EMS Books

If a "picture states a thousand words", Wade Krawczyk's new book speaks volumes. If you are a panzer memorabilia collector this is an absolute must have reference. As the title suggests this work is strictly color photos of panzer uniforms and insignia from WWII. There are absolutely outstanding photos to include closeups of the inside and outside of original panzer wraps worn throughout the war. The pictures are of the best quality I have ever seen in a refernce work and cover not only the panzer, but panzerjaeger and assault artillery. The insignia section shows both front and back of collar tabs,shoulderboards and panzer assault badges.There is also an excellent section showing paper items such as soldbuchs and deathcards. I recommend this book highly to any serious collector,historian, or modeler who wants to see period, original uniforms worn by the WWII German panzertruppe.

The real panzer uniforms are displayed clearly in this book. The colour pictures are very sharp and provide vast amount of information on the real stuff. WW2 historians and modelling enthusiasts should consider getting this book.

This book occupies the ground between an inexpensive primer like the Men at Arms books, and the hardcover coffee table type books like Pruett and Edwards' "Field Uniforms of German Army Panzer Forces."

Anyone thinking of buying any of the Osprey titles - either the Panzer Divisions title or the title on tank crews - would be advised to think about what they really want to see. The former concentrates on divisional history and has only some general uniform details. The latter goes into greater detail but talks more about day to day life and equipment.

This book, however, concentrates solely on the uniforms, and does so with beautiful colour photos of surviving garments. Captions are well done.

However, this book does not reach the level of detail Pruett and Edwards have achieved. It also costs a fraction of Pruett and Edwards' book, and has better colour photos.

As a basic general reference to uniform types, it would be my second choice if price wasn't a concern, and my first choice if it was.

Like all the Militaria Europa series this is a masterpiece on the subject. Every aspect of the German armored vehicle crewmans' uniform is lavishly photographed and discussed in great detail.The book even displays laundry and tailors markings and how to tell the sizes and dates of manufacture and unit the garment was issued to from markings in the clothing.THE book on the subject.Any WW2 uniform buff,tank modeller,or student of the German armed forces MUST have this in your library.

EMT Field Guide is a great tool for the EMT. I have used it in the field. It is compact, water resistant, easy to read and is laid out so you can find critical data fast! It has life saving information at your finger tips. Every EMT should have one.

This little spiral notebook fits easily in your pocket and is full of helpful information for practicing emts such as drug names and what they are for, pictures and discriptions of EKG rhythms, the glasgow coma scale, and discriptions of other things you might find in the field. I highly recommend this book to all emts.

Just as the title says. In New York, we have EMT-B, AEMT-I, AEMT-CC, and EMT-P. AEMT-CC (my level) is more like the NREMT-I. But I have found much information I could use is not in there. 12-lead EKGs and many drugs are a good example. For a basic, it's much more than you need. It may be good for review, but it's a little much for reference in the field. The guide also could use much more room where the protocols are listed to change them to your own.

I actually worked with the author and in the places that are mentioned in the book!! This book is great and everyone should read it!!

I worked at the actual hospital setting used in this story. Brought back some great memories and was fun to try and figure out the places that names were changed slightly!

I am an EMT (soon to be medic) who just started working on the night shift a couple months ago. It was an eye opener to get call after call for overdoses and to see the variety of drugs used. This guide helped me in determining which drugs could cause potential damage and at what doses. About half of the guide is a large list of prescription meds and there drug class. Next is a section explaining different drug classes (corticosteroids, benzos, narcotics, and so on). In these sections it gives a list of drugs that fit in the class, the effects of an overdose on that drugs, the toxicology, and what signs and symptoms might be present in a person who overdosed on that drug. The next section is "Clinical Differentials". It starts with the signs and symptoms and helps you identify what drugs are capable of causing the symptom. The guide also gives minimum lethal dosages of many drugs (for a 150 lb. person). It explains the dangers and lethal dosages of various abused substances. It has a list of antidotes to certain substances. That is just the basics of this guide and there is a lot more. I am very happy with the buy and got a lot more than I was expecting. My only worry is that it is going to get worn out very quickly sitting in pocket for 12 hour shifts. Still highly recommended.

