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"How do the emergency services in different countries of the world rescue people? How do they travel and what equipment do they use? This book looks at the work of ambulance services around the world, including how they take sick and injured people to hospitals and how they care for patients during transport"--
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What mindset prevents early career burn-out? What tools elevate the provider to excellence in patient care? What inspires innovation and passion for teaching? What separates the good physician… from the great physician? "An Emergency Medicine Mindset" is a collection of practice pearls revealed by contemporary physicians, walking in the footsteps of giants. From national legends Rob Orman, Salim Rezaie, Tim Horeczko, Anand Swaminathan, and many...
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Childhood traumas. Whether they occur by design or accident, affect a sizeable number of people, and restrict our ability to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. In this accessible and expertly written handbook, Ursula Markham takes an in-depth look at the nature of childhood trauma, showing how it can be recognized and eventually overcome.
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"The Most Unforgettable ER Night Shift Ever" follows DR. Adams on an epic 12-hour night shift in the Emergency Department. He reveals personal cases that he accumulated over a 25-year career. These unforgettable cases include his most titillating encounters. Patients arrive in the book sometimes in a coordinated manner but more often chaotically. That presentation is similar to how they occur on any ER shift around the USA. The various ER staff members...
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Against the background of broad brush strokes of Nepal's history and geography, David Hawker tells a dramatic story. After 20 years working in Nepal, Nurse Ellen Findlay saw an opportunity to go and attempt to meet the desperate needs of people living in the remote and inaccessible mountains of Nepal. With vision, determination and bravery, she and surgeon Mike Smith pioneered outreach into some of Nepal's most isolated and poverty-stricken communities....
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Los GuíaBurros son manuales básicos para aprender a utilizar una herramienta, realizar una actividad o adquirir un conocimiento determinado de manera sencilla y fácil.
GuíaBurros Primeros Auxilios, tú puedes salvar vidas, desde qué debe y qué no debe tener un botiquín en casa, pasando por las nociones básicas de primeros auxilios, de los productos y de los pedidos, hasta los principales accidentes que se producen en el hogar. Toda la información...
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2023.
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A medical memoir focusing on one emergency room doctor's shift in an urban ER follows the experiences of real patients and focuses on the story of a forty-three-year-old woman who arrives in sudden cardiac arrest and the challenges it presents for physicians.
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Military surgeons must assume a leadership role in combat casualty care in circumstances that are far less than ideal. This handbook provides much of the information needed to tackle these issues and features state-of-the-art principles and practices of forward trauma surgery as used by military physicians in far flung locations around the globe. Featuring nearly 200 illustrations demonstrating proper techniques, Emergency War Surgery is the most...
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Après avoir écrit sur le système de santé, la mort et sur la médecine elle-même, le docteur Alain Vadeboncoeur a eu envie de relaxer un peu et de partager les moments étranges et cocasses qui ponctuent sa vie à l'urgence.
Avec la sensibilité qu'on lui connaît, il raconte les petits travers des gens du métier (et les siens !), les rencontres loufoques, les contrastes étonnants entre certains drames et leurs répercussions insolites......
13) The Donor
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Dr. Colin Farnsworth, a famous heart surgeon, decides, since his daughter needs a heart transplant, to donate his own heart and designates his daughter is to receive it, bypassing the transplant list. This is a compelling and thrilling read from start to finish encompassing all the events that take place, the people's lives affected and the laws that govern heart transplants.
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This book aims to familiarize readers with the most common acute surgery topics encountered in clinical practice and is unique in its use of infographics. It will be used in clinical rotations in surgery as a supplement to the knowledge gained, and will also provide instructors with a complementary tool, offering a wide-ranging guide to general aspects of acute surgery, with some hints on gynecologic and urologic emergencies.
The book is intended...
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Las anomalías congénitas y adquiridas del macizo craneofacial abarcan un am-plio y complejo espectro de patologías con efectos devastadores para la vida de los pacientes. Desde el punto de vista del cirujano plástico, su enfoque y manejo integral demandan de la entera comprensión de los mecanismos fisio-patológicos subyacentes, la obligatoriedad de un manejo interdisciplinario y, desde la perspectiva quirúrgica, un profundo conocimiento de...
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[2019]
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A comprehensive source that offers the essential test prep needed to help readers score their best on the qualifying exam to become an emergency medical technician. This new edition covers all of the segment categories on the test itself as well as CPR, shock, and incident management.
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[2018]
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REA's EMT Crash Course® is the only book of its kind for the last-minute studier or any prospective Emergency Medical Technician who wants a quick refresher before taking the NREMT Certification Exam. Targeted, Focused Review - Study Only What You Need to Know Written by an EMS Program Director and NREMT paramedic with 30 years of experience, EMT Crash Course® relies on the author's careful analysis of the exam's content and actual test questions....
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The brutally honest story of an emergency medical technician. At 18, Joseph Clark started working as an ambulance attendant to pay his way through college. For the next seven years he worked New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods as an emergency medical technician (EMT), dealing with the medical emergencies from drug overdoses, gang fights, car crashes and worse, all while juggling schoolwork and a personal life. His stories are a graphic portrayal...
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The field of emergency medicine is constantly evolving, similarly, competency and skills provision is expanding too. Furthermore, each generation of emergency physicians will require additional knowledge and skills to meet the requirements of their training era. Thus, acquiring sufficient skills has become an increasingly important concept in any apprenticeship in emergency medicine.
Procedural and ultrasound skills are recognised as particularly...
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