Surge Hospitals: Providing Safe Care in Emergencies
By the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 2006
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Standing Together: An Emergency Planning Guide for America’s Communities
By the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. 2005
Continue reading →Oxford Handbook of Pre-Hospital Care
Ian Greaves Keith Porter 2007 The publication of an Oxford Handbook has to be a defining moment in the recognition of the specialty of Pre-hospital Care, which has existed, often unsung and practiced by a relatively small number of enthusiasts, for many years. This handbook joins a comprehensive list of publications covering almost forty very diverse specialities.
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Mervyn Singer Andrew R. Webb 2009 This new edition embraces the many recent developments occurring in critical care medicine, in particular the burgeoning number of randomised, multicentre trials and the increasing understanding of underlying basic science mechanisms. While not necessarily providing definitive answers, these studies have contributed significantly to our knowledge base and highlighted both the complexity of critical illness […]
Continue reading →Oxford Desk Reference Respiratory Medicine
Nick Maskell Ann Millar 2009 This book aims to act as a rapid reference for busy health professionals and covers the main respiratory disorders that would be encountered both in the inpatient and outpatient setting. Each section has been written by an expert in a particular field and is focused on providing a clear, concise clinical message on […]
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Carl Waldmann Neil Soni Andrew Rhodes 2008 Intensive care medicine is an evolving speciality in which the amount of available information is growing daily and increasingly, textbooks refl ect this in terms of their size. Size and immediate clinical utility are often inversely related and ‘bottom line’ practicality is drowned in comprehensive discussion.
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John Stradling Andrew Stanton Najib Rahman Annabel Nickol Helen Davies 2010
Continue reading →Oxford American Handbook of Disaster Medicine
Edited by Robert A. Partridge, Lawrence Proano, David Marcozzi 2012 Disasters happen—anywhere, anytime, and frequently. In the United States, in response to numerous recent man-made and natural catastrophes, disaster preparation efforts have become widespread. Over time, they have also become more complex and broader in scope.
Continue reading →Management of limb injuries during disasters and conflicts
ALAN KAY, HAYDAR ALWASH (etc.) 2016 In 2013, the WHO EMT Initiative published the Classification and Minimum Standards for Foreign Medical Teams in Sudden Onset Disasters in response to concerns from the humanitarian community that the world had largely failed in its efforts to provide life- and limb-saving care following the Haiti earthquake and Pakistan floods. Many of the teams […]
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Heidi L. Frankel ● Bennett P. deBoisblanc Editors 2010 Since the establishment of the first intensive care unit (ICU) in 1953 by Danish anesthesiologist Bjorn Ibsen at Copenhagen’s university hospital, critical care medicine has evolved from a specialty focused primarily on mechanical ventilation of polio patients into a complex multidisciplinary specialty that provides care for a broad range of […]
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