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An essential guide to important lessons in trauma surgery and critical care, First to Cut serves as a valuable companion to the famed Emergency War Surgery textbook. The introduction states: The first goal of this book is simple; to save lives. As all deployed combat surgeons know combat trauma is...

This is a user-friendly, step-by-step approach to the challenging clinical topic of Arrhythmia and 12-lead EKG interpretation in the Critical Care and Acute Care settings. Thoroughly researched and authored by nurses for nurses, the guide provides detailed and comprehensive concepts of Arrhythmia...

Written by an experienced groupworker and academic, this book promotes greater knowledge and understanding of groupwork and group processes, particularly in social work and social care settings. Incorporating both theory and practice, it provides a practical guide to those considering groupwork, and...

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Department of Social Work at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, this innovative and exciting book traces the growth of the social work mission and the development of vanguard social work programs at Mount Sinai. Leading social work educators...

You don't need to suffer from bad skin any longer. Like anything else in your body, caring for your skin will improve its health. There are a myriad of methods for caring for skin, and they range from mild to extreme. The advice in this piece can help guide your skin care decisions. IF you...

It is estimated that in the decade between 2010-2020, there will be 3.2 million additional jobs created in health care. Many of these jobs require no more than a high school diploma or less. If you, along with millions of other people that would like to make health care a career and are seeking these...

For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment...

Inside Radical Loving Care distills the essence of Erie Chapman's three previous books into a single slender volume. It equips caregivers with stories of powerful examples and all the tools they need to live Love, not fear, every day and night. Execute the ideas in this book and your life and...

As we get older there are few things more frightening than forgetting someone's name or where you left your house keys. For millions of us the first few times this happens we fear we're experiencing the onset of dementia. Many of us worry when there's no need to. Understanding the signs and symptoms...

Prepare yourself for this raw and honest account of the author's experience of caring for his mother in his home for ten years, including end of life sequences involved. The grips of Alzheimer's disease and the transition through the dying process are depicted here in detail. This emotional testimony...

Intensive Care Unit Manual is a practical, hands-on, how-to manual that covers the full spectrum of conditions encountered in the ICU, guiding you step-by-step from your initial approach to the patient through diagnosis and treatment. Compact, affordable, and comprehensive, the ICU Manual puts all...

This volume explores how the scarce resources of intensive care units should be distributed. Three hypothetical patients, each with a different chance of survival, desire intensive care. A multinational panel of experienced critical care physicians offers assessments of the patients' conditions and...

Discover the secrets to having naturally beautiful skin...Your skin is the largest organ of your body. It makes sense that we should invest a lot of time in caring for it. After all, we have it for life.Every day billions of people world-wide are falling for the marketing ploys of companies...

Those providing services to older persons must develop intervention strategies that are relevant to their clients’life experiences. Aging Families and Use of Proverbs for Values Enrichment presents administrators, practitioners, educators, researchers, and students with intervention models that...