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978 0 70219 803 8 978 0 70219 732 1 2014
86 PAGES
ZAR R142.00 ZAR R142.00
BASIC FIRST AID
THE SOUTH AFRICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
Basic First Aid seeks to equip first aiders with the basic skills needed to effectively manage an emergency situation before the arrival of emergency care providers. It outlines step-by-step processes for a first aider to follow and administer to an ill or injured person before the arrival of emergency medical care or before transporting the casualty to a medical facility. Drawing on evidence-based practice and careful research into various emergency cases, this manual provides practical examples and methods to allow the first aider to provide the right kind of assistance in a medical emergency.
KEY FEATURES
• The general principles of first aid
• Basic life support (including unconsciousness, CPR, choking and fainting)
• Injuries (including wounds, bleeding, shock, burns and poisonings)
• Medical conditions (including stroke, heart attack and fits)
• Community health conditions (including malaria, cholera, diarrhoea and
rashes)
• Emergency childbirth
• How to move a casualty.
BIOETHICS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND HEALTH LAW
Principles and practice
A DHAI & D MCQUOID-MASON
This practical guide comes at no better time – a South African response to the Health Professions Council of South Africa’s policy document to make bioethics, human rights and health law a 10 per cent portion of examinable core curriculum for all students in health sciences faculties. It provides students from year one to completion of study, as well as all health practitioners, with the theory and practical application necessary to understand and apply bioethics, human rights and health law.
KEY FEATURES
• Divided into three parts with pertinent topics per part
• Outcomes-based with the learning outcomes outlined at the beginning of
each chapter
• Evaluation questions at the end of each chapter.
978 0 70218 052 1 978 0 70219 613 3 2011
208 PAGES
ZAR R400.00 ZAR R373.00
JUTA HEALTH CATALOGUE | 2018/2019
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