This practical book, written especially for pre-hospital staff, provides all the information needed to deal with children in life threatening situations before arriving at hospital. Complementing the best-selling Advanced Paediatric Life Support, this new edition reflects recent developments in prac[...]
Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine at a Glance offers healthcare students and trainees the essential theoretical knowledge and practical skills relevant to the provision of immediate care outside of the hospital. This concise text provides information on the principles of managing acutely unwell patien[...]
3 am call: "Mrs X has a blood sugar of 23. Come and deal with it." "I think my insulin pen is called something like Solostar." The respiratory doctors started high dose prednisolone, and the patient s glucose is 18. What is the blood glucose target for this patient admitted with an acute coronary sy[...]
Laurence Oldham describes his training as a dentist soon after the second world war and his practice in the Royal Air force during national Service. The tedium of General Dental Practice and frustration of an unsatisfying academic job in the north of England is contrasted with the inspiration of a [...]
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to[...]
The summer Berie was fifteen, she and her best friend Sils had jobs at Storyland in upstate New York, where Berie sold tickets to see the beautiful Sils portray Cinderella in a strapless evening gown. They spent their breaks smoking, joking, and gossiping. After work they followed their own reckless[...]
The must-have resource drawing together all aspects of hospital care of the horse and specialist techniques in equine medicine. Written by a team of over 30 international experts working at the cutting edge of equine medicine and surgery. The emphasis is on practical, easy-to-access information, wit[...]
* The first text to explore meeting the health care needs of people with a learning disability in acute settings. * Addresses the key areas of difficulty highlighted in current research and presents information in a very practical and user friendly format * Written by experts in the field .[...]
There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on...The Hostile Hospital - There are many pleasant things to read a[...]
Join Maisy, every toddler's best friend, for her first experience of going to hospital.
Fast Lane is a brand new reading intervention series developed for 8 to 14-year old struggling readers. It provides them with a variety of engaging, wonderfully illustrated stories and non-fiction texts which will appeal to even the most reluctant child reader. The series provides a complete program[...]
Topsy and Tim find fun and adventure in the real world. Their engaging stories are reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. In Topsy and Tim: Go to Hospital, Tim has fallen out of a tree and bumped his head. He's a little nervous about going to hospital, but he soon finds[...]
Pedro Pony is poorly, so Peppa Pig and her friends go with Madame Gazelle to visit Pedro in hospital. Pedro shows everyone what the hospital is like - the nurses, the doctor, and of course, the food. Peppa and her friends discover that the hospital isn't so scary after all.[...]
Join the teddies in this delightful sticker book as they visit their friend Benjamin and find out that going to the hospital doesn't have to be scary. With 250 stickers of doctors' and nurses' uniforms, a cast for Benjamin's broken arm, bandages and lots more, this is a friendly and reassuring peek [...]