A climbing medicine and wilderness first aid guidebook from a team of proven expertsClimbing and mountaineering attracts millions of people around the world each year, but produces a unique set of challenges. The threat of danger is ever present, and professional medical help is often far away. Vertical Medicine Resources is a renowned climbing company providing medical training and consultation. In Vertical Aid, they have produced the most complete guide ...

This guide covers the key principals of nursing care procedures. This guide is a must for any nursing student or current nurse. It covers: Therapeutic communications, clean conditions, vital signs, wounds & wound care, urine collection, blood specimens, nutrition, documentation and much more!

First Aid Guide and Home Doctor - an illustrated survival guide with step-by-step instructions, techniques, explanation of medical tests, and a world-wide list of emergency phone numbers. An illustrated survival guide with step-by-step instructions, a world-wide list of emergency phone numbers, first aid techniques, and detailed description of what-to-do in over 60 medical emergency conditions. Audience:Intended for everyone interested in first aid. No previous knowledge of medicine is nec...

If you have confusing and unexplained breathing problems or your asthma has not responded to treatment, this book is for you. The Chronic Cough Enigma is written for people who have been coughing for months or years and cannot get useful answers from their doctors.More than 20 million Americans suffer from what is known as enigmatic chronic cough. This book provides insights from Dr. Jamie Koufman’s almost forty years of successfully managing thousands of long-suff...

CLICK HERE to download the sample chapter "Basic Care" from Medicine for Mountaineering* The best-selling backcountry medical guide of its kind* This edition includes new chapters on avalanche injuries, drowning, eye disorders, medical evacuations, and lightning* Provides expert information on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, plus medications, medical kits, and ...

Handbook of Veterinary Nursing presents essential guidance and helpful tips on developing and delivering high quality nursing care and skills.Fully updated, this easy-to-follow guide reflects recent changes to veterinary nursing qualifications, current terminology and drugs in use. The emphasis is on the importance of working methodically, using high quality procedures, to help the whole veterinary team ensure the most successful outcomes in animal care.Written in ...

This quick-reference, easy-to-follow guide makes essential wilderness medical knowledge easily accessible when you need it.Venturing into the wilderness involves a level of medical risk that traditional first aid doesn’t cover. This system-based, easy-to-follow guide assists the first aid provider when encountering most wilderness emergencies, from cold and heat concerns and blister treatments to high altitude illness and lightning injury prevention—and much more.

This book offers an excellent and comprehensive overview on the clinical use of fillers in aesthetic medicine that will assist both novice and advanced practitioners. Based on an evidence-based perspective, the book opens by describing the most common fillers, with information on their characteristics, efficacy and safety. The main part of the book then explains how to use fillers for the most frequent facial indications, such as the glabella, nasolabial folds, infraorbital hollow, nose, c...

Need to know how to correct hyponatremia, what about setting initial vent parameters? Are you familiar with RSI and ICP's. Critical Care Bedside Reference is loaded with this information and more including electrolyte replacement charts, acid base problems and metabolic disorders. Critical Care Bedside Reference contains the facts you need it is not a study guide. Who needs this book: Doctors, Nurses, medical students, nursing students - anyone who wants to perform at the peak of their pro...

Urinary Stones are small, solid stones which occur when salts or minerals in the urine become solid crystals inside the kidney.Urinary Stones are formed usually because of the accumulation of salts and minerals especially calcium in the urine.Usually the stones may be so small that they pass out through the urine without the knowledge of the patient.Some however become bigger due to accumulation of the salts and minerals and the concentration of the urine.Th...

Wound CareIn this course, you will study wound healing, wound care, contaminated wounds, and burns. Information you read in this course will aid you in maintaining and improving the health of a patient.This course is part of our Injuries and Emergencies series.Includes a questions and answers section at the end of each lesson.Full illustrations and diagrams included.Lessons:- Wound Healing and Wound Care- Contaminated Wounds- Bu...

* Meets the current standards of first aid care by the American Red Cross and the Wilderness Medical Society* Updated figures and drawings that illustrate essential first aid skills* Includes quick-reference boxes that summarize recognition and treatment of many first-aid problemsThis fifth edition gives you all the latest information on assessing and treating conditions you may encounter in the wild, from serious injuries such as dislocations and fractures to unexpec...