The EMS Medication Pocket Field Guide by Dillman is a monster in comparison to the LaSage ALS EMS Field Guide. It's nearly twice as thick and a touch wider (7/8" thick x 3 1/4" wide x 6 1/4" (including spiral which is 1 3/16" diameter) vs. LaSage at (<7/16 thick x 3 wide x 5 5/8" tall). Dillman's is too big to make it into my uniform shirt pocket where the LaSage fits acceptably.
However, it has listings for roughly twice the prescription meds (~3400 vs. 1600) and a much heavier focus on toxicology. Half of the guide (113 of 207 pages) is devoted to the prescription meds, and it is in the same style as LaSage except that there is no mention of generic names in the trade name listings, and vice-versa. About 60 pages are devoted to description of the different drug classes. There's a nice pharmacological differentials section that lists potential pharmacological causes for different SxS, as well as other perks such as a slightly more thorough lab value section. This makes a great supplement to LaSage. Contrary to what you might guess from the title, there's no generic formulary section (which in my opinion is good given the supplementary role that this guide fills).
They put some time into creating this, and it was a worthwhile purchase. Hopefully in future versions they will make it more compact, taking out a lot of the unused white space, and do little things such as round the corners, improve the indexing some, and add cross referencing between trade and generic names, all of which I'd be willing to pay a touch more for. In summary, if you are at all frustrated by the incompleteness of the drug listings or the lack of toxicology in LaSage, Dillman's is a valuable guide.

I would recommend this book to anybody who needs a survey level knowledge of MMS/SMS. I think it also has value for developers who want to better understand the whole ecosystem and not just their more narrow area of expertise. The quality of the descriptions were excellent, particulary when tables were used to simplify and contrast the relevant messaging profiles and specifications. If I had one complaint, it was that a bit too much detail was provided on the evolution of the standards, rather than using those pages to provide more use cases and detailed flow charts.

Don't know what mobile messaging is about ? Read the first chapter and you will feel more comfortable about it ! You're an engineer in mobile communications but you lack expertise in EMS and MMS ? Go for this book !

To put it shortly, Le Bodic's book is first an excellent introduction to mobile messaging and then turns into a great reference manual for all those who work in this promising field. It is a must have !

I particularly liked the way he turned the boring "standardization" stuff into clear figures and tables. Le Bodic made 3GPP litterature accessible and that was quite a challenge !!

I really enjoy this book. It is not a basic spanish book, but it is designed to supplement any education in the spanish language. I appreciate the focus on healthcare! Excellent transaction.

Have this, didn't use it..can't imagine popping open a book in front of a patient and reading a line from a book. I think these books are useless in major hospitals. If you're in a community hospital this may be of use since more and more people are less willing to translate out of fear of a lawsuit.
How about a book "Essencial Ingles por los pacientes?"

I cannot honestly imagine any beginner learning medical Spanish from this book (I'm well aware I could be wrong). However, I recommend it heartily for professionals who have studied general and/or medical Spanish, but don't speak the language fluently, as it makes a very good reference tool for expanding your medical vocabulary in specialized areas. Because the topics are grouped and contextually expressed as questions and basic likely answers, it is more useful than a simple dictionary. I would agree with the reviewer who said the phrases are a mixture of highly complex (and formal) structures with simpler ones.

The grammar topics, in turn, are probably not sufficiently detailed for a beginner, but they would make good refreshers for those who vaguely remember studying, say, the imperfect tense, but don't remember what it's for and don't want an entire review lesson or just a list of forms. It helps if you have enough exposure to Spanish to recognize that the English "translations" of the phrases aren't always exact.

The cultural topics are extremely useful, more so than many newer books. They go far beyond the usual superficial stuff I've seen again and again, discussing such cross-cultural topics as ideas of honor and how this relates to privacy concerns. The vocabulary, too, includes useful tables such as "common children's terms" (the equivalents for "tummy" etc.). In addition to its use for personal review and study, I can see it being used and assigned as part of an advanced practical medical Spanish course offered as a followup to broader beginner and intermediate studies.

