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"Words are the physicians of the mind diseased."
- Aeschylus
(525 BC - 456 BC),
Prometheus Bound
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ZIN Product Number: 10013095
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 900 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071351426
Release Date: Jan 12, 2001
| |  | | | In Brief
The defining book for clinicians practicing outside of the United States. This comprehensive text addresses the practice, education, and administration of emergency medical care internationally. This reference will be of practical value to health practitioners working in a variety of health care settings overseas. The text draws from experts in the fields of international health and international emergency medicine. Each section addresses common issues and disease entities, with emphasis on the management of illnesses in less developed countries. The book provides guidelines for evaluating community needs, implementing preventive medicine, assessing refugee health needs, and then discussing the impact of cultural issues on these topics.
| | | | From The Publisher
* The defining book for physicians and other health care workers practicing outside the US
* Provides guidelines for evaluating community needs,implementing preventive medicine,assessing refugee health situations,and dealing with the impact of cultural issues
* Also includes walk-throughs of common emergent situations including infectious disease and trauma management,and discusses travel preparaiton and clinic set-up Rapid economic and urban growth in countries around the world has spawned an urgent need for the immediate delivery of effective emergency care. Emergent Field Medicine is the definitive answer to this need,offering models,methods,and leading-edge analysis to health care professionals working in medically underserved and developing regions. This landmark text brings you a complete program for defining and delivering emergency health care any place in the world.
Based on the experience,research,and knowledge of the internationally respected expert authors,Emergent Field Medicine provides need-to-know information on establishing medical and surgical emergency programs,even in areas where there have previously been no doctors. This thorough and indispensable guidebook features:
* Never-before-available expert blueprints for building emergency care programs in medically underserved areas of the world
* Prioritizing guidelines that ease stress on health care workers and simplify decision-making
* Effective,efficient suggestions for the best use of resources
* Strategies for tailoring emergency care to local needs,cultures,climates,and special circumstances such as refugee situations
* Step-by-step plans for upgrading existing emergencyprograms
* Specific help with a wide range of emergencies from trauma to women's issues and dental problems
* Practical guidance on meeting needs from public health education to assessing nutrition and establishing a field laboratory
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VanRooyen, Michael J., MD, MPH; Kirsch, Thomas D., MD, MPH; Clem, Kathleen, MD; Holliman, C. James, MD
| |  | | | | Preface | | | Ch. 1 | Public and Community Health | 1 | | Ch. 2 | Health Education Techniques | 35 | | Ch. 3 | Refugee Health Needs | 51 | | Ch. 4 | Culture and Health | 77 | | Ch. 5 | Field Assessment of General Health and Nutrition | 91 | | Ch. 6 | Adult Resuscitation | 111 | | Ch. 7 | Adult Emergencies and Illnesses | 155 | | Ch. 8 | Adult Infectious Diseases | 219 | | Ch. 9 | Tropical Infectious Diseases | 283 | | Ch. 10 | Pediatric Emergencies | 329 | | Ch. 11 | Pediatric Infectious Diseases | 359 | | Ch. 12 | Gynecology and Women's Health | 397 | | Ch. 13 | Obstetrics | 445 | | Ch. 14 | Trauma Management | 479 | | Ch. 15 | Orthopedic Trauma | 529 | | Ch. 16 | Wound Management | 551 | | Ch. 17 | Dermatology | 573 | | Ch. 18 | Anesthesia and Pain Management | 609 | | Ch. 19 | Toxicology | 637 | | Ch. 20 | Environmental Illnesses | 669 | | Ch. 21 | Ophthalmology and Ear, Nose, and Throat | 699 | | Ch. 22 | Dental Emergencies | 717 | | Ch. 23 | The Field Laboratory | 757 | | Ch. 24 | Protecting Yourself: Traveling Healthy | 803 | | Appendices | 819 | | Index | 875 |
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Medical, Emergency Medicine, Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical Services, Medical / Nursing, Health Care Delivery, Internal Medicine
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