Accident and emergency medicine Books

Attachment-Focused Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents brings together two powerful treatment directions that exponentially expand the knowledge and skills available to child and adolescent trauma therapists. The book provides theoretical...

Vicarious Trauma and Disaster Mental Health focuses on the clinician and the impact of working with disaster survivors. Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, mass shootings, terrorism and other large-scale catastrophic events have increased in the last decade...

Aktuell ist eine Digitalisierung der Unterrichte geforderter denn je. Die Schülerinnen und Schüler in der Ausbildung zum Operationstechnischen Assistenten sind klar der Gruppe der Digital Natives zu zuordnen. Ein Umgang mit Digitalen Medien erfolgt meist...

Suddenly Peter grabbed center stage. This memory is vivid. My parents went out for dinner. I sat cross-legged on the couch doing homework, playing an Elvis Presley record. I looked at him, now twelve years. He was hunched over a pile of clothes in the...

The purpose of this book is to help parents understand more about common medical conditions that affect their children. This book explains in detail the background, signs and symptoms, and management of several common medical conditions that affect...

This is the story of one Mom and one very special family that had born into it one very special little girl who at this writing is waiting for a multi-organ transplant so that she can visit London and Paris, and so that she can see the world beyond the...

Do you feel stressed all day? Do you want to start feeling better, even if you’re completely overwhelmed?It all seemed routine, but something was building.Coming into your office, your boss adds another project to your plate and moves up the...

The intention of my art therapy practice is to create a safe place for clients to experience and creatively express their emotions, as well as to cultivate new opportunities for navigating life. Art has been an outlet for me during turbulent times,...

Bridging Responses is a resource for front-line staff who work with women in health care, literacy, corrections, housing and community services. This book offers information and tools to help recognize responses to post-traumatic stress in women's...

Después de sobrevivir a un secuestro y violación, una joven comenzó su viaje de mochilera por el mundo, pero sus recuerdos y adicciones intentaron detenerla. En el camino, fue capaz de hacer nuevas conexiones, encontrar la sanación y aprender a valerse...

Trauma has been able to manifest itself as a weapon of mass destruction in the lives of people, gaining momentum over the years due to more empirical research. Exceptionally layered and multifaceted, trauma has many different components that many of us...

Studies in Psychology is a book written by Louis N. Wilson and published in 1917. The book is a collection of essays and articles on various topics in the field of psychology. The author covers a range of subjects, including the psychology of religion,...

The book covers various scenarios when errors, biases and systemic barriers prevail in emergency medicine, discusses their impact, and then offers solutions to mitigate their undesired outcomes. The process of clinical reasoning in emergency medicine is...

غوص في أعماق عالم الميكروبات المُذهل! "سيكولوجية الوباء" ليس مجرد كتاب علميّ جافّ، بل رحلة شيّقة تُعرّفك على أسرار الكائنات الدقيقة التي تُحيط بنا، من البكتيريا إلى الفيروسات والفطريات. ستكتشف كيف تُهاجم هذه الكائنات أجسامنا، وكيف تُدافع مناعتنا عنها،...

This book is intended to be an aid to all who are concerned with assessing vision and handling day-to-day problems during the growth of infants and children. It is directed mainly to com­ munity doctors, health visitors, school...

The expense of critical care and emergency medicine, along with widespread expectations for good care when the need arises, pose hard moral and political problems. How should we spend our tax d'ollars, and who should get help?...

Dr. G. M. Woerlee is well known in my department both as a clinician and teacher. Years ofexperience have taught him that the problems discussed here have as yet not been treated in this way in any single work. In my opinion...

Cardiovascular diseases are the most important causes of death in the world today. In adults, the most frequent heart disease is acute myocardial infarction, which can lead to sudden death. To prevent these diseases we need to...

The terrorist act with sarin gas in the Tokyo underground and the case with the spread of anthrax spores through the U.S. postal system stimulated the development of orga- zation of fight against terrorism on a national and global level. The goal of this...

Un libro que te hará volver a vivir en equilibrio emocional, con el que conseguirás crear paz en tu mente, sanar tus heridas emocionales y calmar tu cuerpo.La mayoría de nosotros cargamos una mochila emocional, fruto de las experiencias de vida que nos...

Heal, Grow, and Thrive: A Complete Guide to Emotional RecoveryDiscover a transformative workbook designed for anyone navigating the complex journey of trauma recovery. This thoughtfully crafted guide combines practical exercises, therapeutic techniques,...

This book is not a learned treatise. Its purpose is to render practical instruction to all those physicians. surgeons, adminis­ trators, and paramedical personnel who have to act in war or disaster situations. As a manual it is...

Intensive care in childhood is a relatively new field of medicine. Due to major differences in physiology, many disciplines are involved in the care of the critically ill child. Apart from specific disease patterns, morbidity...

Nitric Oxide (NO) is a free radical, a gas, and a pluripotent product of mammalian cells. Only a few years ago, scientific discussions of NO were largely held in the context of the chemistry of air pollution. Now, however, the...

This monograph focuses on splanchnic function in health and disease. It represents a distillate of the communication that took place at the First International Symposium of Applied Physiol­ ogy of the Peripheral Circulation,...

This book concentrates on problems generated by acute care in severely traumatized patients during the first 24 hours after injury. During this hectic period, highly complicated problems have to be solved at the site of the...

Over the last 10 years the syndrome of severe acute renal failure has progressively changed in its epidemiology. It is now most frequently seen in critically ill patients, typically in the context of sepsis and multiorgan...

Sepsis and Innovative Treatment: The Odyssey R. C. Bone The Odyssey by Homer, dates back to the 8th century, B. C. [1]. It is a great epic adventure of Odysseus's dramatic journey from Troy back home to Ithaca. Odysseus...

Seit dem Erseheinen des Stoffweehselbandes del' 4. Auflage hat die Er­ forsehung del' "inborn errors of metabolism" (GARROD) derart groBe Fortsehritte gemaeht, daB bei del' vorliegenden Neuauflage mehrere Bande notwendig sind,...

The science of neuroanaesthesia and neurointensive care is fascinating, and the amounts of experimental and clinical studies are overwhelming. Surely, everyone can surf Medline and other database systems in order to get...

The pathophysiology of sepsis can be regarded as a series of steps, beginning with the invasion of normally sterile tissue by microbes and the elaboration of various pro-inflammatory mediators. The final common pathway is often...

Researchers from many disciplines, with both basic and clinical perspectives, came together in this volume to review and debate issues pertaining to the investigation and control of tissue oxygenation in acute medicine, as well...

The yearbook compiles the most recent, widespread developments of experimental and clinical research and practice in one comprehensive reference book. The chapters are written by well recognized experts in the field of...

Written by an intensivist familiar with ultrasound, this book describes a new clinical tool: ultrasound for the intensive care and emergency physician. It specifically details findings of immediate clinical relevance throughout...

Including comprehensive coverage of health disparities commonly encountered in pediatric and adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, Achieving Respiratory Health Equality in the United States provides a definitive reference...

This book addresses earthquakes, with a special focus on the Ghorka earthquake, which struck parts of central Nepal in April 2015. Drawing on this disastrous event, it closely examines various aspects of earthquakes in contributions prepared by...