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Introduction to Fire Prevention, Eighth Edition, presents a broad-based look at fire prevention, including arson suppression, fire safety education, and code enforcement. For information on teaching and learning resources available with this text, please contact your Brady representative. Teaching and Learning Experience: Meets the FESHE curriculum learning objectives and includes color photographs, key terms, and a list of objectives for each chapter Provides...

This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for prehospital and hospital personnel. It includes Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction and the RAPID Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction. For further information on each individual product, please click on the link provided below.

A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mom watches, in mute shock, as her daughter suffers a terrifying fatal asthma attack; a young girl is gang raped and her stricken boyfriend takes an overdose; a disturbed young man flings himself in front of a speeding train at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. Few people can imagine living in a world where such situations are part of everyday life. Yet for London Ambulance Paramedic Lysa Walder, these...

The Second Edition of this important book on emergency driving in the ambulance service has been completely revised and updated since the First Edition, published in 2012. The text has been comprehensively reviewed by experts from many branches of the ambulance service across the UK, and their comments have been addressed by the book’s authors, the Driver Training Advisory Group (DTAG). This expanded Second Edition includes many important features to facilitate understanding:     le...

A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding to death from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches, in mute shock, as her daughter suffers a terrifying fatal asthma attack; a young girl is gang raped and her stricken boyfriend takes an overdose; a disturbed young man flings himself in front of a speeding train at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve...Few people can imagine living in a world where such situations are part of everyday life. Yet for London Ambulance Paramedic Lysa Walder, these...

The Vendee Globe Challenge is a singlehanded circumnavigation, without port of call and without outside assistance. Raphael Dinelli, youngest and least experienced of the 16 yachtsmen and women to set sail in November 1996 tells the story of his horrendous capsize and dismasting in the Southern Ocean - the fear and exhaustion, the numbing cold of the Antarctic waters, and of his rescue against the odds by fellow skipper Pete Goss, later to receive the Legion d'Honneur from the President of Franc...

Every ambulance clinician has experience of patient pain. In UK ambulance services, we pride ourselves in treating that pain, but without necessarily truly grasping the underlying principles of it or its devastating effects on the patients’ lives. People with chronic pain deal with their pain differently to those who suffer an acute illness or injury and it is important that our treatment regimens meet the specific needs of all the patients we serve. Working with our colleagues in the medical p...

Intimate Partner Violence is a resource for a wide range of professionals who work with children and families. The content includes contemporary concepts and research on IPV, a pervasive problem in our society that affects adults and children and crosses all socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic boundaries. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive reference, but rather an accessible guide that can be quickly read and referenced. 23 contributors

Today the lifeboat service in Ireland is the responsibility of the RNLI, which currently operates more than forty lifeboat stations. This volume contains details of every one, providing information about each station's current lifeboat to an historical overview of each as well as descriptions of the most noteworthy rescues.

The first half of this book is packed with a wide range of information on all aspects of first aid and life saving, with special sections on babies and toddlers, outdoor safety and travel. Informative flow charts, symptom lists and warning boxes are included, and key information explains how to stay healthy and prevent accidents. In the second half of the book hundreds of medical conditions are examined, discussed and diagnosed. Practical and jargon-free advice is given on every type of illness,...

Mayo Clinic Critical Care Case Review is a unique compellation of cases presented at the highly rated Mayo Clinic Clinical Pathological Case (CPC) Conference. Designed to cover rare cases in a short amount of time, these reviews are set up in what is called the "unknown" format: highlighting the clinically key elements of the patient's hospital course, singling out the diagnostic dilemmas, and concludes with a question and answer format that allows clinicians to take home relative points for cli...

International terrorism remains a significant threat to the peace of the world. Weapons using various materials and delivery systems have been directed against cities and infrastructure, and other materials are postulated to be usable within the near future. Some of these materials are unusual or exotic, while some are modifications of materials used daily for other purposes: biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear and explosive. These materials pose a safety challenge for first responders,...

Tailored to the standards outlined by the governing arms of OSHA 1910.120 and the EPA, this text devoted exclusively to the emergency medical service sector and hazardous materials releases provides EMS personnel and other first responders with an education and training program for building upon med

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is the charity that saves lives at sea. For nearly two hundred years its volunteers have shown courage and selflessness in facing storm and shipwreck to offer assistance. Never taken for granted, these qualities of service transcend the centuries to ring as true now as in the earliest days of the lifeboats. This unprecedented new book is a photographic celebration of every-day bravery, compassion, and outstanding commitment in the toughest of conditions....