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For courses in Paramedic Emergency Medical Services. Paramedic
Care: Principles & Practice, Fourth Edition, is intended to
serve as a foundational guide and reference to paramedicine.
Developed to stay ahead of current trends and practices in
paramedicine, all seven volumes are based on the National EMS
Education Standards and the accompanying Paramedic Instructional
Guidelines. Volume 2, Paramedicine Fundamentals, covers basic
paramedic-level knowledge in pathophysiology, human life-span
development, and pharmacology. It also covers key advanced-level
skills in intravenous access and medication administration as well
as airway management and ventilation.
For courses in Paramedic Emergency Medical Services. Paramedic
Care: Principles & Practice, Fourth Edition, is intended to
serve as a foundational guide and reference to paramedicine.
Developed to stay ahead of current trends and practices in
paramedicine, all seven volumes are based on the National EMS
Education Standards and the accompanying Paramedic Instructional
Guidelines. Volume 7, Operations, focuses on Paramedic-related
operational issues and includes a review of ground ambulance
operations, new changes in terminology that have been established
through the NIMS process, a new chapter on air medical operations,
and updated coverage on responding to terrorist acts.
For courses in Paramedic Emergency Medical Services. Paramedic
Care: Principles & Practice, Fourth Edition, is intended to
serve as a foundational guide and reference to paramedicine.
Developed to stay ahead of current trends and practices in
paramedicine, all seven volumes are based on the National EMS
Education Standards and the accompanying Paramedic Instructional
Guidelines. Volume 1, Introduction to Paramedicine, provides
paramedic students with the principles of advanced prehospital care
and EMS operations, including an overview of the various aspects of
paramedic practice as well as an introduction to workforce safety
and wellness, EMS research, the EMS role in public health, legal
and ethical considerations, and EMS system communications and
documentation.
For courses in Paramedic Emergency Medical Services. Paramedic
Care: Principles & Practice, Fourth Edition, is intended to
serve as a foundational guide and reference to paramedicine.
Developed to stay ahead of current trends and practices in
paramedicine, all seven volumes are based on the National EMS
Education Standards and the accompanying Paramedic Instructional
Guidelines. Volume 4, Medicine, covers medical emergencies and
includes new material on the use and interpretation of capnography,
the role of CPAP in respiratory diseases, comprehensive coverage of
cardiology, more information about stroke therapy and similar
treatments, current toxicological practices, more material on
drug-induced psychosis and similar problems, and a new chapter on
non-traumatic musculoskeletal disorders.
The Politics of Authenticating: Revisiting New Orleans Jazz sets
forth an entirely new approach to the study of authenticity, based
not upon a search for finding the ‘true’ meaning of the concept
or ‘unmasking’ its claims. Rather, it details a grounded theory
of ‘authenticating’ as a basic socio-political process,
important in understanding the origins, development and
consequences of competing knowledge claims in diverse areas of
human experience and activity over time and place. The book is part
jazz historiography, part autoethnography, and part memoir. It
details Richard Ekins revisiting of the quest for authenticity in
the social worlds of international New Orleans revivalist jazz from
the early 1960s onwards, from his standpoint as a social
constructionist social scientist and cultural theorist. The book
grew out of a series of long, detailed conversations between Ekins
and his interlocutor (Robert Porter) and captures the energy and
dynamism of these exchanges in the writing of the text, providing
what the authors call a ‘riff methodology’ that might be drawn
on by other scholars concerned to write books that revisit aspects
of their personal and professional lives.
Occupying a space in-between conventional scholarship and
imaginative storytelling, The University in Crumbs: A Register of
Things Seen and Heard is an experimental work that dramatizes the
everyday life of the academy. Consisting primarily of a series of
five first-person reports, Robert Porter, Kerry-Ann Porter and Iain
Mackenzie provide the reader with a number of stories that attempt
to capture some of their everyday experiences of academic life in
the UK, roughly between 2017 and 2022. Self-consciously written in
a subjective and conversational register, and often in dialogical
form, The University in Crumbs is an accessible series of
interrelated narratives that allow us to develop a concrete sense
of the grain, texture and feel for what it might be like to work in
the academy at a specific point in time. These stories,
first-person reports, dialogues, come alive, acquire their meaning,
force and pragmatic effect by way of a rather unique circumlocutory
form. There is a directedness to the everyday talk engaged in by
Robert, Kerry-Ann and Iain that nonetheless, simultaneously,
indirectly loops in and out of a kind of technical academic talk
that provides the book its light and shade. University in Crumbs is
an experimental work that implicitly and explicitly animates
philosophy, social, cultural and political theory through
first-person experiences and, in so doing, breathes new life into
what can often otherwise remain rather conventional and technical
academic language-games. More than that, this book dramatizes ideas
and concepts in ways perhaps less burdened by the weight of
canonical tradition, and encourages those readers with the talent
to portray their social world differently to be more licentious and
less bashful in putting such talents to work.
