BMJ Books - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)
ISBN: 978-0-7279-1464-4
Corporate Author: Advanced Life Support Group
Pub. Date: November 2000 Availability: In print
Description: This text, based on the Advanced Life Support Group course, is a comprehensive guide which deals with the medical aspects of diagnosis and treatment of acute emergencies.
Contents: Part 1 Introduction: introduction; recognition of the medical emergency. Part 2 Structured approach: structured approach to the medical emergency; airway assesment; breathing assesment; circulation assessment; disability assesment; examination and history taking. Part 3 Presenting complaints: the patient with breathing difficulties; the patient with shock; the patient with chest pain; the patient with altered conscious level; the collapsed patient; the confused patient; the overdose patient; the patient with headache; the patient with abdominal pain; the patient with hot red legs and cold white ones; the patient with hot and/or swollen joints; the patient with rash. Part 4 Failures: respiratory failure; cardiac failure; hepatic failure; renal failure; brain failure. Part 5 Interpretation of emergency investigations: blood gas analysis; dysrhythmia recognition; chest x-ray interpretation; haematological investigations; biochemical investigations. Part 6 Special circumstances: the pregnant patient; the elderly patient; the immunocompromised patient; transportation of the seriously ill patient. Part 7 Practical procedures: practical procedures - airway and breathing; practical procedures - circulation; practical procedures - medical. Part 8 Appendices.
Review: This manual serves to exemplify an approach that is unique to emergency medicine - and even though there is no course available, it is a very useful text. SAMJ Forum
Advanced Cardiac Life Support - The Practical Approach 2nd ed.
Published by: Arnolds ISBN 0-412-71090-0
In its first edition, this book was used extensively on Advanced Cardiac Life Support courses to teach the safe and effective management of cardiac emergencies. The second edition fulfils the same role but also incorporates revisions from a professional educator as well as senior health care workers in five acute specialties. Users of this book will benefit from its clear style, the explanation given of cause and effect, the very practical approach taken to life support procedures and the insight offered into specialised situations.
BMJ Books - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)
ISBN: 0727918478
Corporate Author: Advanced Life Support Group
Pub. Date: 2005 Availability: In print
Description: This course book gives guidance on life-threatening emergencies in children. It incorporates subjects such as recognition of the seriously ill child, basic life support, shock, and the structured approach to the seriously injured child.
Review: An excellent book, should become a well-thumbed addition to the bench texts in any intensive care unit or accident department that accepts critically ill children. Journal of the RoyalCollege of Physicians.
BMJ Books - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3262-6
Corporate Author: Advanced Life Support Group
Pub. Date: 2004 Software
With over 900 pages of management including more than 500 clinical photographs, x rays, ECGs, this CD Rom contains information on the clinical management of neonatal and paediatric emergencies.
Also included are over 120 videos which demonstrate children experiencing emergency problems and receiving various life saving procedures, an essential element of the CD Rom as a training tool. There are algorithms for the management of emergencies throughout, as well as a formulary of emergency drugs.
A valuable resource to all who are dealing with this element of paediatric life support, this must have CD Rom covers emergencies relevant in both rich and poor countries.
BMJ Books - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)
ISBN: 978-0-7279-1542-9
Corporate Author: Manchester Triage Group
Pub. Date: 2005 Availability: In print
BMJ Books - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)
ISBN: 978-0-7279-1868-0
Corporate Author: Advanced Life Support Group
Pub. Date: August 2005 Availability: In print
Description: This is the course book for a new Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) course on preparation for and medical management of major incidents within the hospital. This book is a vital tool for all hospital workers that face the potential of having to manage any large scale emergency from the hospital. In an easy to use and highly adaptable ringbound format, it will be a companion volume to Major Incident Medical Management & Support: The Practical Approach at the scene (MIMMS) 2nd edition, which deals with the pre-hospital situation, and will meet an ever increasing need in this area for hospital staff in both clinical and non-clinical posts. The course aims to provide a systematic approach for all personnel who would be involved in managing a major incident in the hospital.
Contents: The epidemiology and incidence of major incidents; Are we ready for the next major incident?; The structured approach to the hospital response; Planning for major incidents; Major incident equipment; Training; The collapsible hierarchy concept; The clinical hierarchy; The nursing hierarchy; The management hierarchy; Declaring a major incident and activating the plan; The reception phase; Triage; The definitive care phase; The recovery phase; Incidents involving hazardous chemicals; Incidents involving a large number of burns; Incidents involving a large number of children.
BMJ Books - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)
ISBN: 978-0-7279-1868-0
Corporate Author: Advanced Life Support Group
Pub. Date: August 2005 Availability: In print
Description: Established as one of leading texts in major incident management, this title supports the MIMMS course that is the only international standard in major incident medical management. This edition is truly international concentrating on core generic principles that cross civilian-military and international boundaries. This book is a simple and practical guide to managing one of the most challenging situations in medicine - that of a multiple casualty incident. The approach has been taught around the world since its introduction in 1994, and has become integrated into civilian and military medical practice. In this new international edition, common principles can be enhanced by users themselves the local information boxes to make the text highly relevant to every reader.
