3 am call: "Mrs X has a blood sugar of 23. Come and deal with it.""I think my insulin pen is called something like Solostar."The respiratory doctors started high dose prednisolone, and the patient's glucose is 18. What is the blood glucose target for this patient admitted with a…
Health emergency preparedness and response
Introduction : why do we need to prepare? / Dr. Chloe Sellwood and Andy Wapling -- The planning process / Dr. Chloe Sellwood and Andy Wapling -- Risk assessment / Jacky Bush -- Writing an emergency plan / Andy Wapling -- Emergency planning and response : working in partnership /…
Health emergency preparedness and response
Health emergency preparedness and response
This book aims to provide a series of informative descriptions of key elements of health emergency preparedness and response that are underpinned by real-life examples. The book is divided into 17 chapters, as follows: introduction on the need to prepare for health emergencies; …
Health emergency preparedness and response
Intensely practical and down to earth, this timely new text covers the breadth of health emergency preparedness, resilience and response topics in the context of inter-disciplinary and whole society responses to a range of threats. It includes public, private and third sector ro…
Disaster medicine
by Ovid Technologies, Inc, Burstein, Jonathan L., Hogan, David E.
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