neighborhoods. Now a paramedic field chief, Bomben looks back on thirty years of service in It's Not the Trauma, It's the Drama.

The twenty true stories Bomben relates are unique-all told from the point of view of a woman rising through traditionally male ranks.

Bomben's tales range from funny to gory, from the dangers paramedics face to the history of a venerable old...

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...

This book explores a rapidly growing area of discussion in the health care industry, disruptive behavior in medical providers. The presence of disruptive behavior adversely impacts the providers of all disciplines: paraprofessional personnel, nurses, physicians and administrators. But more importantly, there may be a greater detrimental effect on quality and patient safety. This has led to mandated regulatory requirements that assist healthcare institutions in developing programs to address the problem. The book presents an evidence-based analysis of the disruptive provider behavior that...

As an orthopedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Dr. Manny Sethi has cared for people across Tennessee who have been the victims of high-energy trauma. Many of his patients stood on death's door facing seemingly insurmountable challenges - but all somehow recovered and triumphed to live a full and complete life. For three years, Dr. Manny spent countless hours with eight of these remarkable individuals exploring with them the critical factors in their road to recovery and why they were able to beat the odds. Indeed, their stories are different, but the...