First Aid Training & Burn Treatment Books
1. The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety Handbook, Paperback, Publisher: Little, Brown
This book has instructions for dealing with all sorts of emergencies from cuts and burns to electrocutions and strokes. Use together with your first aid kit for on-the-spot reference.
2. FastAct Pocket First Aid Guide by Brad Rickey, Kurt Duffens, Spiral-bound
A unique pocket-sized first aid guide that includes visual guides, four-color graphics, color-coded references and easy to read instructions. This book provides quick references for emergencies ranging from bites and stings to CPR and choking. The book can be stored in your glove compartment, purse, day planner, RV, boat etc. New updated edition includes American Heart Association's Emergency Cardiac Care update guidelines for CPR and choking.
3. The Management of Wounds and Burns, Jim Wardrope, Paperback, Oxford University Press
Wound management forms the bulk of the work in Accident and Emergency practice. Although most of these wounds will appear minor and the treatment straightforward for many injuries, the consequences of improper assessment or management can be very serious. Disabling injury may be overlooked, and life threatening infections can follow inappropriate treatment. Accident and Emergency staff must be prepared to begin initial assessment and treatment while surgical help arrives. This new edition provides practical and authoritative information on all aspects of wound and burn care, taking the reader from initial assessment to the treatment of specific injuries. The care and legal aspects of life-threatening wounds are covered, together with anaesthesia, surgical techniques of wound care, wound infection, and injuries to the hand, face, neck, chest, and abdomen. Throughout , the authors present their guidelines concisely and lucidly, with detailed advice on anatomy, medication, and treatment techniques.
4. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2005, Paperback, McGraw-Hill Medical
The ultimate resource for USMLE Step 1 preparation! Published annually, this is the only student-to-student review book that provides facts and strategies from medical students who had previously taken the exam. The book contains over 900 frequently tested facts and mnemonics, 24 pages of high-yield color images similar to those on the exam, more than 100 clinical vignettes, and a completely revised rating of over 300 basic science review products.
5. Share your own customer images Look inside this book Wilderness Medicine, Beyond First Aid, 5th Edition, by William Forgey, Paperback, Globe Pequot
You and your group are on the adventure of a lifetime, far from civilization, surrounded by wilderness. Someone gets hurt or sick. What do you do? With Dr. William Forgey's comprehensive Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid in hand, you can recognize, assess, and treat many kinds of medical emergencies. This illustrated text is essential reading for anyone from trip leaders, guides, and search and rescue groups to EMTs, paramedics, and physicians who must provide immediate care when access to a medical facility is difficult or impossible. Learn how to survey, assess, and stabilize the victim and the medical situation, what questions to ask to gain necessary vital information, how to manage physical symptoms as well as care for wounds and orthopedic injuries and much more.
6. 5-minute First Aid Life-saving Skills, British Red Cross Society, Paperback, Hodder Arnold H&S
This could be the most important book you will ever read. Five-Minute First Aid Life-Saving Skills provides the reader with invaluable information and advice that will equip him/her with the skills needed to deal with an emergency, whether this be unconsciousness, cardiac arrest, major blood loss, choking or, most importantly, how to save a life. Written by the experts in first aid, this book offers an easy and engaging way to gain the skills and confidence needed to apply first aid to anyone who may need it. Presented in short sections that each take just five minutes to read and learn, this book will enable you to make a difference in an emergency and prepare you for common first aid situations that are relevant to you. By reading this book you will gain and develop your first aid skills and discover your ability to save a life.
7. First Aid Manual, St Andrews' Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross St John Ambulance, Paperback, Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
The official training manual for all three first aid providers, offering emergency procedures for everyone at home, at work, or at leisure. This edition is fully restructured and redesigned with bright colour-coded chapters for easy access on all the latest information on procedures. It includes a 32-page booklet with a quick-reference guide to first-aid emergencies.
8. The New International Webster's Pocket Medical and First Aid Dictionary of the English Language, by Trident Press International Staff, Hardcover - 2001
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