Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition
by American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
from Jones & Bartlett Publishers
For nearly 35 years, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons has been a driving force in the field of EMS education, first by publishing Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured. Now, the Ninth Edition continues that dedication and commitment to training future EMT-Basics and the instructors who are paving their way.
Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured, Ninth Edition is the center of an integrated teaching and learning system that will help define the future direction of EMS education. It combines comprehensive medical content with dynamic new features and interactive technology to better support instructors and to help prepare students for the field.
An interactive skills DVD is packaged free with each copy of the text.
ECGs Made Easy - Book and Pocket Reference Package
by Barbara Aehlert
from Mosby/JEMS
Written in a more conversational style, this popular text offers clear, straightforward explanations plus practice exercises that make it easier than ever to understand and interpret basic dysrhythmias. This edition features more practice ECG strips, expanded Stop and Review exercises, and a new companion CD-ROM with video clips and additional ECG strips. This package also includes a handy Pocket Reference and a heart rate calculator ruler.
- Description of each dysrhythmia's characteristics is presented along with causes, possible clinical significance, and recommended interventions.
- Contains chapter objectives and key terms.
- The Introduction to the 12-Lead ECG chapter provides all the basics for this advanced skill, including determining electrical axis, ECG changes associated with myocardial ischemia and infarction, bundle branch block, and miscellaneous conditions.
- A comprehensive post-test is provided at the end of the book in chapter 10.
- Rewritten in conversational style to improve readability.
- Expanded Stop and Review section at the end of each chapter includes matching, short answer, multiple choice, true/false questions, crossword puzzles, and practice ECG tracings.
- Over 100 new illustrations visually support the text.
- ECG Pearl boxes give helpful hints for interpreting ECGs.
- Drug Pearl boxes highlight various medications used to treat dysrhythmias.
- Expanded to include even more practice ECG strips.
- Expanded 12-lead ECG chapter.
Prehospital Emergency Care (8th Edition)
by Joseph J. Mistovich
from Prentice Hall
The most complete resource for EMT-B training, this best-selling, reader-friendly book contains clear, step-by-step explanations with comprehensive, stimulating, and challenging material that prepares and equips users for real on-the-job situations. With its use of the case study model, state-of-the-art scans, algorithms, protocols, and the inclusion of areas above and beyond the DOT protocols, this new edition of Prehospital Emergency Care prepares users for success. The assessment and emergency care sections provide the most up-to-date strategies for providing competent care; and the enrichment sections further enhance readers' ability to assess and manage ill and injured patients in prehospital environments. Topics covered include an excellent introductory section that contains an overview of the human body, baseline vital signs, history taking, and ethical and legal issues. Subsequent chapters cover the airway; patient assessment; medical, behavioral, and obstetrics/gynecology; trauma; infants and children; operations; and advanced airway management. An excellent reference resource for emergency medical technicians.
The Wills Eye Manual: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease (Rhee, The Wills Eye Manual)
from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
First Aid, CPR, And AED: Academic Version
by Alton L. Thygerson
from Jones & Bartlett Publishers
First Aid, CPR, and AED, Fifth Edition is the center of an integrated teaching and learning system that offers instructor, student, and technology resources to better support instructors and prepare students. The text includes: Coverage of the 2005 CPR and ECC Guidelines Current information on injured and illnesses: Core information for first aiders presented in a clear and straightforward format. Skills Drills: Offer step-by-step explanations and visual summaries of important skills. Flowcharts: Reinforce the decision-making process and appropriate procedures. Decision Tables: Provide a concise summary of what signs first aiders should look for and what treatment steps they should take.
Emergency Care Workbook
by Robert Elling
from Prentice Hall
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
by Richard Preston
from Random House
Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling works have mesmerized readers everywhere by showing them strange worlds of nature they never dreamed of.
Panic in Level 4 is a grand tour through the eerie and unforgettable universe of Richard Preston, filled with incredible characters and mysteries that refuse to leave one’s mind. Here are dramatic true stories from this acclaimed and award-winning author, including:
• The phenomenon of “self-cannibals,” who suffer from a rare genetic condition caused by one wrong letter in their DNA that forces them to compulsively chew their own flesh–and why everyone may have a touch of this disease.
• The search for the unknown host of Ebola virus, an organism hidden somewhere in African rain forests, where the disease finds its way into the human species, causing outbreaks of unparalleled horror.
• The brilliant Russian brothers–“one mathematician divided between two bodies”–who built a supercomputer in their apartment from mail-order parts in an attempt to find hidden order in the number pi (π).
In fascinating, intimate, and exhilarating detail, Richard Preston portrays the frightening forces and constructive discoveries that are currently roiling and reordering our world, once again proving himself a master of the nonfiction narrative and, as noted in The Washington Post, “a science writer with an uncommon gift for turning complex biology into riveting page-turners.”
First Aid Cases for the USMLE Step 1 (First Aid)
by Tao Le
from McGraw-Hill Medical
The case companion to the best-selling First Aid for the USMLE Step 1
Essential in preparing for the USMLE Step 1, this comprehensive case book features 240 high-yield clinical cases, a unique one-case-per-page format, active recall questions and answers for each case, and more than 200 illustrations. Written by Dr. Tao Lee,this is the perfect study companion to his First Aid for the USMLE Step 1.
Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide
by Paula Derr
from Informed
The new 5th edition Emergency and Critical Care Pocket GuideT helps physicians, paramedics and nurses check ACLS drug doses, interpret ECGs, look up patient medications, and much more! Includes the 2005 AHA Guidelines!
Handbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care 2008: For Healthcare Providers (AHA Handbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care)
from American Heart Association
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