Casualty Officer's Handbook

Casualty Officers

Triage decisions of United Kingdom police firearms officers using a multiple-casualty scenario paper exercise.

INTRODUCTION British police officers authorized to carry firearms may need to make judgments about the severity of injury of individuals or the relative priority of clinical need of a group of injured patients in tactical and non-tactical situations. Most of these officers receive little or no medical training beyond basic first aid to enable them to make these clinical decisions. Therefore, th...

HANDBOOK OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND SCHOOL HEALTH: A guide for Medical Officers of Schools

SCHOOL HEALTH: A guide for Medical Officers of Schools. By the Medical Officers of Schools Association. Fourteenth Edition. (Pp. xii+ 141. 15s). London: J. & A. Churchill, 1969. THIS is the fourteenth edition of a handbook that first appeared in 1885 issued by the Medical Officers of Schools Association, because, to quote the preface to the first addition, ". . . claiming immediate attention wa...

The Sanitary Inspector's Handbook: A Manual for Sanitary Inspectors and Other Public Health Officers

The Sanitary Inspectors' Handbook. A Manual for Sanitary Inspectors and Other Executive Public Health Officers

MANUAL FOR SANITARY INSPECTORS AND OTHER EXECUTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS. ?By H. H. Clay, F.R.San.I., F.I.S.E. With an Introduction by W. W. Jameson, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H. (Lond.), etc. Second Edition. 1936. H. K. Lewis and Company, Limited, London. Pp. xxli plus 432, with 95 Illustrations. Price, 15s. This book is divided into 31 well selected chapters (with 95 illustrations) covering ...