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Here's where we shelve books related to your subject area:
QM 1 - 695 | Human anatomy. |
QP 1 - 495 | Physiology. |
RA 995 - 996 | Ambulance service. |
RC 86 - 88.9 | Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid. |
RD 92 - 97.8 | Emergency surgery. Wounds and injuries |
RM 300 - 666 | Drugs and their actions. |
A few eBooks related to Emergency Medicine include:
Study Skills has a direct and forthright approach, and covers everything students need to succeed in academia. Written by paramedics for paramedics, this book will help students of all academic levels quickly find their feet and excel on their journey toward working in an ambulance or healthcare setting.
Drawing on the latest National EMS Education standards, the authors will equip you for care delivery grounded in the latest evidence-based guidelines. Rather than simply presenting facts, principles and concepts, they'll challenge you to use clinical reasoning to solve patient care problems, preparing you to transfer your skills and knowledge into a future career.
Designed to help paramedicine students excel at their academic requirements; a unique book in that it brings together anatomy and physiology in a way that is useful for future practice in the field.
This is an essential resource for the next generation of paramedics and out-of-hospital practitioners; ideal for undergraduate paramedic and emergency care students, as well as registered paramedics, clinicians, and educators.
This textbook will help students improve, expand, and enhance their expertise and the overall health and wellbeing of their patients, while boosting their self-confidence as paramedics in the process. This textbook integrates the extensive knowledge of pharmacology into a workable and accessible plan of care that will help to improve patient care.
This textbook links theory to practice and supports high-quality care in dynamic, fast-paced environments. Drawing on the latest available evidence and clinical best practice, it promises to support current paramedics, and prepare student paramedics for their future as healthcare professionals.
This book will be essential reading for student paramedics as well as qualified paramedics, ambulance clinicians, and wider healthcare professional groups undertaking continuous professional development. The book will support healthcare professionals interested in the theory and practice of decision-making in clinical practice.
This edition broadens the traditional boundaries to include new and emerging areas of paramedic practice and includes 3 new chapters: Community Paramedicine, Research and Quality, and Mechanical Ventilation.
EMS Vehicle Operator Safety (EVOS), 2nd Edition addresses the vehicle operations and transport safety knowledge gaps that lead to damage, injury, and death. Built on current research and featuring discussions of actual crashes and common driving scenarios-and lessons that can be learned from them-it challenges emergency vehicle operators (EVOs) to consider if they truly know how to arrive at a scene safely.
Experts from the top hospitals in America's largest cities provide their insights into the disease states, injuries, patient populations, practice barriers, and societal conditions which present disproportionality in urban emergency departments.
This book is the first institutional ethnography to explore the role and increasing importance of paramedics in our healthcare system. It takes readers on a journey into the everyday lives of EMS personnel and provides an in-depth sociological analysis of the work of pre-hospital health care professionals in the twenty-first century.
Davis’s Canadian Drug Guide for Nurses®, Eighteenth Edition delivers everything you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—643 well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names.
Communication for Nursing and Health Care Professionals is an engaging resource for health care and nursing students that aims to aid in the development of communication skills and tools for professional practice.