The politics of everyday life is to be found, time and again, in
meandering movements, in making connections across and between
things in the rough and tumble of the seemingly banal, fragmentary
and quotidian experiences that make up our day-to-day existence.
The key point of the book, ideally as well as practically, is to
realize that there may be something potentially significant, and
politically significant, in the very act of making such
connections, of understanding the supposedly trite and trivial
world of the everyday against a broader political backcloth. There
is merit in sifting the fragments, the fragmentary experiences, of
everyday life in order to see how they imply a broader political
totality in which they are situated and, at times, cleverly made to
function. This intuition, broadly inspired by Henri Lefebvre, is
reflected in and through the various and varying ways Porter puts
to work the ideas and provocations of thinkers such as Raoul
Vaneigem, Gilles Deleuze, and Soren Kierkegaard.
The politics of everyday life is to be found, time and again, in
meandering movements, in making connections across and between
things in the rough and tumble of the seemingly banal, fragmentary
and quotidian experiences that make up our day-to-day existence.
The key point of the book, ideally as well as practically, is to
realize that there may be something potentially significant, and
politically significant, in the very act of making such
connections, of understanding the supposedly trite and trivial
world of the everyday against a broader political backcloth. There
is merit in sifting the fragments, the fragmentary experiences, of
everyday life in order to see how they imply a broader political
totality in which they are situated and, at times, cleverly made to
function. This intuition, broadly inspired by Henri Lefebvre, is
reflected in and through the various and varying ways Porter puts
to work the ideas and provocations of thinkers such as Raoul
Vaneigem, Gilles Deleuze, and Soren Kierkegaard.
Your one-stop guide to poststructuralism: where it came from, what
it's achieved and where it's going. Written by experts in their
field, this important reference volume surveys the challenges and
provocations raised by the major voices of poststructuralism:
Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Lyotard, Guattari, Kristeva,
Irigary, Barthes and Baudrillard. Thematically organised and
clearly written, it will guide students in philosophy, literature,
art, geography, politics, sociology, law, film and cultural studies
around the nature and contemporary relevance of poststructuralism.
It explores the emergence of poststructuralism, from its origins in
Marxism and structuralism to its global academic impact. It
includes chapters that are arranged by theme and topic, showing
which ideas captivated poststructuralist thinkers. It looks at the
criticisms of poststructuralism. It investigates the new trends and
recent debates within and around poststructuralism.
Greek language reference of Homeric terms and allusions, for
students of Greek at the thrid and fourth year of study as found in
departments of Classics and Classical languages.It includes the
most common 9,000 words used in the Iliad and Odyssey, with
grammatical forms and illustrations. It is part of the Focus
Classical Reprint series.
Ideology draws on the social, political and cultural theory of
Jurgen Habermas, Gilles Deleuze and Slavoj i ek in order to explore
the possibility of developing a 'critical conception of ideology'.
The book is concerned with two main themes: the relationship of
ideology to the 'real' and the relationship between ideology and
the 'ethical'. Although these three writers are often assumed to
have little in common, Porter demonstrates a formal homology
between them by showing that they all offer an idea of critique
that pivots around two central intuitions. Firstly, they insist
that a substantive critical distinction can be drawn between the
ideological and the real. And, secondly, Habermas, Deleuze and i ek
all offer an image of ideology critique that is importantly
grounded on ethical terms. By engaging, among other things, with
Habermas's sociological work on the public sphere, i ek's forays
into popular culture, and Deleuze's analysis of political cinema,
Ideology strives to concretely animate how each of these figures
provide the critical tools necessary to challenge the kinds of
ideological practice that pervade the contemporary social world.
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