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Allied health series (Meridian Education Corporation) Baby care workshop Complete new releases curriculum library 2006 Cyber sense series Family & consumer sciences collection Gunther's ER Preventative parenting series (Cambridge educational (Firm)) The Wide Angle Collection: Human Stories, Global IssuesSummary: Knowing what to do until medical assistance arrives is what first aid is all about. This video will prepare viewers to respond safely in emergency situations. Along with CPR and treating for shock, the program shows how to respond to minor injuries such as cuts, burns, sprains, and strains; how to recognize and care for heat and cold injuries; what to do in case of poisoning, bites, or stings;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program offers comprehensive guidance in classifying and responding to athletic injuries. Viewers learn how to apply the RICER technique in managing soft tissue injuries (such as sprains, skin abrasions, lacerations, and blisters) and deal with hard tissue injuries (like fractures and dislocations) through the TOTAPS and DRABC methods. The video features informative dramatizations,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program is designed to show people without health care training how best to respond to an emergency before Emergency Medical Services arrives. The video covers the use of gloves and other barriers to prevent disease transmission; checking an accident victim for an open airway, breathing, and circulation; clearing an obstructed airway; controlling bleeding and managing shock; dealing with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Dialing 9-1-1 is simple in itself, but few people are truly ready for a siren-filled ride to the emergency room. This program will help viewers prepare for such a crisis, providing detailed information on when to call 9-1-1, how best to speak with the dispatcher, what to do while waiting for an ambulance, and what to expect upon arrival at the ER. Expert guests include Emergency Medical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: What harm could come from sitting leisurely at the computer, chatting with online pals? Unfortunately, many young people who spend hours in chat rooms or post sensitive information on the Internet have little or no idea of the risks involved. This program warns students about how vulnerable they are whenever they venture into the cyber realm-even when they think they're among "friends."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Common Childhood Injuries is an excellent program that teaches how to care for minor emergencies and how to prevent serious ones from getting worse before medical help arrives. Part one covers coping with emergencies; allergic reactions; bites and stings; bone, joint, and muscle injuries; and burns. Part two covers cardiopulmonary arrest; choking; cuts; scrapes; abrasions; drowning; electrical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: How should the news media prepare for and cope with a potential bioterrorist attack? In this Fred Friendly Seminar, Professor Michael Dorf of the Columbia University School of Law and 12 panelists role-play a hypothetical scenario that begins in a city hospital where a spike in a flu-like illness causes the ER staff to confront a chilling possibility: that it is not the flu at all, but...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Fatalities are the most tragic outcome of auto accidents, but in societal terms, injuries involving irreversible brain damage may exact a higher toll. In this program, a team of the auto industry's leading researchers reconstruct an actual side-impact crash to explore what happens to the human brain in a collision. Specialized crash-test dummies, high-speed X-ray cameras, and computer...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Nicks and cuts, minor burns, bruises, abrasions-more accidents occur in the home than anywhere else. To reduce the number and severity of injuries, people need to understand the three P's: prevention, preparation, and practice. In addition to giving plenty of information on how to deal with common household dangers, this video stresses the importance of thinking ahead to eliminate hazards...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Nothing can be more distressing to a new parent than not knowing how to help when baby is sick. This program gives clear demonstrations of how to take an infant's temperature using a digital thermometer and how to measure and give prescription medication.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Emergency situations can occur at any time, and an untried health care trainee may be among the first to respond-in some cases, perhaps, the only source of aid available. This program will help medical support personnel build their skills and know-how in treating the injured. In addition to the three main principles of emergency care, the video presents field-tested strategies for dealing with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Evoking the awesome power of nature's toxins, this program presents case studies of people who have survived near-fatal onslaughts from some of the deadliest poisons on Earth. It also shows how modern medical technology is turning the tables to use poisons in the fight against disease. Employing sophisticated animation and photography, the film explores ways in which poison can enter the body...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program is designed to help health care workers prepare themselves-at work, at home, and in the community at large-to respond to bioterrorism attacks and other large-scale emergencies. By watching this video, viewers will become familiar with different types of mass-casualty disasters and various kinds of personal protective equipment. They will also gain an understanding of facility and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Suffering from an acute shortage of doctors, Mozambique launched a bold grassroots initiative to combat its high maternal death rate: the training of midwives in surgical delivery-related techniques. In this program, Wide Angle reports from the region with an inspiring profile of a female midwife-in-training and tracks her progress as she learns to counter life-threatening complications of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: First, call 911. This program shows viewers how to respond to common medical emergencies while waiting for professional help to arrive. With demonstrations and commentary from an experienced paramedic throughout, each section describes trauma situations or symptoms of distress and the best way to address them. The video also includes relevant advice on topics such as giving yourself the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: As Dr. Gunther von Hagens makes clear in this program, a shortage of blood can mean insufficient oxygen reaches the major organs-usually resulting in shock and organ failure. The program opens with a graphic bleeding demonstration, re-creating injury to blood vessels in the hand of a cadaver. Von Hagens then examines the consequences of blood loss in the body's vital organs by creating...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Child safety: the subject that most often keeps parents awake at night. This ABC News program features a child safety expert who helps parents identify their children's susceptibility to predators and abductors. As the program's candid camera-style scenarios unfold-with the participation of actors who demonstrate the ploys used by potential attackers-astonished parents watch as their daughters...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Beyond the immediate risks to a patient's life, doctors must also identify other bodily damage. In this program, Dr. Gunther von Hagens examines the kinds of injuries that can lead to permanent disability if not quickly addressed. Dissecting a female body donor who died after falling from a window, von Hagens locates fractures throughout her skeleton, explains how bones break, and bends a human...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Mass casualty emergencies can take many forms, from natural disasters to terrorist attacks. These events affect entire communities and bring about a surge of victims, overwhelming the capacities of first responders (police, fire, and EMS) and hospital first receivers. This program addresses the main components of the JCAHO mandate requiring all hospitals to implement emergency management...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: With the growth of America’s urban populations has come an increased demand for medical first responders—most notably, the emergency medical technician. This program guides students through the duties of the EMT-Basic and EMT-Paramedic, the skills and personality traits both require, and the financial and personal advantages that these positions offer. Featuring interviews with veterans of the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: A parking lot at night, a lonely cash machine, a questionable Internet chat room: for muggers, stalkers, and other criminals, these are ideal hunting grounds for potential victims. Filmed in a compelling question-and-answer format involving law enforcement officers and a diverse group of adults, this no-nonsense program suggests safety protocols to use with cars, ATMs, elevators, the Internet,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: It was an otherwise ordinary evening when a gunman walked into a pub and shot an innocent man seven times at point-blank range with a Makarov semiautomatic. After re-creating the crime, this program tracks the victim from the scene of the shooting, to surgery, to intensive care, to recovery and ongoing therapy for PTSD as it addresses the treatment of his wounds through expert commentary...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The human brain suffers irreversible damage if deprived of oxygen for even a few minutes-a fact Dr. Gunther von Hagens demonstrates in this program, utilizing human cadavers. Simulating an artery injury to illustrate oxygen depletion through blood loss, von Hagens then focuses on problems affecting the trachea, the top priority for ER doctors. Von Hagens inserts an endoscope into his own throat...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009