Are you ready to get started with PHTLS? Experience PHTLS for yourself by previewing a free module from PHTLS Online. Then, complete the NAEMT Instructor Course and learn more about the simple steps to become a PHTLS instructor here. To learn more about becoming an NAEMT Course site, visit this page.Each new print copy of PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support, Eighth Edition also includes an access code that unlocks a complete eBook and skills videos.PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support, Eighth Edition is the premier and proven global prehospital trauma education program from NAEMT. For three decades, PHTLS has improved the quality of trauma patient care and has saved lives. The Eighth Edition of PHTLS continues the PHTLS mission to promote excellence in trauma patient management by all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care through global education.This legendary program was first developed by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) in the early 1980s in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT). Its medical content is continuously revised and updated to reflect current, state-of-the-art knowledge and practice. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that EMS practitioners make the best decisions on behalf of their patients when given a good foundation of knowledge and key principles. The Eighth Edition of PHTLS features a new chapter, Physiology of Life and Death. This chapter creates a solid understanding of the physiology of life and pathophysiology that can lead to death. This understanding is essential for the prehospital care provider if abnormalities are to be found and addressed quickly in the trauma patient.Clear Approach to Assessing a Trauma PatientIn the field, seconds count. PHTLS teaches and reinforces the principles of rapidly assessing a trauma patient using an orderly approach, immediately treating life-threatening problems as they are identified, and minimizing any delays in initiating transport to an appropriate destination.Dynamic Technology SolutionsWorld-class content joins instructionally sound design in a user-friendly online interface to give instructors and students a truly interactive and engaging learning experience with:• eBook• Video Demonstrations of Critical Skills• Interactive LecturesPHTLS Online Continuing Education is also available. Click here for additional information.

AMLS é o principal curso dedicado a profi ssionais que realizam atendimento pré-hospitalar, especialmente em emergência clínica. Ensinado em todo o mundo desde 1999, o AMLS foi o primeiro programa de educação para serviços de emergência a abordar, de maneira completa, a melhor forma de tratar pacientes com patologias clínicas. O AMLS é o único livro-texto aprovado para o curso Atendimento Pré-hospitalar às Emergências Clínicas da NAEMT. Ele enfatiza o uso da Via de Avaliação AMLS – importante guia para avaliação de pacientes clínicos. São destaques desta segunda edição:Aspectos PrincipaisCenários para avaliação crítica possibilitam a aplicação dos conhecimentos adquiridos no capítulo em um contexto clínico realista; soluções dos cenários também estão incluídas. Os alunos podem avaliar, revisar e defi nir o possível diagnóstico do paciente. Questões de revisão, resumos e seções que permitem a integração das informações reforçam conceitos importantes, consolidando o conteúdo do capítulo, além de favorecer a retenção dos conhecimentos adquiridos. Aprovado pela National Association of EMS Physicians, o curso enfatiza o uso da Via de Avaliação AMLS, uma ferramenta sistemática de avaliação que possibilita a realização do diagnóstico preciso e de forma rápida em pacientes clínicos.Conteúdo Médico AtualA abordagem terapêutica, seja ela básica ou avançada, inclui informações sobre avanços recentes nas pesquisas clínicas, conhecimento este útil para profi ssionais de atendimento pré-hospitalar iniciantes e experientes, médicos e enfermeiros de setores de emergência e terapia intensiva.Via de Avaliação AMLS AtualizadaA Via de Avaliação AMLS oferece uma abordagem sistemática para a avaliação do paciente clínico e diversas orientações relevantes para estudantes de todos os níveis de conhecimento.

Brought to you by the expert editor team from Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, this brand-new handbook provides a digestible summary of the 241 disease-oriented chapters contained within the parent text. Boasting an exceptionally templated design with relevant tables and illustrations, it distills the essential, up-to-date, practical information available in infectious disease. This high-yield manual-style reference will prove useful for a wide variety of practitioners looking for quick, practical, and current infectious disease information. - Provides a digestible summary of the 241 disease-oriented chapters contained within Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 8th Edition (ISBN: 978-1-4557-4801-3). - Covers hot topics in infectious disease, such as Hepatitis B and C, Influenza, Measles, Papillomavirus, HIV, MERS, and C. difficile. - Templated design includes relevant tables and illustrations. - Ideal for the non-infectious disease specialist, including primary care physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, students, residents, pharmacists, emergency physicians, and urgent care physicians. - Short concise bulleted information - Supported by table and illustrations where necessary - Release annually with up to date content.

The foremost text in this complex and fast-changing field, Medical Microbiology, 9th Edition, provides concise, up-to-date, and understandable explanations of key concepts in medical microbiology, immunology, and the microbes that cause human disease. Clear, engaging coverage of basic principles, immunology, laboratory diagnosis, bacteriology, virology, mycology, and parasitology help you master the essentials of microbiology―effectively preparing you for your coursework, exams, and beyond. - Features significant new information on the human microbiome and its influence on the immune and other body systems, and new developments in microbial diagnosis, treatment, diseases, and pathogens. - Updates every chapter with state-of-the-art information and current literature citations. - Summarizes detailed information in tabular format rather than in lengthy text. - Provides review questions at the end of each chapter that correlate basic science with clinical practice. - Features clinical cases that illustrate the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases. - Introduces microbe chapters with summaries and trigger words for easy review. - Highlights the text with clear, colorful figures, clinical photographs, and images that help you visualize the clinical presentation of infections. - Offers additional study features online, including 200 self-assessment questions, microscopic images of the microbes, videos, and a new integrating chapter that provides hyperlinks between the microbes, the organ systems that they affect, and their diseases. - Evolve Instructor site with an image and video collection is available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at: https://evolve.elsevier.com.

Prehospital care is a growing area in medicine, and emergency treatments are becoming more sophisticated as the potential to save lives grow. The fourth edition of this ABC has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on nuclear and biological emergencies. Each chapter gives concise and clear guidance and is accompanied by excellent photographs and diagrams. Edited and written by leading UK trauma authorities, this is a truly comprehensive and practical book for everyday use by emergency medicine staff, nurses, hospital doctors, paramedics, and ambulance services. This title is also available as a mobile App from MedHand Mobile Libraries. Buy it now from iTunes, Google Play or the MedHand Store.

The field of emergency general surgery encompasses a wide array of surgical diseases, ranging from the simple to the complex. These diseases may include inflammatory, infectious, and hemorrhagic processes spanning the entire gastrointestinal tract. Complications of abdominal wall hernias, compartment syndromes, skin and soft tissue infections, and surgical diseases are significantly complex in special populations, including elderly, obese, pregnant, immunocompromised, and cirrhotic patients. This book covers emergency general surgery topics in a succinct, practical and understandable fashion. After reviewing the general principles in caring for the emergency general surgery patient, this text discusses current evidence and the best practices stratified by organ system, including esophageal, gastroduodenal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic, small and large bowel, anorectal, thoracic, and hernias. Chapters are written by experts in the field and present a logical, straightforward, and easy to understand approach to the emergency general surgery patient, as well as provide patient care algorithms where appropriate. Emergency General Surgery: A Practical Approach provides surgeons and surgery residents with a practical and evidence-based approach to diagnosing and managing a wide array of surgical diseases encountered on emergency general surgery call.