Contents: Major incidents - a history and overview; Guidance and requirements; Outline response; The medical services; The Ambulance service; The Police; The Fire Service; Support services; Personal equipment; Medical equipment; Communications; Scene command and control; Health service command and control; Medical and nursing staff at the scene; The hospital response; Triage; Treatment; Transport; Responsibility for the dead; Radio use and voice procedure; Airway and breathing procedures; Circulatory procedures; Trauma procedures; Special incidents; Psychological aspects of disasters; Training.
Review: This book is outstanding value for money and is highly recommended to all of those interested in major incident management. Journal of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Managing Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma: The MOET Course Manual Second Edition
Kate Grady, Charlotte Howell and Charles Cox
ISBN: 978-1-904752-21-9
Published by: RoyalCollege of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists
Date: 2007
Managing any medical emergency requires a clear understanding of the principles involved and a systematic and logical progression through lifesaving and damage-limiting treatments. The difficulty in obstetrics is two-fold: firstly, being faced with very rare emergencies without much, if any, previous experience and, secondly, being exposed to fairly frequent but often unanticipated emergencies on the delivery suite.
To keep a clear head, coordinate staff and resources and effectively deal with each situation as it arises forms much of the art of the acute obstetric clinician. Such an approach requires practice, either at the bedside, or increasingly by 'drills and skills' training. No approach, however, is effective without core knowledge and solid understanding.
This manual is recommended reading prior to the Managing Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma (MOET) course. It provides essential anatomical, physiological and pathological information, which the authors use to explain basic logical principles of resuscitation and treatment.
Unfortunately, true clinical scenarios are not planned and are often unanticipated. It is therefore even more important that practicing clinicians are armed with this wealth of information.This manual contains essential knowledge for emergency obstetrics and trauma: it is based on sound principles, is easy to read and gives useful practical advice and management plans. No obstetric clinician should be without it.
BMJ Books - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7569-2
Corporate Author: Advanced Life Support Group
Pub. Date: 2008 Availability: In print
Description: This is a practical guide to the theoretical knowledge and skills that underpin good teaching. It is aimed particularly at teachers of life support courses, but the content is applicable to most teaching.
Contents: Part One Basic principles: lectures; skills teaching; workshops and discussions; role play and scenarios; assessment. Part Two Background information: adult learning; the domains of learning; giving feedback; asking questions; handling difficult learners; beyond teaching.
Review: The authors of this valuable handbook have years of experience in designing highly respected and successful courses, and they give sound, clear advice on how to organise your teaching and on the most effective methods of skills teaching. Divided into two sections, covering instructional techniques and key background themes involved in teaching and learning, there is also a reflective diary for the reader to assess their own teaching and chart their progress.
BMJ Books - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell) ISBN: 0727918524
Corporate Author: Advanced Life Support Group
Pub. Date: 2005 Availability: In print
Description: This text was written especially for prehospital staff and provides the information needed to deal with seriously ill and severely injured children before arrival at hospital. Emphasis is placed in as speedy a transportation to hospital as possible, while providing appropriate emergency care.
Based on the internationally recognised Advanced Paediatric Life Support and adapted by experienced prehospital medical practitioners, this is a comprehensive and authoritative guide for all those responsible for the prehospital emergency care of babies and children. Protocols are based on those of Advanced Paediatric Life Support ensuring a smooth transfer from prehospital to hospital care.
BMJ Books - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Wiley-Blackwell)
ISBN: 978-0-7279-1855-0
Corporate Author: Advanced Life Support Group
Pub. Date: 2006 Availability: In print
The safe transfer of all hospital patients, especially those who are critically ill, is of crucial importance, demanding organisational, as well as clinical skills.
Safe Transfer and Retrieval of Patients (STaR) is aimed at all health care workers involved with inter and intra-hospital transfers. It provides a much needed structured approach to transfer medicine, together with sound guidance on relevant clinical procedures.
The second edition has been extensively revised in line with new developments in transfer medicine. The book has been redesigned with five distinct sections covering:
· the principles of the STaR structured approach to transfers
· the management of the transfer or retrieval
· practical procedures related to transfer medicine
· an overview of clinical care during the assessment and stabilisation phases of transfer.
· the legal and safety aspects of transfers, specific differences in helicopter transfers and transfers involving children
A new chapter, the infectious or contaminated patient, has been added, in light of current concerns around the potential transfer of infection between patients and staff.
The major revisions to this STaR coursebook bring it into line with the latest thinking on patient transfers, making it an invaluable guide for anyone involved in this aspect of health care.