Providing Mass Medical Care with Scarce Resources: A Community Planning Guide 175 pages
The purpose of this guide is to provide community planners ? as well as planners at the facility/community, institutional, State, and Federal levels ? with valuable information and insights that will help them in their efforts to plan for and respond to a mass casualty event (MCE).
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/research/mce/mceguide.pdf
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy internet connection
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Explains disorders, who is likely to get them, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed,
how they might be prevented, and how they can be treated; also provides information
about prognosis.
Physician's Desk Reference
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Caregiving.org
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Learn Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
CPR for Adults - CPR in three simple steps.
Instructions
Video
CPR for Children - CPR in three steps for small children.
Instructions
Video
CPR for Infants - CPR for infants in five simple steps.
Instructions
Video
CPR Pocket Guide - CPR instructions you can print and take with you. Instructions
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University of Washington School of Medicine
http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/
see also 2005 American
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http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/espanol/index.html
Choking Information
Conscious Adults - First aid for a conscious choking adult.
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Instructions
Video
University of Washington School of Medicine
http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/
Nursing Care for The Sick - A Guide for Nurses Working in Small Rural Hospitals
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the
Western Pacific
http://www.wpro.who.int/internet/files/pub/85/contents.pdf
multipart download
Cover
Contents
Chapter 1 The role of the nurse on the health care team
Chapter 2 Communicating with patients and their families
Chapter 3 Monitoring the patient and recording nursing care
Chapter 4 Daily care of the patient
Chapter 5 Protect the patient from infection
Chapter 6 Safe administration of medicines
Chapter 7 Care for the child in hospital
Chapter 8 Care for the maternity patient
Chapter 9 Caring for the patient who has problems with elimination
Chapter 10 Meeting patients' nutritional needs
Chapter 11 Care for the patient with limited mobility
Chapter 12 Care for the surgical patient
Chapter 13 Care for the patient in pain
Chapter 14 Care of patients in life -threatening emergencies
Chapter 15 Care for the dying patient and the family
Chapter 16 Preparing the patient for discharge
Helping Health Workers Learn by David Werner
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Warning
Why This Book is so Political
PART ONE: Approaches and Plans
Chapter 1: Looking at Learning and Teaching
Chapter 2: Selecting Health Workers, Instructors, and Advisors
Chapter 3: Planning a Training Program
Chapter 4: Getting Off to a Good Start (Be Prepared)
Chapter 5: Planning a Class
Chapter 6: Learning and Working with the Community
Chapter 7: Helping People Look at Their Customs and Beliefs
Chapter 8: Practice in Attending the Sick
Chapter 9: Examinations and Evaluation as a Learning Proccess
Chapter 10: Follow-up, Support, and Continued Learning
PART TWO: Learning Through Seeing, Doing, and Thinking
Chapter 11: Making and Using Teaching Aids
Chapter 12: Learning to Make, Take, and Use Pictures
Chapter 13: Story Telling
Chapter 14: Role Playing
Chapter 15: Appropriate and Inappropriate Technology
Chapter 16: Homemade, Lo-cost Equipment and Written Materials
Chapter 17: Solving Problems Step by Step (Scientific Method)
Chapter 18: Learning to Use Medicines and Equipment Sensibly
Chapter 19: Aids for Learning to Use Medicines and Equipment
PART THREE: Learning To Use The Book, Where There Is No Doctor
Chapter 20: Using the Contents, Index, Page References, and Vocabulary
Chapter 21: Practice in Using Guides, Charts, and Record Sheets
PART FOUR: Activities With Mothers and Children
Chapter 22: Pregnant Women, Mothers, and Young Children
Chapter 23: The Politics of Family Planning
Chapter 24: Children as Health Workers
PART FIVE: Health In Relation To Food, Land, And Social Problems
Chapter 25: Food First
Chapter 26: Looking at How Human Resources Affect Health
Chapter 27: Ways to get People Thinking and Acting: Village Theater and Puppet Shows
A Call For Courage and Caution
Addresses For Teaching Materials
Index
About Project Piaxtla ad The Authors
see also Aprendiendo a Promover la Salud
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/APLSonline.htm
Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner
http://www.healthwrights.org/books/WTINDonline.htm multipart
download. 23 chapters. 436 pages
HealthWrights is a non-profit organization committed to advancing the
health, basic rights, social equality, and self-determination of disadvantaged
persons and groups.
