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Awarded a 2012 AJN Book of the Year Award! Finalist 2012 Indie Book Awards Be prepared for first aid care and survival in any settingat home, on the road, outdoors, while boating, hiking, or camping. From performing CPR on an adult, child, or infant to dealing with bleeding and shock, cuts and broken bones, heart attacks, emergency childbirth, poisoning, drowning, scuba diving mishaps, wilderness survival, and natural disasters such as tornadoes, wildfires, floods, and earthquakes…this portable, waterproof guide helps you quickly find the information you need to develop a plan of action for assessing and treating all kinds of first aid and survival emergencies. A special feature includes pet safety describing how to assemble a pet first aid kit, performing CPR on a dog and cat, and keeping pets safe during natural disasters. Keep a copy in your home, car, boat, camper, or backpack and be ready when emergencies occur. Here's what Kirkus Reviews had to say about First Aid, Survival, and CPR: Clear, succinct information, sensible design, and strongly organized information combine to make this field guide an invaluable aid to travelers and outdoor recreationists. The well-chosen physical design also includes waterproof pages that are easy to write on with markers, which will allow users to make notes and carry the guide into a variety of different environments. Jones arranges the text into easily digestible chunks, using colors, subheads, graphics, photos, and text boxes to organize and enliven it. A copy of Jones safety guide should have a place of honor in every vehicle and camping kit.
Product Description
Be prepared for emergency care and survival in any setting - indoors and out. From performing CPR on a child (or even on a dog or a cat) to dealing with bleeding and shock, scuba diving mishaps, wilderness survival, and earthquakes...this portable, waterproof guide helps you quickly find the information you need to develop a plan of action for assessing and treating all kinds of injuries. It offers guidance on how to distinguish major from minor injuries, and 'what to do' and 'what not to do'. This title covers most current guidelines for...adult, child, and infant CPR and choking emergencies. It offers pet safety and first aid, including dog and cat CPR. It includes identification, evaluation, management, and prevention methods for...medical emergencies, environmental injuries, water emergencies, animal bites and stings, marine-life attacks, trauma, poisonings, and scorpion, snake, spider, and tick stings and bites. It includes information on how to build first aid, survival, and disaster emergency supply kits. It covers safety and survival during a natural disaster, including a...flood, hurricane, tornado, house fire, wildfire, earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption, landslide and mudslide, winter storm and extreme cold. It also includes wilderness survival techniques, including...starting fires, water supplies, water purification, food supplies, shelter, navigation systems, search and rescue, and signalling for help. It contains emergency contact numbers and web sites, including travellers' health topics (safety, vaccinations, children, and pets), poison control, scuba divers alert network, weather service, and world health organization. It presents waterproof and reusable, wipe-free pages for taking notes or highlighting information with a ballpoint pen and then erasing clean with an alcohol pad.
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