Product Description: Perfect for the non-specialist, this pocket guide focuses on common injuries and those abnormalities that are frequently overlooked or misinterpreted in the emergency department...and gives key indicators when a radiologist should be consulted. Using a concise and systematic approach, it explains how to examine and accurately interpret x-rays. Each chapter focuses on the basic radiographs required, important anatomy, normal variants, a system for inspecting suggested views, types of injury, and ends with a summary of key points.
Highlights common sources of error and diagnostic difficulty.
Emphasizes pitfalls and associated abnormalities.
Provides a summary of key points at the end of each chapter for a quick overview of the most important features.
Accompanies radiographs with line-drawings to explain difficult concepts.
Completely revises and updates all chapters.
Provides greater coverage of chest radiology.
Features more conceptual line drawings, tables, and summary charts, and improved quality of images.
Product Description: Successfully managing on-call situations requires a masterful combination of speed, skill, and knowledge. When you're on call...alone...in the middle of the night...On Call Neurology provides you with immediate access to the vital, step-by-step information you need to rise to the occasion! For every complaint, it guides you through the initial evaluation, differential diagnosis, neurologic examination, and treatment planning, so you can face any problem with confidence!
Walks you through the patient examination so you can focus on the most important neurologic features.
Reviews the indications for, and complications of, common neurodiagnostic tests.
Offers assistance in writing orders and providing comprehensive, complete workups.
Features the very latest information on Headache · Demyelinating Diseases · Infections of the Central Nervous System · Dementia · and more.
Provides an On Call Formulary covering the most common neurologic medications.
Book Description: Exceptionally up-to-date and substantive, this spiral-bound handbook provides a quick, thorough guide to all medications any paramedic will encounter in the field. Alphabetized by both trade and generic names, it contains 1) detailed profiles of over 90 emergency medications, and 2) an up-to-date list of commonly prescribed medications that patients may be taking at home. Drug profiles list the class, therapeutic action, indications, contraindications, dosages, side effects, drug interactions, and prehospital considerations. Medication drug class definitions explain the specific actions of the drug class and the conditions for which it is used. Home medications list. For Paramedics, EMTs, Nurses, and Respiratory Therapists.
Product Description: Manage any medical emergency you encounter in the great outdoors! Every day, more and more people are venturing into the wilderness and extreme environments...and many are unprepared for the dangers that come with these adventures. Whether these victims are stranded on mountain tops, lost in the desert, trapped deep in the woods, or injured far out at sea, this indispensable resource equips rescuers and health care professionals to diagnose and treat the full range of emergencies and health problems encountered in the wilderness!
Prepares you to handle everything from frostbite to infection by marine microbes, not to mention other diverse injuries, bites, stings, poisonous plant exposures, animal attacks, and natural disasters.
Introduces health care professionals to essential aspects of search and rescue.
Helps you to improvise using available materials.
Presents brand-new guidance on volcanic eruptions, extreme sports, splints and slings, wilderness cardiology, living off the land, aerospace medicine, mental health in the wilderness, tactical combat casualty care, and much more.
Discusses how to meet the needs of specific patient populations such as children, women, elders, and the disabled.
Offers guidelines for pain management, and addresses considerations for persons with chronic medical conditions.
Equips you to make smart decisions about gear, navigation, nutrition, and survival.
Moves all bibliographical references onto a bonus DVD in order to fit more content inside the book without making it too unwieldy.
Product Description: Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this portable guide offers fast-access solutions to all of the medical situations that can occur in non-traditional settings. Based on Dr. Auerbachs critically acclaimed text Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition, this handbook is packed with how-to step-by-step explanations and the latest practical advice on diagnosis and treatmentemphasizing ways of improvising care with whatever materials you have available. Its small enough to be carried in a cars glove compartment or in your backpackyet detailed enough to cover the clinical presentation and treatment of a full range of emergencies!
Offers appendices that address everything from environment-specific situations to lists of essential supplies, medicines, and many additional topics of care, enabling you to meet a full-range of emergency situations with the utmost effectiveness.
Includes line drawingsalong with a section of color platesthat aid in the identification of skin rashes, plants, snakes, insects, and more.
Provides Signs and Symptoms and Treatment sections in most chapterscombined with bulleted lists and text boxesthat facilitate quick and easy retrieval of information.
Presents full chapter coverage of both animal attacks and zoonoses for handling life-threatening situations.
Features peerless guidance in a portable format for consultation anywhere from the office setting to the open outdoors.
Features a new appendix on jungle travel and survival, and new chapters on forest fires, bandaging and taping techniques, mental health, hydration and dehydration, malariaand moreequipping you to handle any emergency you might encounter in the wilderness.
Includes more tips for improvisational care (eg, how to make a rigid litter using skis, poles, snowshoes, canoe paddles, or tree branches) to help you respond to wilderness and nontraditional emergencies with the materials that you have on hand.
Presents thorough revisions to all previously existing chaptersensuring that you have the latest knowledge at your fingertips.
Book Description: Case-based for most effective learning and retention, Bouncebacks helps emergency physicians sharpen their analytical skills to improve patient safety. The illustrative cases educate emergency physicians in documentation, risk management, and evaluation and management of common ED complaints and diagnoses.
Although patients in these cases were not entirely mismanaged, often important "red flags" were missed or ignored. The cases are structured for most learning impact: documentation of initial visits; Greg Henry, MD, FACEP (past president of ACEP) comments on evaluation and documentation from medical and risk management perspectives; final ED visits, diagnosis and hospital/surgical courses; and national experts' referenced discussions of appropriate ED approaches to diagnosis and management.
Goals include patient safety, continuing education in documentation, risk management, and discussion on evaluation and management of common ED complaints and diagnoses.
Book Description: From minor injuries such as scraped knees to major, potentially life-threatening conditions such as choking and shock, First Aid for Babies & Children Fast provides clear, step-by-step instructions for dealing with any childhood problem. Originally published in 1995, it has been completely revised and updated in line with currently accepted first aid techniques.
Product Description: They can surgically remove an arrow in a cat's abdomen, repair a bird's broken wing, even save a tiny foal that is in a coma. How? With high-tech x-rays, endoscopes, and electrocardiographsâbut most important, with a love of science and animals. Twenty-four hours a day, with a team of anesthesiologists, cardiologists, ophthalmologists, nurses, internists, residents, and a healthy dose of adrenaline, emergency room veterinarians try to heal these littleâand largeâcreatures we consider part of our families.
Filled with full-color behind-the-scenes photographs, this book captures the drama, excitement, and courage of being an ER vet.
Fire Officers: Principles and Practice by: Michael Ward 9 used from $37.57 24 Thirdparty New from $35.32 Edition: 1 Media: Paperback EAN: 9780763722470 ISBN: 0763722472 Number Of Pages: 414 Publication Date: 2005-04-19 Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.
Product Description: The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) are pleased to bring you Fire Officer: Principles and Practice, a modern integrated teaching and learning system for the Fire Officer I and II levels. Fore officers need to know how to make the transition from fire fighter to leader. Fire Officer: Principles and Practice is designed to help fire fighters make a smooth transition to the fire officer. The text is the core of the teaching and learning system with features that will reinforce and expand on the essential information and make information retrieval a snap. Covering the entire scope of NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, 2003 Edition, Fire Officer combines current content with dynamic features and interactive technology to better support instructors and help prepare future fire officers for any situation that may arise.