Wilderness First Responder is a comprehensive text for the recognition, treatment, and prevention of backcountry emergencies, written by wilderness expert Buck Tilton with more than a dozen medical professionals. Thoroughly updated and revised, this guide represents more than a century and a half of combined experience in wilderness medicine, rescue, and education. It is essential reading for wilderness educators, trip leaders, guides, search and...

Professional tools are used every day all around us. Help early readers interested in tools learn more about EMT's Tools! This image-packed title features colorful pictures, simple sentences, and labeled photos of tools used by EMTs. Understanding each tool is made easy with simple definitions and in-use photos that will show kids how an ambulance, gurney, defibrillator and oxygen mask works. Get ready to work on learning with the More Professional...

"After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his past life and would-be future at his job, including contemporaries of his estranged father, a man he knows little about, serving time at Holmesburg prison for the statutory...

This title takes a look into the education, career, and daily tasks of paramedics, and how they help in emergency situations.

This title takes a look into the education, career, and daily tasks of emergency room doctors, and how they help in emergency situations. This series is at a Level 2 and is written specifically for emerging readers. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Dash! is an imprint of Abdo Zoom, a division of ABDO.--

"James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, #1 bestselling coauthors of Walk in My Combat Boots, powerfully present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives every day: E.R. Nurses. Around the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. You have never heard their true stories. Not like this. From big-city and small-town hospitals. From behind the scenes. From...

A Day In The Life Of An Ambulance Driver is a collection of stories told from the viewpoint of the author during his time as an EMT, paramedic, and Navy Corpsman. These stories are based on real life situations and told with attention to detail in an attempt to help the reader visualize the experience for him or her self.

Presents a unique view of social problems and conflicts over urban space from the cab of an ambulance.While we imagine ambulances as a site for critical care, the reality is far more complicated. Social problems, like homelessness, substance abuse, and the health consequences of poverty, are encountered every day by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) workers. Written from the lens of a sociologist who speaks with the fluency of a former Emergency Medical...

When Katie's grandmother trips and breaks her ankle, Katie learns about the importance of paramedics to her neighborhood.