American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Benjamin Gulli

Dwight Polk

Jeffrey Mitchell

Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response offers prehospital providers and mental health professionals a comprehensive resource on effectively handling behavioral emergencies ranging from large-scale disasters, to substance related emergencies, to psychotic disorders. This timely text also provides prehospital providers with suggestions for coping with job-related stress. The text incorporates well-known information-gathering tools such as SAMPLE and OPQRST, as well as two essential new tools for evaluating patients in a behavioral emergency: the SEA-3, a brief and simple assessment tool designed specifically for gathering information about a patients mental status, and the SAFER-R model, a simple, yet thorough tool designed to help the emergency responder devise a quick and easy treatment plan to helping those in crisis.

Prehospital Behavioral Emergencies and Crisis Response

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS),

American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP),

Over five million workers in health care related fields are at risk to exposure to bloodborne pathogens, such as the HIV virus and hepatitis B virus. Designed to meet the current Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) training requirements, Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens, Sixth Edition is designed to teach students and employees how to prepare for potential occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials. Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens, Sixth Edition also includes supplemental information on airborne pathogens, such as tuberculosis, and other unusua

Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens

Alton L. Thygerson

It's better to know First Aid and not need it than to need it and not know it. Everyone should be able to perform First Aid, since most people will eventually find themselves in a situation requiring it, either for another person or for themselves. First Aid, Fifth Edition is a dynamic course for those who want First Aid training without the CPR and AED component. Completely revised and updated, the Fifth Edition complies with the 2005 cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care (ECC) guidelines.

First Aid

CPR and AED teaches basic life support and addresses breathing and cardiac emergencies in caring for adults, children, and infants and use of AEDs.

CPR and AED

Jon R. Krohmer

Jeffrey Lindsey

Over five million workers in health care related fields are at risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens, such as the HIV virus and hepatitis B virus. Designed to meet the current OSHA training requirements, Preventing Infectious Diseases, Fifth Edition was designed to teach students how to prepare for potential occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials, and even has supplemental information on airborne pathogens such as tuberculosis.

Benjamin Gulli

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