Medical Equipment Books
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pHealth 2020
Smart mobile systems such as microsystems, smart textiles, smart implants, and sensor-controlled medical devices, together with their related networks, have become important enablers for telemedicine and ubiquitous pervasive health to become next-generation health ...
By IOS Press
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Ultimate Health Issue
The Ultimate Health Issue with guest editor Gideon Forman (Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment) explores environmental issues with significant health impacts – toxics, pesticides, local food, resource extraction – that are poised to be key issues in this election year. The issue also captures the momentum of increasing efforts – and successes ...
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Aging and Vulnerability to Environmental Chemicals
Many of the world's societies face an unprecedented demographic challenge. They are aging at such a rapid rate that it threatens to overwhelm their resources and economies. Of all the problems this creates, the foremost is declining health. As populations age, they place rising demands on medical care systems but no longer produce the wealth required to sustain them. Aging is not a disease. We ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue; Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment
Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians.Search and Rescue—addresses search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and personnel training.Anesthetic and Respiratory ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue; Anesthetic and Respiratory Equipment
Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians.Search and Rescue—addresses search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and personnel training.Anesthetic and Respiratory ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue
This volume provides the latest standards for:Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians. Search and Rescue—standards focus on search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue
This volume provides the latest standards for:Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians. Search and Rescue—standards focus on search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue
This volume provides the latest standards for:Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians. Search and Rescue—standards focus on search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue
This volume provides the latest standards for:Emergency Medical Services—covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, and basic training for emergency medical technicians. Search and Rescue—standards focus on search, rescue, and recovery operations, including the testing and maintenance of equipment, management and operations, and ...
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Heart Rate Variability & Ultrafine Particle Exposures
Over the last ten years, many epidemiological studies have assessed changes in cardiac morbidity and mortality based on exposures to ambient to particles (Dockery et al., 1993, Schwartz, 1994; Samet et al., 2000; Peters et al., 1999). Exposure to particles of aerodynamic diameter <2.5 µm and <10 µm have earned considerable attention as elevated levels have been associated with lung function ...
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Geocoding Health Data: The Use of Geographic Codes in Cancer Prevention and Control, Research and Practice
In the past, disease pattern mapping depended on census tracts based on political units, such as states and counties. However, with the advent of geographic information systems (GIS), researchers can now achieve a new level of precision and flexibility in geographic locating. This emerging technology allows the mapping of many different kinds of geographies, including disease rates in relation to ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue
This volume provides the latest standards for: Emergency Medical Services--covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, basic training for emergency medical technicians. Search and Rescue--appearing in this section are specifications and practices for search, rescue, and recovery operations, which cover testing and maintenance of equipment; ...
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Fatigue and Fracture of Medical Metallic Materials and Devices
Get the latest information on the thermal and mechanical properties of shape memory alloys (SMA's) and metallic medical materials and devices. Eleven peer-reviewed papers: • Define the environments in body-specific locations such as the superficial femoral artery, carotid, abdominal and thoracic arteries• Develop constitutive expressions for the deformation response of nitinol via ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue
This volume provides the latest standards for: Emergency Medical Services--covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, basic training for emergency medical technicians. Search and Rescue--appearing in this section are specifications and practices for search, rescue, and recovery operations, which cover testing and maintenance of equipment; ...
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International Medical Guide for Ships
Since its first publication in 1967, the International Medical Guide for Ships has been a standard reference for medical care on board ships. The second edition, written in 1988, was translated into more than 30 languages, and has been used in tens of thousands of ships. This, the third edition, contains fully updated recommendations aimed to promote and protect the health of seafarers, and is ...
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Emergency Medical Services; Search and Rescue
NEW VOLUME!Emergency Medical Services--covers emergency medical dispatch, ambulances, fixed wing basic and specialized units, basic training for emergency medical technicians. Search and Rescue--appearing in this section are specifications and practices for search, rescue, and recovery operations, which cover testing and maintenance of equipment; management and operations; and ...
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Health Systems : Facts and trends- Affecting business decisions today
This publication describes ten key health topics, including disease, environment and health, prevention and personal responsibility, health systems and information technology. Each topic is illustrated in a 2-page vignette, which provides a series of facts, trends and implications for ...
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Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine
In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "bear farms" where they are imprisoned in squeeze cages, and a steel catheter is inserted into their gall bladders. The dripping bile is collected as a cure for ailments ranging from an upset stomach to skin burns. The bear may live as long as fifteen ...
By Island Press
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Human nutrition in the developing world - vol 29 (En)
Series: Food and Nutrition Series(First edition: 1997; this reprint: 2004) In this publication, Professor Michael Latham draws upon his far-reaching experience in the field of international nutrition to provide a rich source of information about nutrition science, public health, food science and public policy. The text summarizes key points in human nutrition and provides information about ...
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Safety Meetings for Health Care Workers
• Training your health care staff on the subject of safety has never been easier or more economical. With this comprehensive safety program, you get the materials to run an effective safety meeting on over 40 topics. • We provide everything you need to run a complete safety meeting. • No need to research topics, gather materials, or monitor new regs surrounding safety and health care … ...
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