Emergency Medicine

In the current climate of increasing prehospital demand, it is more important than ever for paramedics to demonstrate optimum skill, safety, and professionalism. With growing call volume, public scrutiny, legal liability, and employer expectation often creating a sense of overwhelm, the ability to maintain these standards can begin to suffer. Find out how to evaluate your everyday practice using a simple, pain scale type approach. Remain at the top of your game, no matter where you’re at in your career.

Natural medicine is an ancient practice and has been practiced by many cultures for thousands of years. It works and can be used along with modern medicine. This book will help you learn everything you need to know to get started with natural medicine. This book provides all the information you need to deal with emergencies and survival situations effectively. Packed with useful information, how-to, and step-by-step recipes, this is your reference guide for whenever disaster strikes.

All Bleeding Stops gives listeners an intimate look at what goes on inside a trauma center, highlighting injuries sustained in car crashes, shootings, and stabbings—basically anything bleeding, obstructed, or perforated. Having lived and breathed trauma for four decades, Dr. Cohn is an ideal guide to demystify the role of the trauma surgeon and their place in a hospital. The behind-the-scenes look he provides is infused with sobering tales from his career as a military surgeon and in trauma centers across the country as well as his descriptions of high-profile medical stories.

After a disaster, there’s a single, vital skill that very few survivors will have. Fighters and builders are important, but there is no survivor so valuable and sought after as the one who can help out when illness or injury strikes. As any good prepper knows, thinking ahead and planning ahead will enable you to live a good and healthy life completely off the grid. The ability to care for the sick and injured? That’s one of the most important preparations you can make.

Developed by distinguished professors and professionally narrated by an experienced EMT for accuracy, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Emergency Medical Technician or EMT certification exam.

In the case of the recent virus, the most ideal carrier animal is a bat or snake. Since humans don’t consume snakes and bats in several areas of the world but in some places like China they are consumed, it is suspected that the new outbreak is linked to the consumption of an infected bat. The same is the cause for other virus outbreaks in the past.

You’ve tried it all: medicines, doctor’s visits, scans, and a range of other alternatives. Now that you’re desperate, you’re thinking of CBD, but you don’t want to become a junky, right? This is the only comprehensive guide to CBD oil you’ll ever need. For starters, using CBD oil won’t make you a junky. It can be your best friend during your time of pain, confusion, and trauma. It puts you in control of your health, life, and happiness. Begin your journey with CBD oil the right way, learning about everything from its past to production — from case studies to benefits.

Andy Thompson's true-to-life, graphic, and gripping account of his work as an NHS paramedic in Britain's Accident and Emergency Ambulance Service will shock you, sadden you, entertain you, and perhaps inspire you. You'll smile at some of Andy's real patient encounters, while others will cause you to wipe a tear.

Twenty years ago the most common cause of death for medical humanitarians and other aid workers was traffic accidents; today it is violent attacks. And the death of each doctor, nurse, paramedic, midwife, and vaccinator is multiplied untold times in the vulnerable populations deprived of their care. In a 2005 report, the ICRC found that for every soldier killed in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 60 civilians died due to loss of immunizations and other basic health services.

Wellness has been defined in broad strokes for centuries - until now. This book clarifies a holistic perspective of what it means to be healthy while revealing common roadblocks to resilience and the resources needed to resist each one. Using personal stories and a diverse array of peer-reviewed behavioral, psychological, and organizational research, the authors present an evidence-based model for building physical, psychological, cognitive, emotional, financial, spiritual, social, and professional capital.

The audiobook is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate organic chemistry course. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions.

Lachen – lernen – Leben retten. Wie war das noch gleich mit der stabilen Seitenlage? Und wie lauten die fünf W-Fragen, die bei einem Notruf angeblich wichtig sein sollen? Ein Notfall ist immer eine Extremsituation – und wer ist darauf schon vorbereitet? In Zukunft: du! Denn egal wie unwissend und unsicher du ich fühlst: Es ist wirklich ganz einfach, das Richtige zu tun, weil du eigentlich gar nichts falsch machen kannst. Deshalb sieht es Notfallmediziner Dr. Lüder Warnken als seine Aufgabe, mehr Menschen zum Handeln zu ermutigen und zu kompetenten Ersthelfern zu machen.

Bernard Marks and Martha Alford met by chance. No real reason for it, just a series of fluky coincidences. The odds were long that they would hit it off. That wasn’t in the cards they’d been dealt at birth. “It’ll never last,” people whispered after they got engaged. “Poor probability of success” was the general consensus when they married. But Bernie and Martha ignored the naysayers. Gamblers in love, they rolled the dice.

Da un anno, a causa della pandemia da Covid-19, la virologia è sotto i riflettori mediatici. Mai come ora capita che tutti, indipendentemente dalle competenze, parlino di carica infettante, di vaccini e varianti di farmaci antivirali e anticorpi neutralizzanti. Ma alcuni virologi, invece di compiacersi di questa attenzione, sono preoccupati per le banalizzazioni che vengono divulgate. Questo Saggio – di impronta autenticamente scientifica, ma capace di un approccio divulgativo – consente anche ai profani della materia di addentrarsi nel mondo della virologia.

Are you interested in pandemics? Do you have a passion for virology and epidemiology? Learn about the greatest pandemics in history, from the Spanish Flu to the current new pandemic virus crisis. If we are open to learning from history, we can avoid repeating it. There is a dire need for this informative and timely audiobook that carefully and meticulously details the history of the pandemics and elaborates upon a cohesive response and integrated efforts in response to it. Listening and understanding this audiobook will be extremely helpful as we combat the fatal virus together.

The inspiring story of a Black doctor who was deeply affected by the violence that plagued his Brooklyn childhood and later dedicated himself to addressing trauma and violence as public health issues....

Based on experiences of a New York City resident and Emergency Service Technician, Concrete Lifeguards is a book that tells us about the life of the men and women behind the uniform.

What is it really like to be a firefighter? How does it feel to respond to an emergency call, to know that someone's life hangs in the balance and every second is critical? What is it like to fight a fire, to battle through the heat and the smoke, to put your own life in danger to save others? How does it feel to rescue survivors, and what is it like to recover the bodies of those who you didn’t reach in time?

This book can be used when making difficult healthcare decisions at home with no available guidance. It is also used if one's financial situation is such that a family is concerned about not being able to afford some or all care being offered. In such situations, this book helps patients, families, and neighbors gather together as they make difficult decisions right in their homes.

Are you wondering how to perform first aid techniques and administer survival medicine during any situation? Discover how to provide first aid, perform CPR, and lots of other life-saving techniques.