Medical Specialties Books and Publications

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 ...

By ASTM International

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 ...

By ASTM International

Biophysical and Physiological Effects of Solar Radiation on Human Skin

In an era of global warming knowledge of the effects of solar radiation on humans is of great importance and the latest discoveries in environmental photobiology are presented in this book.The Editor has brought together a wide range of world class contributors to provide the reader with information on the clinical effects of solar radiation, such as inflammation, pigmentation, ...

By Royal Society of Chemistry

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 ...

By Taylor & Francis Group (USA)

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 ...

By ASTM International

Double burden of malnutrition, (The). Case studies from six developing countries (English)

Series: FAO Food and Nutrition PapersIn several developing countries, undernourishment is still prevalent while obesity and its related co-morbidities, including chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, are emerging and contributing increasingly to morbidity and mortality. Several countries are now facing a double burden of malnutrition, i.e. caloric ...

By Earthprint Ltd

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

Back Injury Among Healthcare Workers: Causes, Solutions, and Impacts

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently calculated nearly 60,000 musculoskeletal injuries to healthcare workers resulting from heavy lifting during attempts to move patients. Often the nurses, aides, orderlies, and attendants who suffered permanent injuries were forced out of the profession, straining an already inadequate pool of workers and wasting valuable knowledge and ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group

Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services

Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather services—NOAA (primarily the National Weather Service [NWS]), academic institutions, and private companies. This three-sector system has produced a scope and diversity of weather services in the United States second to none. However, rapid scientific and technological change is changing the capabilities of the sectors and ...

By The National Academies Press (NAP)

Correcting Gender Myopia: Gender Equity, Women"s Welfare, And The Environment

At international conferences throughout the 1990"s--in Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Cairo, and Beijing--a new vision of women"s health, welfare, and rights was created. This vision acknowledged the deep connections between support for educational, economic, social, and political opportunity for women on the one hand, and progress in stabilizing population growth, protecting the environment, and ...

By Worldwatch Institute

Cancer and the Environment: Gene-Environment Interactions

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By The National Academies Press (NAP)

Cancer as an Environmental Disease

These pages contain a number of chapters from specialists in the field who consider, from a number of different perspectives, the currently available evidence that supports the environmental cancer aetiology hypothesis. This constitutes the first part of the book. In the second part of the book, an examination of the policy implications of accepting that the cancer epidemic may essentially be ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Applied Geography

Applied Geography, A World Perspective reviews progress in applied geography in different regions of the world. It does this through the eyes of an international panel of highly regarded academic practitioners. The book offers new prospects on the use of established approaches and explores exciting new territories. Together, the contributors provide a comprehensive picture of applied geography ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Medical Emergencies: Citizen Responder (Video)

Emergencies can be terrifying, and sometimes, those who witness them have to respond right on the spot.Emergencies happen in the blink of an eye. To save lives, any witness must be as swift to react. This program illustrates what to do if a person meets a life-threatening medical emergency. It includes correct procedures for dealing with: Heart attacksChoking ...

By Dupont Sustainable Solutions

Current Trends in Medical & Surgical Urology

Current Trends in Medical & Surgical Urology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal focussing on current advancements in the field of Urology including; Surgery for Urology, Urinary Tract Infections, Genitourinary Disorders, Urologic Oncology, and Urogynecology. The journal provides a unique platform for scientists to encourage research publication to research scholars, ...

By Gavin Conference

Cardiac Gene Expression

Cardiac Gene Expression: Methods and Protocols presents both cutting-edge and established methods for studying cardiac gene expression. The protocols provide a template for solid research, and cover the process through screening, analysis, characterization, and functional confirmation of novel genes or known genes with a new function. Section I, Cardiac Gene Expression Profiling: The ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Photoreceptors and Calcium

This volume foxuses on the status of Ca2+ ions in regulation of phototransduction, light adaptation and the recovery phase in vertebrate photoreceptors. Particular emphasis is given to Ca2+-binding proteins and their targets, among them particulate guanylate cyclases, GPCR-coupled kinases and cyclic nucleotide-gated cation channels. The book also expands our understanding of events invovling Ca2+ ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Anatomical Imaging

This book presents selected works of contemporary evolutionary morphologists and includes such topics as broad scale reconstructions of the brain and ear of dinosaurs, inference of locomotor habits from cancellous bone architecture in fossil primates, and a comparison of the independently evolved manipulating apparatuses in the lesser and giant pandas. Insight is provided into the application of ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research

Journal of Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal which publishes wide range of concepts and explores the recent advancements of the specialty of orthodontics and the evidence-based knowledge of craniofacial growth and development. This Journal publishes original papers of high scientific ...

By Gavin Conference

Medical Informatics

Medical Informatics and biomedical computing have grown in quantum measure over the past decade. An abundance of advances have come to the foreground in this field with the vast amounts of biomedical and genomic data, the Internet, and the wide application of computer use in all aspects of medical, biological, and health care research and practice. MEDICAL INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH