Accident & Emergency Medicine

Professor Kevin Fong flies with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, making split-second, life-or-death decisions in the most extreme circumstances. In this memoir and reportage, he confronts a disturbing truth: sometimes even the best trained expert does not know the right ...thing to do.
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The author emergency air ambulance doctor and his crew HeliMed 999 never know where their work will take them. The only thing they can be sure of is: every second counts. This title offers behind-the-scenes account of life onboard an air ambulance, the UK's first to carry a quali...fied trauma team.
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Traumatic events can leave mental and physical scars-but these scars don't have to define us. Heal the Body, Heal the Mind takes trauma survivors on a supportive and healing journey toward well-being. By practicing the somatic exercises and mind-body interventions in this compass...ionate guide, readers will learn to move past difficult experiences, restore their relationships, and cultivate spiritual awareness.
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Told through seven emotions that we can all empathise with, this book from the British Medical Association's own Secret Doctor gives us a unique window onto the other side of a hospital experience, showing us how it feels to care for a living.

Whether or not the United States has safe and effective medical countermeasures--such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tools--available for use during a disaster can mean the difference between life and death for many Americans. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the sc...ientific community at large could benefit from improved scientific tools and analytic techniques to undertake the complex scientific evaluation and decision making needed to make essential medical countermeasures available. At the request of FDA, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) held a workshop to examine methods to improve the development, evaluation, approval, and regulation of medical countermeasures. During public health emergencies such as influenza or chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear (CBRN) attacks, safe and effective vaccines, treatments, and other medical countermeasures are essential to protecting national security and the well being of the public. Advancing regulatory science for medical countermeasure development examines current medical countermeasures, and investigates the future of research and development in this area. Convened on March 29-30, 2011, this workshop identified regulatory science tools and methods that are available or under development, as well as major gaps in currently available regulatory science tools. Advancing regulatory science for medical countermeasure development is a valuable resource for federal agencies including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Defense (DoD), as well as health professionals, and public and private health organizations --Publisher's description.
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