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Advanced medical life support assessment for the medical patient -- Respiratory disorders -- Cardiovascular disorders -- Shock -- Neurological disorders -- Abdominal disorders -- Endocrine and metabolic disorders -- Infectious diseases -- Environmental disorders -- Toxicology, hazardous materials, and weapons of mass destruction -- Sepsis -- Medication/pharmacology.

An authoritative book on one of the most fundamental and contentious issues for health care professionalsFully updated to include provisions of the Mental Capacity Act (April 2007); the latest policy on advance directives and the impact of the Human Rights Act on such decisionsProvides guidance on the appointment of welfare attorneys to make health care decisions once capacity is lostDiscusses recent cases, including Burke, baby MB, and WyattWritten by medical ethics professionals in consultation with the appropriate medical and legal experts and in agreement with the General Medical Council's

Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) is the coursebook for the Advanced Life Support Group's internationally taught training for health care professionals responding to major incidents. The practical approach employed in MIMMS has proved an invaluable aid to both civilian and military doctors, nurses and paramedics working in disaster management worldwide. The third edition has been fully revised to make MIMMS appropriate for the 21st century, with greater emphasis on human factors, a more structured approach to medical management, and new chapters on:Hazardous materialsIncide

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- UK working group -- International reference group -- Contributors to fourth edition -- Contributors to previous editions -- Foreword to fourth edition -- Preface to fourth edition -- Preface to first edition -- Acknowledgements -- Contact details and further information -- How to use your textbook -- Part I Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What is a major incident? -- 1.2 Classification of major incidents -- 1.3 Summary -- CHAPTER 2 The structured approach to major incidents -- 2.1 Preparing for a major incident -- 2.2 The structured response to a major incident -- 2.3 Recovering from a major incident -- 2.4 Summary -- Part II Organisation -- CHAPTER 3 Health service structure and roles -- 3.1 Command and control -- 3.2 Ambulance services organisation -- 3.3 Medical services organisation -- 3.4 Command and control of the health service response -- 3.5 Ambulance services at a major incident -- 3.6 Ambulance service key roles -- 3.7 Medical services at a major incident -- 3.8 Medical command appointments -- 3.9 Clinical staff at the scene -- 3.10 Summary -- CHAPTER 4 Emergency service organisation and roles -- 4.1 Organisation -- 4.2 Role of the police at a major incident -- 4.3 Role of the fire and rescue service at a major incident -- 4.4 Role of the maritime and coastguard services at a major incident -- 4.5 Summary -- CHAPTER 5 Support service organisation and roles -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Specific services -- 5.3 Summary -- Part III Preparation -- CHAPTER 6 Planning -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Guidance -- 6.3 General principles -- 6.4 Incorporating the structured approach into the response -- 6.5 Recovery -- 6.6 Summary -- CHAPTER 7 Personal equipment -- 7.1 Minimum clothing -- 7.2 Additional items -- 7.3 Summary -- CHAPTER 8 Medical equipment -- 8.1 Introduction.

Fundamentals -- Beginning-of-life issues -- Reproductive technologies -- Contraception, sterilization, and natural family planning -- End-of-life issues -- Cooperation with evil -- Respect for the body -- The ten commandments for health care professionals and patients.

Medical and Psychiatric Comorbidity Over the Course of Life reviews the comorbidity of mental and chronic physical syndromes in an epidemiological and life course context, offering fresh insights and identifying crucial clues to the etiology and nosological distinctiveness of both physical and mental disorders.

A medical doctor and political activist traces his life from India at partition to graduate work and practice in the UK and America, comparing health standards, economic well-being, race relations, and the political atmosphere on three continents during the socially-conscious 1960s and later under bare-knuckle capitalism. He includes a brief synopsis of Pakistan's tumultuous history, including the role played by superpowers with an interest in the region.

For over thirty years, David F. Kelly has worked with medical practitioners, students, families, and the sick and dying to confront the difficult and often painful issues that concern medical treatment at the end of life. In this short and practical book, Kelly shares his vast experience, providing a rich resource for thinking about life's most painful decisions. Kelly outlines eight major issues regarding end-of-life care as seen through the lens of the Catholic medical ethics tradition. He looks at the distinction between ordinary and extraordinary means; the difference between killing and a

Introduction and overview of trauma care and PHTLS -- Scene management and primary assessment -- Airway -- Breathing, ventilation, and oxygenation -- Circulation -- Secondary survey -- Disability : traumatic brain injury -- Disability : spinal trauma -- Special considerations -- Summation.

"Up to the 1970s, most Americans died swiftly: of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, or in accidents. But in the past three decades, medical advances have extended our lives and changed the way we die. Journalist Kiernan reveals the disconnect between how patients want to live the end of life--pain-free, functioning mentally and physically, surrounded by family and friends--and how the medical system continues to treat the dying--with extreme interventions, at immense cost, and with little regard to pain, human comforts, or even the stated wishes of patients and families.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Credibility -- Confidence -- Rapport -- Expectation -- Directives (An Overview) -- Images -- Believability -- Literal Interpretation -- Enthusiasm -- Managing "Pain" ("Discomfort") -- Stopping Bleeding -- Cardiovascular Emergencies -- Hypnotic Treatment for Burns -- Respiratory Diseases -- Anaphylaxis -- Childbirth and Pediatric Emergencies -- Psychological Emergencies -- Self-Hypnosis -- The Planetary Emergency.

This is the course book for a new ALSG course on preparation for and medical management of major incidents within the hospital. It will be a companion volume to MIMMS, which deals with the prehospital situation, and will meet an ever increasing need as natural and other disasters affect hospital staff and administrators. The course aims to provide a systematic approach for all personnel who would be involved in managing a major incident in the hospital. This title is now available for the PDA, powered by Skyscape - to buy your copy Click here

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- About the contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: a genealogy of medical materialities -- Part I Flesh and fluids -- 2 Of flesh and mesh: time, materiality, and health in surgical recovery -- 3 From attitudes to materialities: understanding bowel control for colorectal cancer patients in London -- 4 The life course of labia: female genital cutting in Somaliland -- 5 On 'being the problem': the ontological choreography of the infertile male -- Part II Infrastructures of care -- 6 Blood, lungs, and passports -- 7 'Time for tea': tea practices and care in a British hospice -- 8 'Regenerative medicine event': cells, soybeans, and a repurposing of ritual in Japan -- 9 The form that flattens -- Part III Health publics -- 10 On becoming a vegetable: life, nature, and healing for a hylozoic cult -- 11 Making the body local: the suburban shitizen -- 12 Of smoke and unguents: health affordances of sacred materiality -- 13 How photographs 'empower' bodies to act differently -- Part IV Responses -- Response: medical materialities, (post)genomics, and the biosocial -- Response: medical materialities, collections, and artefacts -- Index