First Responder Care Essentials is the ideal resource for Community First Responders. Grounded in practice and covering the full remit of the CFR role, the book takes you through the skills that you need when working with patients. Topics range from communication skills to manual handling, trauma care and cardiac arrest.
Saving Lives with India's Emergency Medical Response System
Emergency medical response systems are a critical component of any nation's healthcare system. This book tells the inspiring story of how the Indian government and a non-profit foundation, the Emergency Management and Research Institute, partnered to create a world-class emergency response system that serves more than 700 million people.
A comprehensive, step-by-step, well-illustrated introduction to common clinical procedures. This text is a user-friendly guide to performing 77 clinical procedures, ranging from those commonly performed to those infrequently called upon when minutes count in emergency, urgent, and primary care settings.
Don't go through your EMT training course without this handy reference! Packed with valuable information on scene size-up and patient assessment, this guide is an essential study tool for EMTs in training and an excellent refresher for EMTs already in the field. This guide also features a large section on anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology ......
Hospice care helps make the end of life the best it can be, yet the experience can be both rewarding and stressful to those involved. Karen Clayton's stories address end-of-life choices, palliative care, mixed feelings about hospice, care for the caregivers, managing dramatic incidents and fear, social isolation, saying goodbye, and remembering.
Easy to use and organized to present key information in a rapidly accessible format, this new edition of Clinical Manual of Emergency Psychiatry will equip psychiatric trainees and educators alike with the guidance they need to address complex emergent clinical situations quickly and with confidence.
This second edition of Ambulance Care Essentials offers a complete guide to the skills, knowledge and understanding required to work as a support worker or similar within the ambulance service.
Acute Medicine 3e is a current and concise guide to hospital emergency medicine for registrars, junior doctors and medical students working on the wards. Its not just a list of instructions but contains detailed pathophysiology and useful clinical pearls.