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ABC of prehospital emergency medicine / edited by Tim Nutbeam, Matt Boylan, Caroline Leech, Clare Bosanko.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2023Edition: 7th editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781119698333
  • 9781119698340
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: ABC of prehospital emergency medicineLOC classification:
  • RC86.8 .S95 2018
Action note:
  • Cataloging Notes: 20240520 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199
Summary: "Prehospital care is the term given to the provision of medical care outside of the hospital or alternative fixed healthcare setting. In the developed world, the provision of prehospital care is usually the responsibility of a regional ambulance or emergency medical service(EMS). A number of agencies may operate in support of the ambulance service including air ambulance charities, private ambulance companies, rescue organizations (e.g. mountain rescue, coastguard), the voluntary aid societies (e.g. St Johns or Red Cross) and volunteer immediate care practitioners (e.g. British Association of Immediate Medical Care, BASICS). Medical cover of sporting and mass gathering events, extreme and wilderness medicine, disaster and humanitarian medicine, and transfer and retrieval medicine all involve the provision of prehospital medical care"-- Provided by publisher.
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Book Book AMREF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (AMIU) LIBRARY General Stacks Non-fiction RC86.8 .S95 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 18642

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Prehospital care is the term given to the provision of medical care outside of the hospital or alternative fixed healthcare setting. In the developed world, the provision of prehospital care is usually the responsibility of a regional ambulance or emergency medical service(EMS). A number of agencies may operate in support of the ambulance service including air ambulance charities, private ambulance companies, rescue organizations (e.g. mountain rescue, coastguard), the voluntary aid societies (e.g. St Johns or Red Cross) and volunteer immediate care practitioners (e.g. British Association of Immediate Medical Care, BASICS). Medical cover of sporting and mass gathering events, extreme and wilderness medicine, disaster and humanitarian medicine, and transfer and retrieval medicine all involve the provision of prehospital medical care"-- Provided by publisher.

Cataloging Notes: 20240520 STAMIU-0199STAMIU-0199

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