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This chart is designed to educate the patient or caregiver about various types of wounds, their prevention and care. --Provided by publisher.

Emergency situations can occur at any time and the health care assistant may be the first one to respond. Learn how to react to breathing emergencies, cuts, burns, chest pain, fractures and more! This program will assist your staff with knowing what to do and when to do it.

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This state-of-the-art manual is now completely updated and revised with new sections on transportation (such as carjacking or road-rage incidents), defending against terrorists (how to react to a suspicious package or behavior, for example), and information about numerous self-defense techniques. This survival guide now covers the world-any terrain, all climates-with hundreds of line drawings showing details on making tools and rafts, preserving food,...