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Deliver quality healthcare in the most challenging field conditions
"Dr Iserson has given us a most remarkable book. Many readers may be familiar with David Werner's lay healthworker book, Where There Is No Doctor; this new volume could be titled Where There Is a Doctor–But No Stuff. Drawing from his experience providing care in international, wilderness, and disaster settings, he has compiled an impressive collection of bare-bones equipment and work-around strategies to provide the best possible care in resource-poor settings. While presenting many creative examples, the purpose of the book is not to offer an exhaustive list of solutions to missing resource challenges but to inspire creativity in readers who may find themselves needing to improvise." -- Family Medicine
Full of practical clinical pearls and proven strategies, this indispensible guide shows you how to operate outside your comfort zone and devise effective treatment solutions when the traditional tools (medications, equipment, and staff) are unavailable―or when you need to provide care outside of your specialty. Improvised Medicine is a must for anyone who plans to work in global, disaster, or other resource-poor settings. FEATURES:
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<li>Simple-to-follow directions, diagrams, and illustrations describe practical techniques and the improvised equipment necessary to provide quality care during crises. </li>
<li>Contains improvisations in anesthesia and airway management, dentistry, gynecology/obstetrics, infectious disease/laboratory diagnosis, internal medicine, otolaryngology, pediatrics and malnutrition, orthopedics, psychiatry, and surgery.</li>
<li>Also includes basic disaster communication techniques, post-disaster forensics, a model hospital disaster plan, and innovative patient-transport methods.</li>
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LEARN HOW TO:
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<li>Make an endotracheal tube in seconds</li>
<li>Perform digital-oral and blind-nasotracheal intubations</li>
<li>Make plaster bandages for splints/casts</li>
<li>Give open-drop ether, ketamine drips, and halothane</li>
<li>Use subcutaneous/intraperitoneal rehydration/transfusion</li>
<li>Make ORS and standard nutrition formulas</li>
<li>Clean, disinfect, and sterilize equipment for reuse</li>
<li>Warm blood units in seconds inexpensively</li>
<li>Take/view stereoscopic x-rays with standard equipment</li>
<li>Quickly and easily stop postpartum hemorrhage</li>
<li>Fashion surgical equipment from common items</li>
<li>Evacuate patients easily for high-rise hospitals</li>
<li>Make esophageal and precordial stethoscopes</li>
<li>Quickly improvise a saline lock</li>
<li>Make ECG electrode/defibrillator pads and ultrasound gel</li>
</ul>

Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments

Medical Books

Iserson, Kenneth V.

Administration & Medicine Economics

McGraw-Hill Medical

Book by Iserson, Kenneth V., Sanders, Arthur B., Mathieu, D.R.

Ethics in Emergency Medicine

Politics & Social Sciences

Sanders, Arthur B.

Mathieu, D.R.

Philosophy

Williams Wilkins

Getting into a residency: A guide for medical students

Medicine

Camden House

THE step-by-step guide through the process of selecting a medical specialty and obtaining a residency position. Packed with tips and practical information, it is the standard for all medical students. It could be called, How to Get the Most From Medical School, or How to Succeed in a Medical Career. A must for every medical student and an excellent information source for premeds.

Explains how to relate tragic news to survivors by providing true-life case studies, in-depth information, and protocols to a variety of situations. For physicians, nurses, chaplains, and police officers. Includes bereavement resources and support groups, death notification outline, and airline disaster protocols. Softcover.

Grave Words: Notifying Survivors About Sudden, Unexpected Deaths

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Galen Pr Ltd

Pocket-sized pamphlet of protocol for notifying the survivors of the suddenly deceased. Includes lists of appropriate and inappropriate phrases and how to work with survivors of all ages and varying circumstance. Trim size: 5 x 3.25 inches.

Pocket Protocols For Notifying Survivors About Sudden, Unexpected Deaths

Sociology

THE step-by-step guide through the process of selecting a medical specialty and obtaining a residency position. Packed with tips and practical information, it is the standard for all medical students.  It could be called, How to Get the Most From Medical School, or How to Succeed in a Medical Career. A must for every medical student and an excellent information source for premeds.

Getting into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students

This book helps you make decisions when seconds count! Prepare for ethical dilemmas in emergency medical, nursing, and prehospital practice. Case-based, practical discussions provide a straight-forward approach to a wide range of ethical matters. Each case discussion illustrates a specific area of ethical decision making. Learn to identify, refine, and apply general moral principles in your practice. Among the issues addressed are: autonomy, education & research, life-sustaining treatment (emergency department and prehospital/ambulance), privacy & confidentiality, professional relationships, and threatening situations. Use this book to find the answers you have been seeking. (The cases and analyses in this book have also been used to draft scripts for the television show, ER.)

Religion & Spirituality

Iserson's frank, accessible description of what happens to bodies after they die is full of facts, history, quotations, and statistics that provide the reader with an inkling of the complex history of burial, the mores of other cultures, the development of current funeral practices in the U.S., and the impact on the environment of burial in the face of growing population. Iserson hopes, after reading his book, his readers will donate their organs and tissues; forms are provided at the back of the book. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?

Parenting & Relationships

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Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments

Ethics in Emergency Medicine

Getting into a residency: A guide for medical students

Getting into a residency: A guide for medical students

Grave Words: Notifying Survivors About Sudden, Unexpected Deaths

Pocket Protocols For Notifying Survivors About Sudden, Unexpected Deaths

Getting into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students

Getting into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students

Ethics in Emergency Medicine

Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?