This unique book offers readers something that few other EMS books do - the opportunity to experience a host of different case studies, each with its unique scenarios, facts, and complications! Paul Werfel has crafted educationally sound and professional EMS field stories that place you on the scene with EMS personnel responding to real-world incidents that challenge you to think and educate you in the process. Each case presents a different challenge and Werfel's educational summary cues you in...
Applying Occupational Psychology to the Fire Service
Applying Occupational Psychology in the Fire Service: Emotion, Risk and Decision-Making provides readers with an overview of the latest research informing the policies, procedures and practices of those working on the ground in the UK Fire Service. Using best-practice principles and cutting-edge theory, the current text demonstrates how occupational psychology can be applied to fire services around the globe to improve individual, management, and organisational decisions. The authors aim to prov...
As a young medical student, Dr. David Casarett was inspired by the story of a two-year-old girl named Michelle Funk. Michelle fell into a creek and was underwater for over an hour. When she was found she wasn’t breathing, and her pupils were fixed and dilated. But after three hours of persistent work, a team of doctors and nurses was able to bring her back. If Michelle could come back after three hours of being dead, what about twelve hours? Or twenty-four? What would it take to revive someone...
Harwich lifeboat station operates two modern, state-of-the-art lifeboats,operated by 28 volunteers and two full-time members of staff. The lifeboats work the coasts of Essex and Suffolk, as well as the rivers Stour, Orwell and Deben, the Walton Backwaters and the Thames estuary south of Harwich. Nicholas Leach, editor of Ships Monthly, tells the story of the various Harwich lifeboats, their crews and the daring rescues they have performed since the first lifeboat was established in the 1820s. Pe...
First Aid and CPR
An approved text for the National Safety Council's First Aid and CPR course, combining first aid and CPR content with color photos of emergency procedures and real injuries, first aid tips, Web activities, news stories, and guidelines, plus study questions and skill flow charts. Coverage includes vi
Review of the UK Search and Rescue Provision and Coverage Criteria
Waveney Fast Afloat lifeboats (Lifeboat Design and Development, #8)
by Nicholas Leach
Countermeasures to Airborne Hazardous Chemicals
by J M Holmes and C.H. Byers
Presents a study which reviews the entire spectrum of activities, recommends appropriate action, and gives technical guidance. the information in the book is from Countermeasures to hazardous chemicals, prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, April 1989. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Report of a clinical governance review at Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust
by Commission for Health Improvement
This volume is a shocking insight into the way the idea of romantic love can justify and excuse the killing of women by their spouses and partners, and lead to sympathy and reduced prison sentences for the killers. The author explores how stories of domestic homicide and love are told in the news, by the police, and in the courts, drawing from the reporting of 72 cases which happened in just one twelve month period. The findings make compelling reading and are important in understanding how we r...
First Aid, CPR, and AED (Academic Version)
by American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)
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 offering step-by-step explanations and visual summaries of important skills; Flowch...
Emtb 02234 6e Transitional Program
Aquatic Rescue Professional
Rescuing wild animals in distress requires a unique set of skills, very different from those used in handling domestic animals. The equipment, degree of handling, the type of caging and level of care a wild animal receives can mean the difference between life and death. Wildlife Search and Rescue is a comprehensive guide on ‘best practices’ and suggested standards for response to sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. This valuable resource covers the fundamentals of wildlife rescue, from ‘phone t...
A Gripping Account of Life as a First Responder Michael Morse, an eighteen year veteran firefighter and EMT, takes you along for the ride as he and his fellow officers respond to emergency calls on the streets of Providence, RI. Race from one call to the next as Morse goes from facing life and death emergencies to treating minor injuries and carting drunks to detox. See for yourself how difficult, frustrating and at times heartbreaking this job can be, as lives are lost, scarce medical resou...
Master the art of using combustion to combine digital elements such as a 3ds max rendering with video footage or stills! The newest addition to our Ground Rules Series, this how-to manual is one of the first resources available for computer artists and animators who want to learn how to make optimal use of combustion- a powerful Macintosh- and Windows-based desktop solution from Discreet that provides a unified paint, animation, and 3D composition environment in which cutting-edge graphics and c...
Take a breathtaking ride ride along with emergency responders. Rescue Lieutenant Michael Morse brings you into the homes, minds and hearts of the people who live in one of America's oldest and most diverse cities. He takes you along for a breathtaking ride as he responds to emergencies that can be heartwarming, hilarious-and sometimes tragic. From the profound to the absurd, from challenging situations to total disbelief, it's all simply a day at work for our firefighters, EMTs and police offic...
Prehospital Emergency Care with Student Workbook, and Student Access Code Package for EMT Achieve
by Joseph J Mistovich and Keith J. Karren
Recognizing the lack of a national standard for wilderness first aid, The Boy Scouts of America formed a Task Force consisting of wilderness medicine specialists, medical epidemiologists, legal expertise, and educators to develop a curriculum and doctrine for a 16 hour wilderness first aid (WFA) course. Buck Tilton was the lead author of this project. As author he had to amalgamate the results of the literature research performed by the Task Force and through multiple revisions until this final...