Product Description: Prehospital care is a growing area in medicine, and emergency treatments are becoming more sophisticated as the potential to save lives grow. The fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on nuclear and biological emergencies...read more

Guides the decision-making process using a system of assessment that identifies those patients who need immediate life saving treatment and those who need hospital care. This book connects emergency care with the community and secondary care and places it in the context of patient care pathways.

Patient transfer is becoming more frequent as specialist departments are being concentrated in the larger hospitals. There is a need for information on how to handle patients in these eventualities. This book gives a systematic approach for the safe transportation of patients between hospitals.

Product Description: Accurate analysis of blood gases is vital to give information on a patient's respiratory and circulation state as well as the adequacy of resuscitation. This book guides the reader, with the help of clarifying cartoons, through the basic principles and a new and easy to grasp system of interpretation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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As the South African government plots the 'accidental' death of an imprisoned black activist, the People's Congress hires mercenary Major Patrick Marriner to foil their sinister efforts

When scion Robert Lombard returns to his family's Algerian wine plantation following World War II, his love for Annie, a British girl, and his friendship with Mohamed, an Arab, become entangled in the violence of a new war