Key Benefit: The seventh edition of this best-selling, reader-friendly book contains clear, step-by-step explanations with understandable material that is comprehensive, stimulating, and challenging enough to prepare and equip practitioners for real-life situations. Key Topics: Contains assessment flowcharts illustrating care steps for breathing difficulty, cardiac compromise, diabetic emergencies, bleeding and shock, burns, head injuries, newborn resuscitation, and many more. Assessment summaries, protocols, and algorithms summarize care for, but not limited to cardiac arrest, stroke, allergic reaction, near-drowning, abdominal injuries, and pediatric emergencies. Market: For serious EMT-B's who want to go above and beyond the D.O.T. requirements.

This workbook accompanies Prehospital Emergency Care, 11th Edition.

This book presents the most complete information available from elementary facts to instructions for effective improvisation vital to successful first aid. Primarily focusing on the most common accidents and emergencies a first-aider is likely to encounter, this book is extremely useful to anyone who practices first aid, emergency care, and CPR. Presents a clear, expanded version of legal duty, including guidelines on how to avoid legal liability, culpability for negligence or failure to act. Incorporates a newly added section on how first-aiders can protect themselves from injury and infection in the course of providing care. Features an entirely new section on dental emergencies, providing a thorough understanding of how to treat common dental problems and the importance of providing immediate care. Provides a concise description of body systems, including a succinct summary of what constitutes an emergency involving each system and how to assess; includes comprehensive information on personal protection from the risks posed by blood and air-borne diseases and what to do at an accident scene. For those who perform first aid, emergency care, and/or CPR.

The 7th edition of this popular First Responder title, takes students beyond national standards while retaining the easy-to-read, step-by-step format that has made it a favorite for over a decade. Comprehensive coverage includes a variety of topics, including material that goes beyond the DOT curriculum and airway and circulation chapters that fully comply with the newly revised AHA Guidelines. New features, enrichment materials will enhance the clear and in-depth coverage that has been this titles trademark. New material has been added on terrorism, industrial emergencies, and special patients, as well as a new chapter on Geriatric Emergencies. A new special feature "First Responder Flash" highlights key information. First Responder students and professionals.

Abstract: Basic aspects of nutrition, particularly overnutrition common in Western society, are explored for health professionals to help clarify traditional and popular dietary concerns and to suggest diet and health improvement methods. Nutrient requirements, sources, and utilization are discussed in relation to current nutritional concerns, including food labeling, vegetarianism, the diet-disease relationship, and consumption of sugar, fiber, caffeinated and alcoholic beverages, and food additives. Psychological, sociological, and etiological aspects of overweight and obesity are discussed. Fads and fallacies of dieting are exposed, and a sound weight loss and control approach is offered, based on decreasing caloric intake, increasing exercise, and modifying behavior patterns. Nutrient content of foods, teaching ideas, education sources, and suggested menus for various types of daily nutrient intake also are included. (cj).