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Emergency Medical Response to Hazardous Materials Incidents
: :This is an excellent guide to instituting hazardous materials response for public or private emergency response providers. It explores the medical aspects of hazardous material response including the initial response, chemical and toxicological information, effects on body systems -- injury and treatment, physiology and treatments of common poisonings. By gaining an overview, gathering and understanding information, the reader learns how to make decisions based on a scale of risk versus gain. Topics such as efforts such as decontamination techniques, ...
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Pediatric First Aid for Parents
: :This is an excellent guide to instituting hazardous materials response for public or private emergency response providers. It explores the medical aspects of hazardous material response including the initial response, chemical and toxicological information, effects on body systems -- injury and treatment, physiology and treatments of common poisonings. By gaining an overview, gathering and understanding information, the reader learns how to make decisions based on a scale of risk versus gain. Topics such as efforts such as decontamination techniques, ...
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Standard First Aid, CPR, and AED W/ Quick Gde Pkg: Includes DVD
: :This is an excellent guide to instituting hazardous materials response for public or private emergency response providers. It explores the medical aspects of hazardous material response including the initial response, chemical and toxicological information, effects on body systems -- injury and treatment, physiology and treatments of common poisonings. By gaining an overview, gathering and understanding information, the reader learns how to make decisions based on a scale of risk versus gain. Topics such as efforts such as decontamination techniques, ...
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Baby and Child Emergency First Aid Handbook
from: Meadowbrook Press,U.S.
:Book Description: This first-aid handbook is the first thing you should reach for when your child has an emergency -- when every second counts. Here's why: It is designed to help people with limited training in emergency medical procedures -- parents, babysitters, grandparents, and child-care providers -- deal quickly and easily with 34 of the most common childhood emergencies. The quick-reference index is highlighted on both covers so you can find the information you need in seconds. The large pages ...
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First Aid w/Pocket Guide (MH)
: :Not even injury or sudden illness is life-threatening. But immediate action can mean the difference between a quick, complete recovery and a long, painful one. Whether it's a simple sprain or a serious emergency, the National Safety Council's First Aid course teaches you to care for an injury or illness until professional help arrives. McGraw-Hill Public Safety Website
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How to Save Your Child's Life: What to Do After You Call 911
: :Before emergency strikes, learn these essential child-care skillsForeword by William Zajdel, D.O., FACOEPDo you know what to do...If your child isn’t breathing?- DO administer mouth-to-mouth or rescue breathing.- DO NOT waste time feeling for a pulse.If your child is bleeding profusely? - DO apply any absorbent material or even your bare hand over the wound.- DO NOT worry if the material isn’t sterile---antibiotics to fight infections can be given later.If your child is burned?- DO make sure that your ...
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Altitude Illness: Prevention & Treatment : How to Stay Healthy at Altitude : From Resort Skiing to Himalayan Climbing
:Book Description:Stay healthy at high heights with this pocket guide—now updated with the most current information on preparing for and adapting to altitude. ·Updated guidelines for people going to altitude (heights above 7,000 feet) with pre-existing health conditions such as heart conditions, diabetes, and cancer ·A handy glossary and easy-to-read tables covering symptoms and signs, altitude illness, and high altitude drugs ·Case studies of real situations and a question-and-answer section help readers better understand general issues about altitude and its ...
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The Healthy Traveler: A Handbook of Easy Solutions for Common Travel Ailments
:Book Description:We still have to travel, it's just harder than it used to be.... The Healthy Traveler tells you how to locate and use remedies from pharmacies, health food stores, kitchens --- and even your own backyard --- to relieve common ailments and stresses so often experienced when traveling. It's packed with helpful information you'll use again and again, and is the pefect companion for business, leisure, and armchair travel.
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Official Government First Aid Manual
from: Platinum Pr
:Book Description:We still have to travel, it's just harder than it used to be.... The Healthy Traveler tells you how to locate and use remedies from pharmacies, health food stores, kitchens --- and even your own backyard --- to relieve common ailments and stresses so often experienced when traveling. It's packed with helpful information you'll use again and again, and is the pefect companion for business, leisure, and armchair travel.
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The Basic Essentials of Trailside Shelters and Emergency Shelters (Basic Essentials Series)
:Book Description:We still have to travel, it's just harder than it used to be.... The Healthy Traveler tells you how to locate and use remedies from pharmacies, health food stores, kitchens --- and even your own backyard --- to relieve common ailments and stresses so often experienced when traveling. It's packed with helpful information you'll use again and again, and is the pefect companion for business, leisure, and armchair travel.
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