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The essential guide to emergency medical procedures away from home. The Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook provides easy-to-follow advice on how to prevent, treat and care for illnesses and injuries while outdoors or travelling. Using accurate drawings and a step-by-step format, the authors describe how to effectively assess a situation and what actions to take. The book covers: * Planning and pre-departure tasks, expeditions with children, examining a casualty, medical kit design; * Resuscitati...

PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) consist of image acquisition devices, storage archiving units, display stations, computer processors, and database management systems integrated within a communications network for the purpose of acquiring, storing, viewing, manipulating, and communicating diagnostic images and related information. This book aims to provide an introductory primer on PACS technology and applications. Topics include: industrial standards; image archiving; database...

This reference book on clinical experimentation focuses on principles that are especially useful in the design and analysis of studies on human subjects. It shows how to choose between modern and classical competing designs for a clinical study - such as crossover designs, multicenter studies, and repeated measure experiments - how to carry out each design and analyze the resulting data. The book provides many practical examples, end-of-chapter problems and references, and solutions to each prob...

Emergency medical service represents more than 80 per cent of the response activity in emergency response agencies. The whole concept of EMS has undergone drastic changes and improvements over the past three decades. With the ongoing threat of deadly diseases, the methods once practiced to treat trauma victims are not necessarily the best, or safest, procedures. In this day and age, change is the only constant. This book is designed to improve the quality of your EMS delivery.

This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the chapters offer a holistic view of ethnography within medical contexts. This edited volume is organized around major methodological themes, such as ethics, interviews, narrative analysis and mixed methods. Through the use of case studies, it illustrates how methodological considerations for ethnographic healthcare research are distinct from those in other fields....

Get all the major facts in this affordable, pocket--sized, concise reference. Presents the latest research in transition factors important to the study of gene regulation and cell differentiation and its implications for biomedical investigation, particularly in cancer, gene therapy and developmental biology.

Throughout the year, Cooking Light magazine produces some of the most unique and sought-after recipes derived from cutting edge food science, exotic world flavors, and the latest research on healthy eating. All those phenomenal recipes from 2013 can now be found in COOKING LIGHT'S ANNUAL RECIPES 2014, with over 700 favorite light recipes and over 400 pages of the menus, tips and techniques to guarantee success in the kitchen. These tried and tested recipes cover a wealth of food categories (and...

Presents the best of what the Net has to offer in health and wellness. Designed to save computer users' time, money and frustration, this resource summarizes the most creative and practical sites on the Net and provides an up-to-date listing of how to find them. The work includes the online address and a brief summary of each site, along with highlights of notable downloads and forums. It also features a rating system for evaluating each site, including response time, content, graphics, interact...