A Parent's Guide to Medical Emergencies : First Aid for Your Child - Softcover

Zand, Janet; Walton, Rachel

 
9780895297365: A Parent's Guide to Medical Emergencies : First Aid for Your Child

Synopsis

A complete guide to common childhood emergencies and ailments offers easy-to-follow first aid instructions for choking, poisoning, seizures, shock, drownings, cuts, and other childhood disasters. Original. IP.

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About the Author

Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, has been a practitioner of natural medicine for the past twenty years.
Rachel Walton, R.N., M.S., is a pediatric nurse with a master's degree in child-health nursing.

Reviews

From the authors of Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child (LJ 9/15/94) comes a quick reference guide for both immediate and follow-up care for common pediatric emergencies, from allergic reactions to unconsciousness. Part 1 offers home safety checklists and basic preparedness suggestions as well as an interesting chapter on understanding childhood trauma and its after-effects. Part 2 reviews step-by-step basic life-saving techniques such as CPR and the Heimlich maneuver for infants and children (for which the authors strongly recommend formal training). Part 3 covers emergency treatment, conventional medical therapy, and natural or homeopathic remedies to use after the initial emergency has been treated. Emergencies are listed alphabetically for ease of use. The line drawings and instructions are clear and succinct, and critical information is printed in bold type. A list of American and Canadian poison control center telephone numbers is included under the section on poisoning. Recommended for consumer health collections.?Anne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., N.Y.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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