Practice safe procedures when responding to highway incidents with HIGHWAY SCENE SAFETY. A valuable learning tool for emergency response safety courses or as a handy reference manual for the field, this book focuses on operational guidelines necessary to conducting effective highway management while on the scene of the incident. Emphasizing the need to reduce line of duty deaths for all emergency responders, this book covers pre-planning, the national incident command system, governing laws, int...
Einfuhrung in Den Bevoelkerungsschutz
by Frank Fiedrich and Dominic Kudlacek
McGraw-Hill's Firefighter I & II Review is a DVD & CD package that visually demonstrates and explains the 90+ NFPA testable skills required to pass the firefighter certification exam. Uniquely, the test review component of our package allows the student to self test, assess, and remedy the skills and competencies necessary to become certified. McGraw-Hill Public Safety Website
You wake in the middle of the night with a terrible pain radiating from your lower side up to your chest. An ambulance is called, and you're rationed ever increasing doses of morphine on your way to the hospital. In the EW, a heart attack is ruled out but the mystery intensifies. Until a CT scan reveals the truth ..."You", in this case, was the author, who, with the kindness of a Dr Who understudy and other medical staff at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane, survived a urgent operation and had many m...
Good Housekeeping Family First Aid
by Andy Jagoda, M.D. Peter Shearer, and Jessica Freedman
EMT National Training Emergency Medical Responder, EMR Practice Questions
by Arthur S Reasor, Ryan L Asher, and Travis W Holycross
Fire Service Rescue
The modern emergency vehicle comes in a bewildering variety of forms and functions, but their aim is fundamentally the same – to save or preserve life and property, and maintain public safety. This book presents a photographic journey across the UK and northern Europe, looking at some of the common and not so common emergency vehicles that can be summoned to our aid and assistance. The author’s journey has taken in some of the familiar and not so familiar ‘heroes’ that serve their local communi...
International Mountain Rescue Handbook
The Handbook of Ellipsometry is a critical foundation text on an increasingly critical subject. Ellipsometry, a measurement technique based on phase and amplitude changes in polarized light, is becoming popular in a widening array of applications because of increasing miniaturization of integrated circuits and breakthroughs in knowledge of biological macromolecules deriving from DNA and protein surface research. Ellipsometry does not contact or damage samples, and is an ideal measurement techniq...
Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural and Man-made Disasters
by Michael I. Greenberg
Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-Made Disasters discusses major toxicological incidents, both man-made and environmental in nature. Many of the man-made incidents resulting from occupational or industrial accidents have also led to environmental contamination, illness, and death for a great number of victims. Now for the first time, these occurrences with hazardous material are documented in a single index -- Encyclopedia of Terrorist, Natural, and Man-Made Disasters. An ideal resour...
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. For courses in basic trauma life support.A decades-long leader in trauma educationFor over 30 years, International Trauma Life Support for Emergency Care Providers has been at the forefront of trauma education for all levels of prehospital emergency care worldwide. This complete resource is filled with practical, hands¿-on training that guide...
This practical new book on emergency dispatching goes beyond the theory of priorities dispatch' and addresses the roles and needs of live communicators and managers, with an emphasis on the human element in EMS dispatching. Features include coverage of quality assurance and systems status management, step-by-step instruction on how to build and maintain an entire EMS system, guidelines for hiring, training, retraining and evaluating employees in an emergency communications centre and sample conv...
Patient Communication for First Responders and EMS Personnel
by Donald Jacobs
ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may...
Automatic External Defibrillators
Paramedic Case Book: From Street to Emergency Department
by Sarah Fellows and Bob Fellows
"A great book written by a truly medical family ...This book will prove invaluable to the student paramedic and a great aid to the practicing paramedic ...The case studies are thought provoking and give an opportunity for students to learn about situations they will encounter during their careers and experienced paramedics and practitioners the opportunity to reflect on similar cases and question their practice ...I would highly recommend this book." Paul Bates (Paramedic), Higher Education Prog...
TestGen Computerized Test Bank for EMR Complete
by Daniel Limmer, EMT-P and Edward Dickinson