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For courses in Fire Service Management and Administration. This text is intended to prepare candidates for an assessment center process. The book contains seventy case studies on different aspects of the skills needed by a company officer to be successful. It focuses on a variety of company officer level management issues and incidents to assist in evaluation and on-going training in dealing with these events.

Featuring a foreword by Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security, The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook, 2e is the one-stop guide for any professional or student involved in counterterrorism, homeland security, business continuity, or disaster risk management.This indispensable book provides government officials, corporate risk managers, business and security executives, first responders, and all homeland security and emergency prepared-ness professionals with a wide-ranging...

Mike Rubin's conversational style and self-deprecating humor appeal to healthcare providers and patients, educators and students, employers, and employees. Whether you're a rescuer or you aspire to be, you'll find entertainment, advice, and encouragement in Life Support.

This important textbook presents real-world information on the safe, efficient operation of an ambulance. It emphasizes basic driving maneuvers and is fully illustrated.

Finally—an entire book devoted to the issue of stress in the emergency services! From reducing turnover due to burnout, to life-long stress management techniques to Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), this guide provides valuable information on handling stress for those in public safety professions. This book also meets CEU requirements for a weekend course.

A cardiac technician takes you to the front lines of emergency medicine-from tragic car accidents to gunshot wounds-in this "fast-moving" memoir (Booklist). This book takes the reader to the front lines of medicine, from a serious automobile accident on a dark country road to a woman in cardiac arrest to a young man with near-fatal gunshot wounds. For these patients and countless others, treatment cannot wait until they are wheeled into a distant emergency room. If lives are to be salvaged, ca...

Whether your interest is police, fire, ambulance or associated emergency and rescue services, this fully illustrated book of nearly 200 images captures the 999 services of the west of England going about their daily business. Covering the region stretching from South Gloucestershire to Cornwall, and from Weston-super-Mare to the Hampshire border, West of England Emergency Service Vehicles often captures the emergency services responding live to incidents on land, sea and in the air. Complementi...

This book analyses the private provision of rescue and emergency services, and focuses on the emergence of the world’s largest rescue company, Falck. The author’s structured academic perspective is informed through close co-operation with Falck, which operates in 44 countries and across 6 continents. The chapters examine aspects of reliability, culture, innovation, trust, governance and business development within rescue and emergency services, including differentiation, internationalisation...

This Navigate 2 Ebook Is Developed For Use Within First Aid, CPR, And AED Training Courses Offered Through Emergency Care & Safety Institute. Based On The 2015 International Consensus Guidelines For Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) And Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC), Standard First Aid, CPR, And AED Navigate 2 Ebook, Seventh Edition Is Ideal For Use Within Training Courses Designed To Certify Individuals In First Aid, CPR, And AED. This Navigate 2 Ebook Is The Center Of An Integrated Teaching A...

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to give first aid safely and with confidence. It comes in a handy format with colour illustrations and expert advice throughout. This invaluable first aid guide has been compiled by and with the advice of experts responsible for training the emergency services – fire, ambulance and police – to ensure its practical focus. It is easy to navigate and comes in a handy package, ready to provide a reassuring back-up when something goe...

This two-part book traces the history of motor lifeboats, from the first tentative steps to the development of the sophisticated machines, which are involved in some of the most dramatic rescues imaginable. The first part describes the process and development of the fleet over the last one hundred years. The second part describes all known types of vessel in considerable detail. The author is a renowned expert on the RNLI and brings a lifetime's experience to bear in what will come to be regarde...

Look after your little people - expert first aid for your home From first-aid essentials to life-saving procedures, it’s worth having someone who knows what they are doing to cope with life’s little (and big) emergencies. The new edition of this manual, published in association with the British Red Cross, gives you the knowledge you need instantly if a baby or child falls ill or gets hurt. User-friendly step-by-steps tell you how to treat babies and children for more than 100 medical conditio...