Cover -
How to Use This Book -
Cover pages -
Thanks -
Translations -
Contents -
Introduction -
Words to the village health worker
Chapter
1 Home Cures
Chapter 2 Sickenesses That Are Often Confused
Chapter 03 How To Examine A Sick Person
Chapter 04 How To Take Care Of A Sick Person
Chapter 05 Healing Without Medicines
Chapter_06 Right and Wrong Uses of Medicine
Chapter_07 Antibiotics
Chapter_08 How To Measure and Give Medicine
Chapter_09 Injections
Chapter_10 First Aid
Chapter_11 What To Eat To Be Healthy
Chapter_12 Prevention
Chapter_13 Common Sicknesses
Chapter_14 Illnesses That Need Medical Attention
Chapter_15 Skin Problems
Chapter_16 The Eyes
Chapter_17 Teeth Gums Mouth
Chapter_18 Urinary System and Genitals
Chapter_19 Information for Mothers and Midwives
Chapter_20 Family Planning
Chapter_21 Health and Sickness of Children
Chapter_22 Health and Sickness of Older People
Chapter_23 The Medicine Kit
Green_Pages Uses Dosage Precautions for Medicines
Blue_Pages New Information
Vocabulary
Addresses
Index
DondeNoHayDoctor
http://healthwrights.org/books/DHNDonline.htm multipart
download 455 pages spanish
Portada?
Página de Título?
Contenido?
Introducción?
Notas Sobre Esta
Edición?
Agradecimientos?
Entendiendo Las Necesidades -
Palabras a los Trabajadores de Salud Rural
CAPÍTULO 1: Curaciones
Caseras y Creencias Populares
CAPÍTULO 2:
Enfermedades que Se Confunden con Frecuencia
CAPÍTULO 3: Cómo
Examinar a un Enfermo
CAPÍTULO 4:
Cómo Cuidar a un Enfermo
CAPÍTULO 5: Curando
sin Medicinas
CAPÍTULO 6:
El Buen Uso y el Mal Uso de las Medicinas Modernas
CAPÍTULO 7:
Los Antibióticos: Qué Son y Cómo Usarlos
CAPÍTULO 8:
Cómo Medir y Dar las Medicinas
CAPÍTULO 9: Instucciones
y Precauciones para Inyectar
CAPÍTULO 10: Primeros
Auxilios
CAPÍTULO 11: Nutrición
CAPÍTULO 12: Medicina Preventiva: Cómo Evitar Muchas Enfermedades
CAPÍTULO 13: Algunas Enfermedades Muy Comunes
CAPÍTULO 14: Enfermedades Graves Que Necesitan Atención Médica Especial
CAPÍTULO 15: Enfermedades de la Piel
CAPÍTULO 16: Los Ojos
CAPÍTULO 17: Los Dientes, las Encías y la Boca
CAPÍTULO 18: Las Vías Urinarias y las ?Partes Ocultas?
CAPÍTULO 19: Información para Madres y Parteras
CAPÍTULO 20: Planificación Familiar- Tener el Número
CAPÍTULO 21: Salud y Enfermedades de los Niños
CAPÍTULO 22: Salud y Enfermedades de la Gente Mayor
CAPÍTULO 23: El Botiquín
Las Páginas
Verdes
Lista de Las Medicinas en las Páginas Verdes
Índice de las Medicinas en las Páginas Verdes
Información Sobre las Medicinas en las Páginas Verdes
Páginas Azules: Nueva Información
Dígito-Presión
Vocabulario
Dónde Conseguir Materiales Educativos
Índice
Formas
Otros Libros
Información Sobre las Señas Vitales
Portada Trasera
Where There Is No Dentist
by Murray Dickson
http://healthwrights.org/books/WTINDentistonline.htm
multipart download
Front Cover
? Title Page
? Thanks
? Contents
? Introduction
Chapter 1: Your Own Teeth and Gums
Chapter 2: Teaching Family and Friends in Your Community
Chapter 3: Teaching Children at School
Chapter 4: School Activities for Learning about Teeth and Gums
Chapter 5: Taking Care of Teeth and Gums
Chapter 6: Examinations and Diagnosis
Chapter 7: Treating Some Common Problems
Chapter 8: Scaling Teeth
Chapter
9: Injecting Inside The Mouth
Chapter 10: Cement Fillings
Chapter 11: Taking Out a Tooth
Reference
Pages
The Dental Kit
Records,
Reports, and Surveys
Story
Telling: An Example about Pregnancy
Teaching Materials
Vocabulary
Index
US Army Emergency War Surgery Handbook
34 chapters
Borden Institute - Textbooks
of Military Medicine
http://www.bordeninstitute.army.mil/emrgncywarsurg/default.html
Survival and Austere Medicine 213 pages
The Remote, Austere, Wilderness and Third World Medicine Discussion Board Moderators
misc.survivalism Survival Medicine FAQ 2nd edition
http://www.aussurvivalist.com/downloads/AM%20Final%202.pdf
http://www.endtimesreport.com/Survival_Medicine.pdf
Virtual Hospital
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University of Iowa Health
Care
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make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health
care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains thousands
of textbooks and booklets for health care providers and patients.
Due to a lack of funding this project was discontinued.
A web archive version of the site can be found here
http://web.archive.org/web/20050401091429/http://www.vh.org/.
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