There are at least three books on the market for health care workers who wish to learn enough spanish to help their Latino patients. I have all three and think that this is the best one. The others have many dialogues and phrases that are simply unrealistic and would never need to be known by a nurse or a doctor. You end up wasting your time learning phrases that you will never use. This book (be sure to get the cassettes also as they have all of the essential phrases so you can practice your pronunciation) has words and phrases which mirror reality. This is information you can really use. It is amazing how much you can pick up with just a few hours of study. Well worth the price!

The book was disapointing. Material is not organized by the level of difficulty. Very simple sentences and phrases are placed next to gramaticly advanced ones.
"Grammar notes" provide a few very basic grammar rules and are inadequate for the level of gramatical dificulty of many sentences.
The majority of the patient interview questions and recomended phrases are either irrelevant or simply inappropriate.
Buy this book if you want to learn the names of the body parts in Spanish, but do not expect much else of it.

I thought this book was very imformative and helped me understand how I could use my mobile phone in other ways. Certainly the wireless companies do not come anywhere close to properly educating people about other uses for the phone then calling. Thank you.

I have always been intrigued with text messaging, but now I actually understand how it all works. This is an excellent book to learn a lot about wireless networks and all of the nuances of this new type of communications.

Texting is very much demystified for me. I can't wait to try all of the different types of services and capabilities that there is out there.

Well worth the money.

I was disappointed that this book included practically nothing on the actual SMSC handshaking and protocols, nor about actual SMS, EMS, or MMS specifications, etc.. The book seems geared very much towards management types who are trying to decide whether or not to implement mobile messaging in their business strategy. The history of SMS and case studies of successful text messaging business implementations get focus. It is not a practical reference for an actual developer and provides next to nothing in technical information.

This book was written in a hurry to catch the SMS wave and it stinks from it. Many chapters were written by different people with different styles of writing, some more eloquent than others. Consequenty it makes for bad reading.

It contains numerous inaccuracies and extensive reptition. Clearly nobody did a proper job editing this book in its entirety to create a common style of writing or at a minium, technical and commercial accuracy. Donald J. Longueuil did himself a disservice by putting his name to this.

Each of the authors has their own bias (based upon who they work for) and this comes out clearly in the book. Thiis book esentially becomes a series of sales pitches, rather than a truely independant overview of the SMS/EMS/MMS market.

All in all very disappointing and a complete waste of money.

It also contains a great deal of useful information on mobile payment services.

This book was a life-saver and a wallet-saver. We are retired and on a budge, but still like to remember our neighbors, the postman, doctors, service people - all who are kind to us during the year - for Christmas. The recipes in this book help us do that. And I scored a bunch of half-priced mugs after Christmas this year to save for next year!

I really like this book. This book has a lot of easy-to-make recipes. You make the dry mixes and put them in plastic bags and put them in the mug. Just decorate the mug and you have beautiful gifts. I made the Pecan Pie mix and tried it out. It was delicious. You just make and bake in the mug. This book has a lot of great recipes to make up for gift-giving or craft shows.

I purchased all four Mug'em books. They all have some really neat ideas, but be warned that what you give away does not include all the necessary ingredients. With some of them the recipient only needs to add simple things like water and other common household ingredients. Some require the addition of small amounts of things most people don't normally keep in their house and probably wouldn't purchase just for the small quantity needed. Other items require the recipient to add so many things that you might as well have not given the gift to begin with.

I suggest you do a search online for free postings of similar gifts to give in a mug, or purchase the Gifts in a Jar books.

It was close to Christmas, and super fast shipping. I got all my mugs done in time for the party. What a great door prize!

This book is used as the basic text in a graduate seminar on
DAE's. So far the participants find this book very useful.
It is highly readable and meets the need of both basic and advanced
study of DAE's covering both theoretical and numerical techniques for
solving DAE's with examples from control problems. There are exercises
to test the readers' knowledge; these exercises are not difficult but very helpful for the understanding of the material.
Compared with other texts this book includes more recent results
in DAE. This book is highly recommended.

I found this text to be a great resource for assisting me in teaching our volunteers a state-mandated EVOC course. Brady has published quality books for years and this is no exception.