First aid is a crucial step in a health emergency. It can be provided anywhere, but one should be aware of the correct first aid methods for conditions like cramps, bleeding injuries, accidental falls, burns and poisonous bites. This book offers tips to cope with accidents, and prevent the worsening of the condition.
From first-aid essentials to life-saving procedures, it's worth having someone who knows what they are doing to cope with life's little (and big) emergencies. This manual offers live-action step-by-step photographs that show you how to treat casualties and over 100 medical conditions and injuries, from minor burns to heart attacks.
Specifically designed for health care professionals, including allied health workers, nurses, and physicians, this robust training program teaches the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize and treat life-threatening respiratory and cardiac emergencies.
Features over 1100 photographs, artworks, diagrams and illustrations, commissioned to teach essential first-aid techniques and to show symptoms clearly for diagnosis. This work shows how to cope and care in an emergency - from splints, simple bandages and slings to resuscitation and life-saving technique.
From first-aid essentials to life-saving procedures, it's worth having someone who knows what they are doing to cope with life's little (and big) emergencies. This guide provides user-friendly step-by-steps that tell you how to treat more than 100 medical conditions and injuries from minor cuts and burns to choking and poisoning.
We know enough to lock up the Tylenol and rat poison and keep the kids away from antifreeze - but too many conscientious parents don't realise just how hazardous the house and close environs can be to kids. In total there are more than 70 poisons - from medicines, plants, creatures, and nature's foods - that are harmful to children.
From IBS to CPR, this book offers advice on home treatment for more than 150 common medical conditions. It provides tips and techniques on complementary remedies as well as conventional medical treatments. It also includes basic first aid procedures as well as a reference A-Z that covers over-the-counter drugs and natural remedies.
A guide to first aid that offers information for coping with emergencies and illnesses and for avoiding accidents in the home. With a section devoted to babies and children, it offers practical advice and techniques to equip you with the skills for administering basic first aid, as well as tips for minimizing the risk of accidents in the home.
Bringing all the first aid information you need, this guide provides information on the safest and easiest ways to prevent and deal with all kinds of problems and emergencies. It includes chapters that cover special life-saving techniques, problems specific to babies and small children, outdoor safety, safety tips for active hobbies, and more.
Published in association with the British Red Cross, this title gives you the knowledge you need if a baby or child falls ill or gets hurt. Using step-by-step photographs, it tells you how to treat babies and children for more than 100 medical conditions and injuries from minor cuts and burns to meningitis and asthma attacks.