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This book brings the neurosciences to operational and clinical aviation medicine. It is concerned with the physiology and pathology of circadian rhythmicity, orientation, hypotension and hypoxia, and with disorders of the central nervous system relevant to the practice of aviation medicine. The chapters on circadian rhythmicity and orientation deal with the impaired alertness and sleep disturbance associated with desynchrony and with the effects of linear and angular accelerations on spatial a...

Two full-length model exams and coverage of the job interview process with all-important personality evaluation.

The handbook has been written by the staff who developed the most recent national driver training standards and who have years of experience in ambulance driver training. It provides a summary of the standards and practices expected of a driver of an ambulance service vehicle, for both emergency and non-emergency use. During ambulance driver training this handbook is combined with practical instruction delivered by expert trainers. The handbook is designed so that it can be used for self-study,...

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...

With differential text that supports a wide range of reading abilities, this series introduces the different people who help us in our communities.

This book has been re-issued as Dial 999! ISBN 9780552165310. Card-playing corpses, unfaithful husbands and 'flying' ladies - life as an ambulance driver in the 1970s was certainly varied ...At the age of twenty-three, Les Pringle decided to escape from office life, broaden his horizons and become an ambulance driver. Little did he realize how broad those horizons would turn out to be. Filled with warmth and humour, Blue Lights and Long Nights takes us back to a time when lonely old ladies could...

The ambulance service uses a lot of specialised vehicles in its day-to-day role of providing emergency care, routine transport and emergency response. These range from the specially constructed ambulance bodies on commercial chassis to small car conversions. In this collection of images, Peter Murphy reveals the true range of different types of ambulances used in Britain in the twenty-first century. In addition to the front-line ambulances used by the NHS, those of voluntary aid societies, priva...

This book provides a unique, authoritative and detailed examination of the physiological and clinical consequences of human exposure to high G forces. Pilots of military fast jets, civilian aerobatic pilots and astronauts during the launch and re-entry phases of spaceflight are frequently and repetitively exposed to high G forces, for which the human body is not fundamentally designed. The book examines not only the nature of the high G environment, but the physiological effects of exposure to h...